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    Agora Gold and Black Bar Stool by Pepe Albargues
    Quantity
    1,012
    Sculpted Sofa, Albane Salmon
    Quantity
    7,150
    Frédéric Saulou "Subtile" Coffee Table
    Quantity
    11,250
    Light Suspension, Burning Ego by Wim Verzantvoort
    Quantity
    5,890
    Bronze Triple Tray, Signed Arno Declercq
    Quantity
    3,410
    Archimede, Sculpted Lighting by Jérôme Pereira
    Quantity
    35,981
    Metropolis Brass Sconce by Jan Garncarek
    Quantity
    3,080
    Borghese Coffee Table Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
    Quantity
    5,850
    Un Beso En El Mar Marble Sculpted Stool by Pietro Franceschini
    Quantity
    10,320
    Unique Signed Table by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    4,400
    V-Easy Chair in Iroko Wood by Arno Declercq
    Quantity
    10,560
    A-Symmetry, Brown Marble Side Table, Frédéric Saulou
    Quantity
    6,500
    Calypso, Light Pendant by Morghen Studio
    Quantity
    6,000
    Twosidestory Bowl by Lisette Rützou
    Quantity
    640
    Sublight, Light Suspension by Roland de Mul
    Quantity
    4,400
    Alba Triple Wall Angle Light XL by Contain
    Quantity
    1,870
    Hasta Brass Hanging Lamp by Jan Garncarek
    Quantity
    6,470
    Oyster Wall-Ceiling Mounted Midnight Blue, Carla Baz
    Quantity
    4,070
    Iceberg Marble Lamp by Carlos Aucejo
    Quantity
    12,320
    Solid Formations no 5 Sculptural Lamp by Stine Mikkelsen
    Quantity
    3,388
    Pearl Necklace Pendant by Ludovic Clément d’Armont
    Quantity
    36,300
    Lawless Collectible Large Bench, Evan Fay
    Quantity
    10,780
    V-Dining Chair, Arno Declercq
    Quantity
    5,324
    Luminous Shapes no 2 Lamp by Stine Mikkelsen
    Quantity
    3,069
    Unique Brass Bottle, Hand-Sculpted and Signed by Lukasz Friedrich
    Quantity
    1,155
    Vanity Sculpted Vase by Dessislava Madanska
    Quantity
    1,760
    Solid Walnut Work Desk by Attune Design
    Quantity
    6,149
    Unique Signed Table by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    9,900
    Unique Signed Console by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    9,900
    Alba Top Table Lamp by Contain
    Quantity
    1,020
    Oyster Wall Mounted Electric Blue, Carla Baz
    Quantity
    3,190
    Poulie, Sculpted Lighting by Jérôme Pereira
    Quantity
    45,221
    Bronze Vide Poche by Henry Wilson
    Quantity
    528
    Unique Signed Console by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    2,860
    Set of 2 Dual Love Potion Bottle by Mark Sturkenboom
    Quantity
    11,100
    Total:
    322,467

    Language of art as expression of everyday observations

    Language of art as expression of everyday observations

    By Ewelina Makosa

    Being a good observer of surrounding environment is crucial in the process of creating art.
    Art to me is a reflection of feelings and sensitivity, things which happen around us.
    Neither positive, calming, beautiful or tough, difficult, often socially involved topics which can not go without notice. Sometimes I go back to the times of the childhood. It is a valuable source of inspirations.

    Through my art I express emotions and tell a certain story which captures elusive and emotional moments of my life. This, I can express best through various media.

    When creating the hand-painted screen in collaboration with Jan Garncarek for Gallery Philia my emotions were totally positive and pure. They influenced my artistic activities when I was a graduate student of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. My art at that time was based on calming, positive feelings which I wanted to “infect” the viewer with. I was always enchanted by the face of nature and, how beautiful and dangerous it can be at the same time. I was interested in the way it affects us. My paintings are intended to convey emotions through a minimalist approach to space or landscape. I may say that they express a wish for intimacy with something unknowable – whether because it’s too vast or too far away or too formless. Decorative marks, form and figuration were not important for me, but rather expression of emotions through colour and gesture.

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    Over time my artistic direction evolved. I decided to express social issues concentrated on human beings. It was 2013 when I first started experimenting with large scale paintings, followed by photography and artifacts. The field of my artistic research became corporeality, traces of existence and posthuman memory in connection to analysis of forms of its content. First, I created painting projects that examined the experience of entropy of visible matter. The fascination with the issue of corporality is associated with both the symbolic capacity and sensual extent of the human body, as well as its usefulness. Issues such as fragility of existence, transience and finally death were my main point of interest.

    Currently, my artistic activities are a story of cultural and existential transformation through the prism of the disappearance of the world of traditional objects and tools. I am focusing on a very current topic, which I define as the “crisis of the traces”. That is the irreversible disappearance of tradition and forms of intergenerational communication. This communication was once full of sensual sensations and experiences. Now, we can notice the loss of all the richness of virtual and tactile diversity of the past century. We become posthumans entangled in technological everyday life, unconsciously rejecting some of humans natural habits. This is especially visible now when we are locked down at our homes deprived of the natural forms of communication with other people.

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