Natalia Załuska
Natalia Załuska constructs minimalistic, structural paintings using various materials that she accurately assembles with a range of different techniques, resulting in a play of geometric forms that transcend the boundaries of two-dimensional space.
Załuska’s painting derives from the tradition of minimalist abstraction: minimalist in its vocabulary of simple geometric forms, its prevalence of monochrome colour planes, its abiding sense of straightforwardness; and abstract in its eschewing of references to and representations of recognizable elements from the ‘real’ world. The fundamental form is always based on a rectangle upon which multi-layered monochrome collages develop, made of canvas and cardboard, acrylic and pencil. The artist folds, tears or cuts the materials and arranges them carefully into a structure that opens up new perspectives through its broken surfaces. Her meticulous orchestration and delicate execution of these multiple layers and layerings give rise to a resonant dissonance of colour, volume, line and surface. As Załuska says, “I see my practice as a reflection on space: organising or rearranging space, using different components. I like to play with surface and depth.”
Natalia Załuska (b. 1984, Poland) lives and works between Warsaw, Poland and Vienna, Austria. She graduated from the painting department at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna in 2013, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the ‘Young Poland’ fellowship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland in 2018, and a grant from the Alfred-Toepfer Foundation from 2011 to 2013. Załuska has held solo and duo exhibitions at Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw; Galerie Klüser, Munich; Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid; Christine König Galerie, Vienna; and Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin. She has also participated in numerous group shows at international institutions such as the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw; Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; and The National Museum, Gdańsk; among others. Today her work can be found in notable public and private collections including the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the National Museum in Gdansk, the Langen Foundation in Neuss and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection in Miami.
