Tuesday, July 2

Open House at Studio Voltaire 28-29th June

 Open Studio public event weekend In Studio Voltaire on the 28th June 6-9pm.



Studio Voltaire and Gasworks have teamed up on a
special Open House weekend. For two days artists at
Studio Voltaire and Gasworks opened their workspaces
to the public providing a unique opportunity to meet
resident artists and explore their work. Open House
also presented a number of events including guided
tours, talks, live events and special exhibitions. Studio
Voltaire’s yard also hosted a selection of stalls over the
weekend including Clapham Books and La Grotta Ices.



 Thank you so much to all visitors. It was a great success.

www.studiovoltaire.org
www.gasworks.org.uk









Beata Kozlowska, Vortex Unfoding #2, photographic  print, 2013.








Beata Kozlowska, Vortex unfolding. photographic print, 2013.







Beata Kozlowska, Outer orchestration, drawing on paper, 2013.









Monday, May 27

New work 2013 - drawing and installation







Beata Kozlowska, Untitled # 5, installation, mdf wood,
 frame, tape, drawing



Beata Kozlowska, Post-order..ly, ink on paper






Beata Kozlowska, Over-composition, installation detail





Beata Kozlowska, Onto- order , installation, wood, mixed media





Beata Kozlowska, Higher orchestration, drawing on paper

Tuesday, March 26

Post-production in imaginary (orchestrated) world




                                                               Beata Kozlowska, Post-production in imaginary
                                                                   (orchestrated) world, Studio Voltaire, 2012




This is the footage for the newest experimentation with post-object video based on existing and superimposed  object.

The work is based on constructed objects/sculpture and become prompted by the necessity to work with geometry, pure form and ongoing 'investigation' or rather  improvisation based on unconscious references to modernist aesthetics...

Blackness or rather visual silence is a comment on/homage to Malevich's  Black Square conjoined with a purity of Beethoven's Symphony no 3  .. and it is providing a platform for critical and fleeting moments of desirability and fixation on the objects..

Work is designed to be exhibited as a wall projection...









South London Women Artists group show at the Stephen Lawrence Centre





TENDER
39 Brookmill Road, London SE8 4HU
04-28 March 2013

SLWA is proud to exhibit at the award-winning centre during the Stephen Lawrence Centre Women’s Week. Specially commissioned works on paper will be on show and all available to buy, with 50% of the sales revenue to be donated to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. The exhibition is in the drop-in gallery located in the foyer, during the centre’s regular opening hours.
An entire week’s activities are programmed to take place 4 – 8 March. Doreen Lawrence has extended a personal invitation to everyone to attend the free events, including workshops, pampering sessions, lectures, advice sessions and the Women’s Awards 2013.
Tender: ‘A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.’
Private view: Tuesday 05 March 2013. 6 - 8 pm
The Tender exhibition continues until 28 March.

Monday, October 1

Open House - Open art Studio Voltaire 5-6th October

Open Studio Voltaire


I am delighted to invite you to the OPEN HOUSE - open studio in  Studio Voltaire on the 5th-6th October 2012. 

I will be showing my new work and experimentation  (studio 6) along with other Studio's artists.




OPEN HOUSE:

Friday 5 October  2012, 6 – 9pmSaturday 6 October  2012, 12 – 6pmFree, no booking requiredFor two days the artists at Studio Voltaire will open their workspaces to the public bringing a unique opportunity to view the diverse range of artworks that are produced within the 30 studios onsite. The event will also include a series of talks, screenings and special exhibitions.Facebook RSVP




 Beata Kozlowska, Homage to modenism- expect far and beyond..., 
installation detail,  Studio Voltaire, 2012






 Beata Kozlowska, Homage to modenism- expect far and beyond...,
installation view,  Studio Voltaire, 2012






Beata Kozlowska, The red miles of wool- procession..installation detail,
studio Voltaire, 2012




Beata Kozlowska, Glimpse of the New ...coming, drawing, pen and tape on paper,
Studio Voltaire, 2012





















Friday, September 23

Constructing the New Order

Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, Outdoor installation view, Aspex

Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, Outdoor view, Aspex

 
The second week of my work became more settled , I gradually started using materials I chose in the first week to have a good process of figuring out/ putting elements together in the new order….  My work seems to be very controlled in many cases. But this control is derived from utopian aspiration to Harmony and balance…

The first series of work I called ‘The New Eldorado’ as a reference to pop culture and the myth built around the golden age of prosperity. Golden plastic lid, purity of blue, orange and White… Colour is another indication of unifying and enabling symbiosis within the object.  I was also experimenting with already existing natural ‘presupposition’ of brought objects. I use them in assemblages, mini- installation, Solaris, with mirrors, metal bars, round shapes of the records, lampshades…



Beata Kozlowska, Solaris, installation details, Aspex




Beata Kozlowska, Late One Evening, Aspex
Beata Kozlowska, Late One Evening, Detail, Aspex

 
The elements are assembled and constructed in a particular way, they may resemble maquette of the city, dysfunctional furniture or imaginary design subliminally referencing modernism, Post-Duchampian tradition of ready-made, interior design of Bauhaus and domesticity…the references are endless, the objects are open like a text for further interpretation…The Game is never-ceasing, established rules of having limitation within plurality was a great experiment…


Beata Kozlowska, Neue Sachlichkeit, Aspex

 

Beata Kozlowska, Neue Sachlichkeit, installation detail, Aspex


Beata Kozlowska, Neue Sachlichkeit, installation detail, Aspex

 
 
Beata Kozlowska, Volant piece upon me, Aspex


Beata Kozlowska, Volant piece upon me, Aspex

 
 
At the end of the week I was tempted to create ironic harmony, merely maintaining a balance within the assembled objects. Orange mini columns, reminiscent of negative furniture, are fragilly supporting each other balancing on the red string…
The process of creating my work was so similar to the process of my usual art practice. I found the project relieving and inspiring.  Also I had a chance to collaborate/ or rather interact not only with fellow artists ( Nicola Dale, Jason Tylor, Andy Parker), but also with enthusiastic audience.


'Working Title'- experimental project in Aspex gallery in Portsmouth

Beata Kozlowska, After the Fall, Aspex


Beata Kozlowska, Solaris, installation detail, Aspex Gallery


Beata Kozlowska, Broadening the View‘Working Title, Aspex
 




On the first day of my arrival to Aspex gallery on Sunday, I was impressed by the good choice of brought ‘public’ objects.

Following my intuition, I started immediately selecting wide range of objects, part- elements, prefabricates….
The selection of elements is purely improvisational and rather dictated by aesthetic symbiosis within the assemblage.

 

Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, Aspex


Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, detail, Aspex



My first installation is deliberately limited to round shapes, lines, reflection of stripes of randomly selected elements. It became an intriguing  Game for me as an artist and the viewer. I intend to make links between disparate elements and materials with unconscious desire to find HARMONY And CLARITY in unwanted/ rejected/ negative… The necessity to construct a new ORDER based on existing, may have some inner roots in deconstruction similar to metaphor of ‘reborning the Phoenix from Ashes’ for the sake  of clarifying and relieving…



Beata Kozlowska, AnneXing, Aspex (studio view work in progress)


Beata Kozlowska, Untitled C, Aspex