Opening of the exhibition of the artist Malgorzata Paszko
Malgorzata Paszko was born in Warsaw in 1956. In 1975, Warsaw School of Fine Arts, then Paris School of Fine Arts. In 1979, at the age of 23, she was exhibited by the gallery Le dessin directed by Claire Burrus at FIAC. Many exhibitions took place afterwards; at the Camomille gallery and the Fred Lanzenberg gallery in Brussels, at the Koralewski gallery in Paris. Followed by other locations in France, Germany, Greece, Poland and Beirut by the gallery Mogabgab. In 1986-1987, the artist was a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome. In 1989 she won the Lacourière prize for all her gavures. Malgorzata Paszko is part of the revisited landscape movement. Each artist acquires what can be called the skin of his painting or his own texture. Malgorzata appropriated a technique that consists in using an unprepared canvas and a very diluted paint that crosses the support. And in doing so, the nature she describes is all the more moving, changing. The will is now to transcribe what is most important: light. The new works mark a new stage. Not that the artist would like to move away from what must be considered a certain figuration, but she takes a step back with regard to the subject. Whether it is distant landscapes or close-ups, it is light. The skies are vaporous, diaphanous, sometimes threatening. We evoke the light of the north that painters love. Landscapes, areas of heavy shade, foliage, undergrowth accentuate the play of shade and light. And, of course, everything related to water and reflections. Light split when the sky is reflected in the pond, so that this light eats the entire surface of the canvas.