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Double Q Gallery is pleased to present a duo exhibition featuring Wanda Czełkowska and Zuza Golińska. The exhibition brings together works by two Polish artists from two different generations and focuses on what are essentially definitive concepts in the 20th century evolution of material and mass-based sculpture, such as sculptural representation and abstraction, and the duality of mass and anti-mass.
Multidisciplinary artist Zuza Golińska (b. 1990) works primarily with sculpture and installation to create robust, spatial interventions that investigate the relationship between humans, public space, and architecture. Her practice is rooted in a variety of visual references from a kind of raw, brutalist post-industrial materiality to dystopian science fiction and pre-modernism. Inspired by the radical Arte Povera movement of the 1970s, her materials are often chosen as symbolic elements of gendered socio-political narrative around labour and industry, such as recycled steel from a shipyard in her hometown of Gdańsk.
Wanda Czełkowska (1930–2021) is one of the most important figures in Polish avant-garde art, yet her oeuvre has only recently begun to attract the attention of the international canon of art history. Her work – which remains largely unknown outside Poland unlike that of her contemporaries Alina Szapocznikow and Magdalena Abakanowicz – encompasses a variety of mediums: she produced sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, and photographs, although the elimination of the boundaries between different artistic forms and mediums was a characteristic feature of her work.