Magdalena KUREK, In search of the lost Atlantis - Santorini, 2021.

Magdalena KUREK
In search of the lost Atlantis - Santorini, 2021.
oil on canvas, 115 x 75 cm
signed p. d. corner: 'M.KUREK'
signed and described on the reverse: 'MAGDALENA KUREK | In search of the lost Atlantis - Santorini | oil on canvas, putty | 2021 | 115 x 75 cm'.

Magdalena KUREK (born 1979) Graduate of High School of Fine Arts in Katowice , Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw , diploma in 2005 in painting inspired by archaeological excavations in France in the studio of Prof. P. Blazejewski and P. Pintal annex in graphic design under Prof. A. Basaj and multimedia under Prof. Kaniowski in and Postgraduate Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Diploma under Prof. A. Witkowski and Prof. M. Komorowska in 2012. Individual exhibitions at Teatr Współczesny , Teatr Polski in Wroclaw and Teatr Rozrywki in Chorzow. Participation in many group exhibitions, ( Silesian Museum) of painting, graphics and scenography. Collaborated with Anna Augustynowicz, Krzysztof Nazar, Marek Braun. Stage designer, animator of cultural and social activities. Author of the projects "Colorful Fantasies" with the youth from the Educational Centers and "With Art to You" cooperation as a guide to the museums of Wroclaw. Twice a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2008 and 2012. In oil works, the most important actor is light, which builds, dynamizes, contrasts the composition, determines the mood and transience of the moment. He draws inspiration from theater, film, song lyrics and travel. He appreciates experiments with texture, collage. In the viewer he wants to evoke reflection and a multiplicity of interpretations: "I create paintings with an open composition so that it plays out on the viewer's side - in the imagination."