Dimensions: 183 x 152 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Zawa 1991 | "HOMAGE TO MATISSE" | ACRYLIC | 72'' x 60"'.
Exhibited
"At once. For two. Zawa. A monographic, retrospective of Hanna Zawa-Cywinska exhibited in two acts", Wallspace Gallery, Warsaw, 16.02-1.03.2024, Prześwit Gallery, Warsaw 21.02-30.04.2024
Literature
At once. In two. Zawa. Exhibition of the work of Hanna Zawa-Cywinska, exhibition catalog, Wallspace Gallery, Warsaw 2024, p. nlb. (il.)
Biography
Abstract artist, painter, graphic designer and sculptor. She graduated from biochemistry and journalism at Warsaw University. From 1967 to 1994 she lived in New York, where she studied advertising and graphic design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the State University of New York at Purchase. Since the 1990s, she has been creating in Switzerland, being active in VISARTE - the Swiss Association of Visual Art. From 2004-2018, she also worked and exhibited in Paris and Warsaw. She is a member of the International Art Association (IAA/UNESCO).
In the 1980s, she began her artistic activity and became associated with the circle of artists exploring the problem of geometry in art, centered around Bożena Kowalska. At the same time she belonged to the circle of artists associated with Gerard Blum-Kwiatkowski, and participated in group exhibitions organized by him. In 1987 she had her first exhibition in Warsaw. In 1991, she took part in the exhibition "We are" in Warsaw, and since then her constant presence in Polish artistic life dates. Her art represents the current of geometric abstraction, which the artist saturates with symbolic elements and peculiar emblematics. She devotes much attention to the purely sensual qualities of her works, their colors, texture and the materials used, often non-standard (such as sand, various substrates, binders, etc.).
She has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in Poland, the US, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, and participated in more than 150 group exhibitions.
The artist's works are in numerous private and museum collections around the world, including the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington), the National Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Lodz, the District Museum in Chelm, the Museum of Modern Art in Hünfeld (Germany), the MIT Museum in Cambridge (USA), the New England Center for Contemporary Art (USA), the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts (USA) and the Manoir de Martigny(Switzerland).
