aDaigneault #1 - Marta Klonowska

Marta Klonowska – works almost exclusively in sculpture. She was born in Warsaw in 1964 and currently resides and works there. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw 1987 - 1989. A big part of her work is sculpting animals from baroque and romantic paintings in glass and metal.

Venus and Adonis after Peter Paul Rubens

installation | sculpture and print | 2008

sculpture dog | glass on metal framework | 68 x 120 x 30 cm | H x L x W

Lemur

sculpture

glass on metal framework | 80 x 37 x 124 cm | 31.5 x 14.6 x 48.8 in. | 2011

Large Kitchen Still Life after Michel de Bouillon

installation | sculpture and print | 2009

sculpture | glass on metal framework

94 x 58 x 44 cm | 37.0 x 22.8 x 17.3 in.

All of her compositions start with metal framework and she builds up the forms with thousands of tiny shards of colored glass. To me it kind of looks like they're exploding - the sharp edges add dynamic movement to the otherwise mostly static poses of the animals.

Klonowska on her own work: "My animal figures are part of historical paintings, where they play a secondary role to the sitters. In my art the animals perform as the principal actor. Animals are difficult to understand and it is difficult to communicate with them. My glass animals open therefore a new reality, which is different from ours. The sitters in the painting, the animals and the audience of my art perform in a kind of theatrical stage, where the different levels become indistinct. This clash of realities should make us think about the uncertainties of life.”