Olga Czewska
"Mondi d'ombra. Memorie senza origine"

Curated by Giancarlo Fabbi & Marco Nardini
A collaboration between ph Broking & Atelier Mies

ph Broking, via Farini, 56, I-41121 Modena
18 September – 31 October, 2015

Atelier Mies, piazzetta Dè Servi, 44/a, I-41121 Modena
18 – 20 September 2015

On 18 September, the show "Olga Czewska - Mondi d'ombra. Memorie senza origine" (Shadow Worlds. Memories without an Origin) will open its doors for the first time in Italy. A variegated collection sprang from one of the most significant female foreign artist, who shares her life and work between Italy and Germany. Her exhibition will take place during "festivalfilosofia 2015" the annual festival of Philosophy of the City of Modena at its 15th edition.

According to current year topic: "Inherit", ph Broking gallery and Atelier Mies will give their contribution with a selection of Czewska’s artworks. Fifty masterpieces will be shown: photography, oil painting, gouache together with – "h.o.g." 2014 – a sculptures cycle with a deep monolithic and atavistic connotation, made with dyed wood.

The event will offer the opportunity to both galleries to reaffirm their tight cooperation, enriched by the extraordinary church of San Giovanni Battista; that from 10 - 31 October will host the sculpture section, during the 11th "Giornata del Contemporaneo" (Contemporary art day) promoted by AMACI. Alltogether, the three locations, have to be considered a veritable narrative trilogy on "Shadows": one of the cornerstones of Czewska's art.

In long history of figurative arts, shadow has always reminded to something more profound as in some way it confirms the presence of solids matter, taking the place of the projecting object as its sole concretion explains the superintendents.

In Olga Czewska’s works the shadow seems independent from its source, being free from nostalgia and feelings of emptiness, conscious of its own essence. The result: immortal and enigmatic shapes, floating in between light and dark as rebel entities, fighting against "reality absolutism", suggesting the existence of a mysterious inverted world. Solid shadows for solid sculptures out of time; originated by a meaningful investigation, looking for a metaphysic entity. The artist shows a cyclic evolution in her creative activity: the autobiographic principle has to be discovered in the development of the lyric, while the growing attention focusses on the signs shevisualizes — like in the series "botshaft - rosso forte" (botshaft deep red), gouache on paper and "h.o.g. piangente" (crying h.o.g.), oil on canvass — characterized by thin blurred profiles that come alive either through shadows or marked by new independent and unexpected "objects".

At first sight, said independent expressions reflect a sort of paradigmatic representation of themselves: playing with perspectives and hints and setting free the subject from the imagined object that imposes itself.

The artist duplicates the object showing both its front and back side in the same visual field, as a sort of time overlapping of present and past. This procedure creates an identity crisis, without giving birth to a real investigation. On the contrary, a simultaneous, sculptural epiphany takes place where container and content hide themselves, opening the doors to perception.

Olga Czewska (Timmerdorf, Germany), finds the way to express her emotional experiences through her works of art, from a symbolic point of view; making the "World of Shadows" the subject of her drawings, paintings, pictures and sculptures, letting emerge her sanctuary "hog - House of god", a spiritual place explaining an archetype. Actually she lives and works in between Liguria and Hamburg.

More information: www.olgaczewska.com