Magdalena Daniec
Graduated from the Art Institute at the Pedagogical University in Cracow. Diploma with honours in the painting studio in 2001. Her diploma series of 24 paintings, "Iconostasis" and another "Atlantis" (2005-2006), were sold in their entirety by the Space Gallery in Cracow, which represented the artist in the years 2001-2010. She is the winner of the main equivalent prize in the competition II Artistic Confrontations "Sacrum in Art" in Wadowice (2002). Her early paintings were discussed in Renata Rogozinska's book "Icon in the Art of the 20th Century" (2009).
Finalist of the 3rd All-Polish Leon Wyczółkowski Painting Competition in Bydgoszcz (2018), the International Painting Biennale in Chisinau (2017), and the 25th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin (2016). Participant of Art Fairs in Geneva, Madrid and Warsaw, among others. Author of nine solo exhibitions. Participant in several group exhibitions in Poland, Lebanon, Switzerland, Germany, Moldova and Spain.
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions:
Nostalgia - Epicentrum Gallery, Chełmek 2022
Northern Sky Weather Forecast - Mobo Art Gallery, Krakow 2021
Recycling of stories without a punch line - Zalubowski Gallery, within the framework of "Krakers", Krakow 2020
Partial Anhedonia - Pragaleria, Warsaw 2016
Selected group exhibitions:
Antigravity - BWA Gallery, Tarnów 2021
Eight Women - Conductor House Gallery, Częstochowa 2017
Art Now in Poland - Souk Arkwam, Bejrut 2011
Meta-Image - exhibition accompanying the 6th Philosophical Film Festival, Cracow 2011
"When painting I try to avoid literalism and choose understatement. I paint suggestions of landscapes, or events. Unreal images of the sky. Afterimages of places and indelible memories. Preceding 'something' signs, or traces left 'after'. I reject the presence of real representation and renounce figuration, but even so, I do not situate my paintings in the realm of abstraction. In my search for harmony, I narrow down the colour range of a painting, or a whole series of works. I suggest the subject of a painting by means of a title: but it is always only a hint for a possible multiplicity of interpretations.
In parallel with the paintings, small works on cardboard are created in my home studio. These are 'little pictures' that are particularly close to me. In them I combine elements of collage and techniques in oil, acrylic and crayon. I experiment with my own techniques. In these small works, I often do not abandon figuration. Fragments of landscape and figures appear in them. I choose some of these small works on cardboard as a starting point to create a large painting, they become an integral part of it glued to the canvas."
Magdalena Daniec
