22 June 2012r. - 20 July 2012r.
Nautilus Gallery & Auction House
The exhibition of paintings and reliefs by Tamara Berdowska has been presented on 22 June–20 July 2012 in Nautilus Gallery & Auction House in Pijarska Street 5/2a in Kraków. The exhibition has been organised as a part of 6th European Congress of Mathematics - Kraków, 02 VII–07 VII 2012.
The latest series of Tamara Berdowska’s paintings, dated 2011 and 2012, is an extremely coherent collection of highly innovative geometric solutions that span the rich gamut of blues, toneddown greens and shiny whites. The paintings are untitled although the titles spring to every mind sensitive to their poetics suggestive of religious content. They lead imagination towards a hidden sanctuary, yet untouched by the rays of the sun, lit only by the cool glare of the paintings with their gently pulsating colours. All the works are symmetrical but differ in tensions and radiate in different directions. They build some thematic unity, in which we look for the beginning of a road to take us to the dominant feature; this may be The Top of the Holy Mountain or The Great Northern Star which we approach from the hidden Door of the Temple through the moving corridors of green rhombi. Next we are startled by the squeezing passages of oval rings. This arrangement offers a great number of possibilities yet I think that giving herself to the creative process the artist did not assume any solution, only unveiling an internal world, remote from anxiety, violent emotions or human passions. An ideal world built of nostalgia for clarity and peace. Tamara meditates by working on a painting, and the hours she devotes to it lead her deeper and deeper into other dimensions, often experienced by the Buddhists, who consciously take on the long efforts of daily meditations. All Tamara is interested in is painting. But in her private life she is filled with kind feelings for our Lesser Brothers. Looking at Tamara I often think she could wear the habit of Saint Francis: her love embraces the fragile creatures in need of care. She spares no effort for them, thinking not of herself, suppressing her ego, which is possibly why her art is so void of human passions, and as lofty and luminous as a moonlit night.
Janina Kraupe-Świderska, may 2012