Geometry of Emotion GDM Gallery in Ostrava

Geometry of Emotion: Meeting Polish Abstraction

The claim that the faces of abstraction know no boundaries is confirmed by the art created in this trend around the world. Abstraction is characterized by extraordinary formal freedom, limited only by the need to follow certain compositional rules. These apparent restrictions allow artists to manifest emotional states in a therapeutic way.

The exhibition "Geometry of Emotion: Meeting Polish Abstraction" presents works by Tamara Berdowska, Konrad Juściński, Michał Misiak, Kinga Popieli, Weronika Teplicka,
Małgorzata Widomska and Tadeusz Gustaw Wiktor. In their work, limited formal means become a carrier of internal tensions, which - often unconsciously - are transformed into expressive compositions. The feeling of self-examination, which arises in the viewer, plays the role of a kind of micro-portal where the reflections of the artist and the viewer meet.

The delicate, precisely applied lines on canvas by Michal Misiak and the tiny, optically rippling squares that build Tamara Berdowska's op-art compositions are immersed
in a meditative aura. Their structure promotes momentary concentration and introspection emotional.

In contrast, Konrad Juscinski's sensual, fluid forms, created from organic matter, are reminiscent of shapes familiar from the reality around us, although at the same time they function on a different level of meaning. The geometry of their internal structures is consciously imposed by the artist. In a similar vein operates Veronika Teplicka, whose linear cut elements deconstruct earlier meanings. Her works become a materialization of emotions related to personal experience and a reckoning with the past.

Kinga Popiela's work focuses on the performativity of the
painting gesture, the memory of the body and its expression in relation to space. Her paintings are testimony to the artist's fragmentary coexistence with matter in the creative act,
highlighting the intimate relationship between body and painting. The painterly gestures record the past on canvas, making the painting a carrier of the future - a lasting testimony of the time of its creation.

Transcendence, permeating both the image and non-image space, is an important motif in the work of Tadeusz Gustaw Wiktor. Through his works, based on the language of geometric abstraction, the artist aims to activate “pure gaze” in the viewer, creating a poly-pictorial effect. His realizations are the result of many years of study of the nature of art and philosophical reflections.

Małgorzata Widomska, on the other hand, uses motifs taken from external sources, which she reinterprets personally, reducing their original meanings. Her interest focuses on the potential of random visual impulses to initiate narratives and build memory traces. The process of constant image processing allows her to grasp the structure of experience, organizing it into a new analytical order.

“Geometry of Emotions” is not only a presentation of individual artistic attitudes, but also a reflection on the ways of expressing emotions, tensions and internal states by
means of forms devoid of narration. The exhibition at GDM Gallery will present a dozen works by representatives of contemporary Polish geometric art.