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Le monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin

Monika Sosnowska, "Stairway"

I regret that I was not allowed to

film inside the gallery, it has "

no interest for the artist" Monika

Sosnowska , according to the

words of the representatives of

Capitain Petzel Gallery.

I took pictures through the

double-glazed window and I

apologize to the artist for the

blurred aspect of her work

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Monika Sosnowska (born 1972 in

Ryki, Poland) studied at the

Painting Department of the

Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan

(1993–1998), and the

Rijksakademie van Beeldende

Kunsten in Amsterdam (1999–

2000. In 2003 she received the

Bâloise Prize at Art Basel as well

as the Polityka's Passport award

given by Poland’s most

prestigious weekly

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Monika Sosnowska lives in

Warsaw. She studied in the

painting department at Poznan,

but during her final years at the

academy she found that the

‘painting started to escape her

canvas.’[1] She began to create

works that played with both two-

dimensional painting and three-

dimensional space, finally giving

up the canvas altogether and

instead using the space itself as

a sort of 3-D painting.

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Monika Sosnowska treats space

as a medium for her works,

always designing projects to fit

into a specific space. Often she

modifies pre-existent

architecture, transforming the

physical space into mental space

and playing with the viewer’s

perceptions. She has explained:

‘I am especially interested in the

moments when architectural

space begins to take on the

characteristics of mental space.

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In 2003 she took part in the 50th

Venice Biennale, contributing

The Corridor to the Arsenale

exhibition ‘Clandestine’, curated

by Francesco Bonami.

Sosnowska created an

architectural intervention that was

also an optical illusion. Her

institutional-looking corridor

appeared to stretch on a long

distance and it was only upon

entering it that the viewer realized

that the space became narrower

and lower making it impossible to

reach the doors at the end and

remain upright.

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In 2007 Sosnowska represented

Poland at the 52nd International

Venice Biennale, presenting ‘1:1’

which crammed a bent fragment

of modern architecture into the

Polonia Pavilion, a 1930s

building. Sosnowska wrote: ‘It

should look as if two buildings

have been constructed in the

same space and have to live in

symbiosis, or rather to parasite

on each other. To fight, or rather

to wrestle with each other. In

reality my intention is to create a

surreal and impossible situation.

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Other major international

exhibitions by Sosnowska include

a solo show at New York's

Museum of Modern Art in 2006,

for which she used the existing

space to create a three-

dimensional sculpture of

geometric forms; ‘Loop’ at

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in

2007, a Moebius strip-like

architectural intervention; ‘Monika

Sosnowska, Andrea Zittel.

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Other major international

exhibitions by Sosnowska include

’ at Schaulager, Basel, in 2008;

and ‘Untitled’ for K21

Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung

Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf,

a de Chirico-esque response to

the extraordinary architecture and

history of the museum, on display

until 15 April 2012.

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“Monika Sosnowska's works are

in continuous dialogue with

modernism: with its utopian

ideology as well as with the

social and political ambitions it

became a sign for. Her particular

focus is Constructivism, which

turned its gaze to architecture as

the field that pioneered

technological progress.”

Source: Nirith NelsonLe monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin, Monika Sosnowska

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”Her works relate to the Socialist

construction that was prevalent in

Communist states, a building

style that produced the

environment she herself grew up

in, and was shaped by politically-

influenced regulations. Over the

decades, this style of

construction turned into an

expression of stagnation, but by

the time the resulting harm was

evident, it was no longer possible

to destroy the mega-structures

that housed as many as a

thousand families with no options

for relocation.”

Source: Nirith Nelson

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“The circular motion, which is

integral both to the initial,

inspirational object and to the

action of squashing, creates what

Adam Budak called Sosnowska's

"performative installations." The

objects in these installations are

characterized by an inherent

dynamic force which engenders

the sculpture's unique

individuality.”

Source: Nirith NelsonLe monde de l’art selon E.T. Mars 2014 Berlin, Monika Sosnowska

(Capitain Petzel gallery)