Paulina Olowska: The Alchemist
Paulina Olowska: The Alchemist
Paulina Olowska: The Alchemist
Paulina Olowska: The Alchemist
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Paulina Olowska

The Alchemist, 2015

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About the artwork
Paulina Olowska’s painting shows a woman perched on a high desk, looking ahead, as though she has been interrupted whilst reading a book. She is surrounded by scientific drawings and specimens of assorted mushrooms and fungi. Post-it notes adorn the wall, suggesting annotations made during the study of these items. The piece resembles a mid-century fashion photograph, and two long garlands of fungi cascade down from the woman’s dress. The title refers to the alchemy, an ancient proto-science where practitioners tried to turn base metals into gold. Paulina Olowska has likened her process to alchemy – wanting to create something entirely new, fascinating and perfect, out of paints and canvas.
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  • Artist Paulina Olowska
  • Artwork The Alchemist
  • Material FSC Certified paper and wood
  • Date of work 2015
  • Credit Original: Oil paint, aerosol paint and graphite on canvas 220 x 150 cm Tate. Presented by Gaia Art Foundation, UK 2016 © Paulina Olowska

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paulina Olowska (born 1976) is a Polish artist who lives and works in Rabka Zdroj and Krakow, Poland. She works in paint, photography, performance, and video. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, and completed scholarships at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Hague, Centro de Art Communication Visual (Arco) in Lisbon, Portugal, Centre of Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan, and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The portrayal of women is central to her work, which is held in international collections, including Tate’s. In 2015 she performed her artwork The Mother: An Unsavory Play in two Acts and an Epilogue in the Poetry and Dream suite of displays at Tate Modern.
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