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Don't Dream about Love, Kuryluk

06.05-14.08.2016 Don't Dream about Love, Kuryluk
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Don't Dream about Love, Kuryluk is a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Ewa Kuryluk, a painter, installation artist, art historian and writer. The show features over 50 paintings from the collections of the National Museum in Krakow, the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Wrocław and Museum of Art in Łódź, as well as important works from the artist's own collection to be presented in Poland for the first time.

EWA KURYLUK was born on 5 May 1946 in Krakow. Her father – Karol Kuryluk – was the founder and publisher of the pre-war Lviv "Sygnały" [Signals] and after the war became the editor of the weekly "Odrodzenie" [Revival], while her mother – Maria Kuryluk (b. Miriam Kohany) – was a writer and translator.

The exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow – the first Polish retrospective of Ewa Kuryluk’s paintings – begins with her self-portrait "Don’t Dream about Love, Kuryluk" (1977), and ends with her canvas "Helmut Mourning a Pheasant" (1967), which in 1969 opened her first solo exhibition at the Higher School of Music in Warsaw.

The exhibition constitutes an important summary of Kuryluk’s painting achievements. She admits that in the last forty years the world’s best collection of her paintings has been preserved at the National Museum in Krakow. The exhibition is held in its Main Building, located only about fifteen minutes away from the rotunda at no. 15 Basztowa street, where a little baby began to observe the world – the baby who on 5 May 2016, the day of the opening of the exhibition, will turn seventy.

In her paintings, the artist talks about herself in the world, and about the world within her. It is a specific, symbolic and surreal realism – Kuryluk willingly surrounds her self-portraits with cut-outs and collages. Yet she avoids self-interpretation and does not get sentimental over her manifold alter egos – she tends to mock them.

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Ewa Kuryluk, Dont't dream about love, Kuryluk
1977, acrylic and collage on canvas
property: National Museum in Wrocław
Paintings by Ewa Kuryluk
Paintings by Ewa Kuryluk
Paintings by Ewa Kuryluk
Paintings by Ewa Kuryluk - exhibition space
Paintings by Ewa Kuryluk - exhibition space
Opening of the exhibition titled Don't dream about love, Kuryluk
Opening of the exhibition titled Don't dream about love, Kuryluk

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