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Blueberryland #2/n

Kasia — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:30:52 +0000

From my new Series Blueberryland – The adventure in the Blueberry Hole

Blueberryland is full of unpredictable and unexpected phenomena.

Just when Blueberryer and Blueberryess wanted to go for a nice, evening walk suddenly out of the blue a golden and blue hole opened its mouth and both of them were taken into a new adventure. Maybe they could even wake up in a new Universe? Can they survive inside the blueberry hole? Is there a way to escape from it? Is the blueberry hole less dangerous than an ordinary black hole? Can Blueberryer rescue his Blueberryess without his Golden bike?

The adventure in the Blueberry Hole from the Series Blueberryland #2/n.

Blueberryland #2/n - detail

Contemporary Art in the Community #3/n

Kasia — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:19:44 +0000

On October 1st, 2011 two friends came to dinner. Ami is a musician and Didge is a studying at Plymouth College of Art.

We asked them to take part in our art-video project Contemporary Art in the Community. Both of them agreed and were happy to do so. It seems both of them are into art in a big way!

Here is our 3rd video in the series:

Contemporary Art in the Community #3/n

Kasia's Studio; The Haldon Hills, Devon, South West England

In which Ami realises that art shouldn't be about "cutting us off from the fabric of our life experience. Art is about coming up underneath our life experience, and lifting us up".

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Kasia Turajczyk at Red Dot Miami – December,1-5 2011

Kasia — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:34:06 +0000

The Red Dot Art Fair once again takes place at the Wynwood Art District in Miami, from December 1 to 5. Red Dot Miami is conveniently located in a prime spot for art fairs, while taking place during Miami’s art fair season. Some neighbors would include Art Miami, Scope Miami, and Art Asia. Red Dot Miami also runs concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach.

And I will be there represented by Artisan Direct Ltd. 6 of my paintings from the Return of Peter Pan Series will be to admire. I am not humble, but I am really love this series. The paintings are cheerful, mysterious, some of them surreal, some of them funny all of them really beautiful. I hope if you are living in Florida or close to Miami you will go and see my paintings. I would love it.

A selection of paintings from Return of Peter Pan Series

Red Dot Miami covers the entire spectrum of artists, including emerging, mid-career, and established artists. This year’s show involves nearly 45 galleries from all across the globe, specializing in both modern and contemporary art. Works include just about every medium in contemporary practice: painting photography, sculpture, and works on paper. There is also a special section devoted to the debut of specific film and photography projects. Additionally another newly developed section is reserved for books. This area is for publishing houses showing editioned publications and book arts. Red Dot Miami aims to promote this medium and bring recognition to independent publishers.

Contemporary Art in the Community #2/n

Kasia — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:37:40 +0000

Here is the second video of the project Contemporary Art in the Community. We had an unexpected visit from Doreen on October 1st 2011. She is very much into art and she liked our idea. The video has been taken outside my studio on the Haldon Hills in Devon. In this video Doreen recognises Hell when she sees it, and feels herself drowning in a really stormy, turbulent sea in one of my paintings.

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Gravity's Harlequin from Peter Pan Series

Kasia — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:03:25 +0000

In this new work from the Peter Pan Series I wanted to capture a movement. I liked the idea of the clown in motion. I have already painted him motionless, so this time I wanted to paint him in action. There is a certain uncertain power which is pulling my little harlequin- clown in one direction. However when you look very close and you pay the attention to the body of the harlequin you can discover an inclination to go in the opposite direction. And there is also Gravity, the natural phenomenon by which the body of my little friend attracts with a force proportional to his mass. Instead of a force it could of course be space-time curvature instead. An interesting idea for a new painting.

Gravity's Harlequin - acrylics on canvas; € 1.450

Devon Open Studios 2011

Kasia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:16:19 +0000

Tomorrow is Thursday 1st September and it's the launch of Devon Open Studios 2011!

It takes place at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, Stocker Road, EX4 4QB between 2-9 PM. There will be speeches at 3pm, followed later by entertainment and of course the artist demonstrations. Several artists will present their art works, and one of them will be me. Refreshments will also be available. It's a great space, and we hope (the artists and the DOS organisation) it will be a great day, too. The studios themselves are open from 10 AM on Saturday 3rd for two weeks.
In an article about Devon Open Studios 2011 The Independent said:

Worlds away from the enormous price tags of London's Cork Street, or the glossy modernism of the Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park, London, Devon Open Studios offers visitors the rare privilege of viewing art in the context of where and how it is made. And, should you feel like buying something, you're unlikely to have to re-mortgage your house to do so.

The county has long captivated artists with its dramatic landscapes. Local institutions such as the Cider Press Centre near Dartington, the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in Bovey Tracey and the Plymouth Arts Centre have long provided visitors with the edited highlights of Devon's artistic life. But creative types are now keen to show their work on their own terms, hence the burgeoning success of the Open Studios project.

Now in its seventh year, the event has grown inexorably from a handful of artists showing work in their garages and living rooms to a well-organised trail. Weavers, potters, glassblowers, photographers, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, quilt-makers and wood-turners are all more than happy to explain their practices to visitors for a fortnight, over tea. The event costs nothing to the visitor and there is no prescribed route. The best bet is to pick through the brochure to see whose artwork appeals and just turn up on their doorstep.

The invitation to the Launch of Devon Open Studios 2011

Devon Open Studios 2011 also has its own channel on YouTube. Here's Greg Ramsden talking about "Discipline in Painting":

I met Greg a year ago at the South West Contemporary Art Fair in Totnes. He is a very nice person but also a brilliant painter, I have to admit it.

To sell or not to sell your artwork

Kasia — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:15:25 +0000

I have sold my precious painting "The Invisible Tears of the Clown". I suppose I should be happy but I am not. Actually I am sad that I don't have it any more.

I can imagine how insane this sounds. However I can't change the feeling inside me. Somehow my unconscious mind doesn't allow my conscious mind to enjoy it. I want and I have to sell as many paintings as possible to be able to survive on this planet in this life. Actually I don't sell enough and I am worried about it. Therefore I should be extremely happy that somebody loved my painting and paid a significant amount of money for it. But I am not. I love my paintings and I can't help it. Probably somewhere deep down I don't want to sell them, maybe that is the reason that it doesn't happen very often?

Over the last few years I have exposed lots of my paintings in both the USA and the UK, but most of the time nothing has happened, nothing is sold, and so at some point they return to me. Probably I am so used to this now that I don't expect to sell anything any more. When suddenly one of my paintings is sold I am in a state of shock. I have lost something very precious.

I have made prints, postcards and posters on Fine Art America of the clown and also greetings card on Zazzle (an online shop) with the image of "The Invisible Tears of the Clown". I still have a small part of it left.

The link to the Zazzle shop:

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/the_invisible_tears_of_a_clown

clown canvas prints

The invisible tears of the clown – acrylics on canvas

"A kind of Red" – from the Series Return of Peter Pan

Kasia — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:06:27 +0000

Here is my new painting from the series “Return of Peter Pan”. Two good friends Mike and Kasia are thinking about their good friend Biggetje, who left them a few months ago. They are trying to console each other with a big hug. The two little puppets are their toys. They are in a red-orange-dark red-gold mood. What does that mean? I don’t have a clue. You will have to ask them. I hope you enjoy the painting. It will be available as a quality print as well as at Saatchi Online and at America Fine Art. I will post the links later on.

The title of the painting is “A kind of Red”. Feel free to make your own original interpretation-association between the title and the painting. It is an acrylics work on a deep canvas, 70 cm x 60 cm x 5 cm. Here are two images; the first shows the painting at an early stage, the second the final result.

The begin fase of A kind of Red

A kind of Red from the Series Return of Peter Pan

Science, video and the Boltzmann Paradox

Kasia — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:20:17 +0000

On May, 11th 2011 I was invited by Tiverton Art Society to give a talk about art, video and the Boltzmann Paradox. The society has more than 200 members and is a very active one. Tiverton is an ancient borough and market town in the county of Devon, and the major town in the Mid Devon. It was a real pleasure to be there and to talk to the audience about quantum physics, my own art and art in general, and to present some of my videos. I even read one of my poems, the one about a physicist of course, the Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr.

I had some concerns before the talk, associated with my accent and random blockages of my memory; especially as I am tired (actually I am in a state of chronic fatigue related to my ME condition). I also wanted to talk about quantum physics, thermodynamics and the Boltzmann Paradox in a language in which I still struggle to express myself in the way I want to. When I talk in English I switch my brain into think-in-English mode, which is the way to master a foreign language. But still too often I am sucked in by antimatter, which tries to destroy my brain, confuse my memory and makes it impossible to have an intellectual, sophisticated chat. I find myself missing words, idioms, sayings, humorous expressions, knowledge of complicated grammatical structures. It is a matter of exercises, persistency and strong will, I know that. I am too old and I am lazy, I guess. J) However, I think everything came out successfully. The audience reaction was lively, and I thought they showed a real enthusiasm. I was talking about myself, my art, my videos, and physics and Boltzmann Creatures of course. I brought two big abstract paintings and a few new ones from the “Peter Pan” series. I was myself, spontaneous and a ‘little crazy’ as usual.

The Brits in general are very nice and polite people. Think about it for a moment; all the foreigners using and murdering their beautiful language and then the Brits listening and smiling and trying to understand the others. It is quite an achievement. They have my full admiration for their patience and calm. Definitely the majority of the audience preferred watching art videos and videos about my art than listening to my talk about quantum physics. (Maybe they were bored with my accent and my English!?) I wanted to talk more about thermodynamics and entropy but it was unanimously decided to watch all three videos about the Boltzmann Creatures, Betelgeuse and Mintaka instead of being educated about the laws of physics. Well, the perception of art proceeds in a completely different way than the understanding of the laws of physics. You have to force and to strain your grey cells to understand what quantum physics is all about. On the other hand it is surprising, to me at least, that we don’t try to understand the laws of physics more. As if the world we live in wasn’t extremely complicated. Just think about it for a second. Everything that surrounds us is related to one or another law of physics.

My talk was recorded. From the long video I chose the most interesting and amusing parts, from my point of view of course. Here is a short video part 1:

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RETURN OF PETER PAN

Kasia — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:01:07 +0000

Do we really have to give up our dreams and allow society to rule our lives? It starts from the moment that we are born: “You have to do so, you have to behave in this way, you can’t say that, you can’t do that, don’t look like that, don’t move, don’t cry, don’t laugh, don’t think, don’t breath”.

Lying is a bad thing to do but telling the truth isn’t good either. When you grow up society expects from you to have a job, to make money, to find a partner to reproduce new offspring and after that do the same to them what your parents did to you; program them.

For thousands of years humans have agreed to be so and to do so. Without any guarantee that our lives will be better, happier or healthier. The primitive instinct to procreate and the other strong instinct; to stay alive, occupy the humans’ minds. It is encoded in our universal DNA even if we know we all die, eventually; and that our death is often despicable and undeserved.

We are working with persistence to develop new technologies, to make our lives easier but at the same time to destroy each other with more sophistication. We created a kind of civilisation, but it is very primitive. To be true we didn’t change as homo sapience a lot the last 10000 years. Wars, conflicts, exploitation, slavery, deceptions, envy, propaganda, jealousy and the all surrounding fear control our existence.

The best way to survive in this world it is to find your inner child and escape into that reality; hide there and wait till the end of your life.

Puella aeterna and puer eaternus are the heroes of my new series entitled “Peter Pan”. They are not present in these paintings; you can’t find their faces at surfaces or in the background. They are invisible; only their souls are smiling to us.

I think that becoming a mature person isn’t synonym for better. Definitely, it doesn’t mean better life. To stay a child for ever is only the one possible alternative to survive in this horrible world. Contrary the physiologists arguments……..Live Long Peter Pan! Voilà

I am dreaming about different world because the reality of this one I just don’t like. I am painting my own sweet and cute non- reality.

This time I am invite you into the world of Piglet, Mike, Bobby, Tony and Kasia.

This painting is an acrylics on canvas.

"Return of Peter Pan" - acrylics on canvas 2011