Barbara Palka Winek — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
Diploma in 1983. Her painting is characterized by searching and experimenting with form and painting matter of the picture. She works in cycles that complement each other and, as a result, create a full scale of her feelings and experiences.
She exhibited several times in Paris, London and New York (Agora Gallery,
Ward-Nasse Gallery, Brodway Gallery, NY Art Fair). She took part in the Florence Biennale, London Biennale, and Tokyo Biennale.
Recent exhibitions:
2018 - TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ARTFAIR, Tokyo
2019 - INTERNATIONALE EXPOSITION, Grimandi Gallery, New York, INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, ITSLIQUID GROUP, Venice, WOMAN'S ESSENCE,
The Woman In The Contemporary Art, Biennale, Venice, THE BODY LANGUAGE, ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION, Venice, "SPIKELESS CACTUS",
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER EXHIBITIONS, BURN-IN GALLERY, Vienna, ART IN MONACO YACHT SHOW, Montecarlo.
Major awards:
Artis Laudabilis - The Europa Authentica Cultural Organization, Budapest, 2009, Oscar della Cultura - Florence, 2014, Marco Polo International
Prize - Venice, 2015, Roma Imperiale International Prize - Rome, 2015, Sandro Botticelli Prize - Florence, 2015, Primo Delle Arti "Donato Bramante" - Rome, 2015, Laudato Magister Honoriscausa Della Biennale Internazionale D'Arte "Barocco Slaention - Accademia Italoa In Arte Nel Mondo, Brindisi, 2020.

Artist Statement

I think that each painting should make an impression.
The idea of the painting is important.
I want to show the transience of a moment closed in the plane of color and penetrating the matter through light. I try to show transcendence. I was done in cycles - Screens, Woman - Imago, Stream of time.
The topics are closed in cycles that I mentioned earlier, and Obsessions and Archetypes.
They are all current, they are not finished and new paintings are created in each of these cycles.
The woman was always the dominant topic. A sensual, reflexive or obsessive woman. A woman - a flower or a woman's metamorphosis. Over the years, this subject has undergone numerous transformations - female obsessions, sensuality, women flowers, women imago, archetypes of a woman.
I paint with oil and acrylic paints. For a long time I was looking for a transparent medium that would allow me to show the penetration of planes. A soft, transparent medium resembling a plasma.
After many years of work, it seems that I have achieved the goal - the fluidity and softness of biological forms combined with a hard, massively marked plane - the imagination of non-being (nonentity).

Website www.palkawinek.art.pl