Polish artist Urszula Wilk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Three times a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Poland (1987-1988-2012), she received the Eugeniusz Geppert Grand Prize for Painting in 1989. In 1995, her work was awarded a scholarship from the New York Pollock-Krasner Foundation. During the 1990s, she also participated in artistic campaigns in the urban space of Wroclaw.
In 2012, during her residency in China, she presented the exhibition Lines at the Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing. At the Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennale (China), one of her works received the highly sought-after Shenzhen Watercolor Award. The work was acquired by the Luohu Art Museum in Shenzhen.
Since then, Urszula Wilk can look back on an international career. Many of her works can be found in private and public collections in Poland, China, Germany and Luxembourg (City of Dudelange).
In her abstract and conceptual artworks, Wilk often explores themes of memory, emotion and the passage of time, using a variety of media including painting, drawing and installation. She invites the viewer to comprehend her
work from a sensory and emotional point of view. One of the artist's recurring researches concerns space. Indeed, in her works, the notion loses its obviousness by becoming something ambiguous and confusing. For Urszula Wilk, it is both an enigma relating to painting – or, more broadly, to art as a whole – and a fundamental existential issue. Space, which appears more or less clearly in many of the artist's works, sometimes becomes the key element, dominating all the others.
It is in the series entitled Bluemetrie , filled with various pictorial analyses, that the exploration of space returns the most. Etymologically, Bluemetrie means the measurement of blue. This particular evaluation is found both in the paintings on canvas made using traditional pictorial techniques and in the installations and objects created by the artist. What is essential here is that Wilk's work gravitates around blue, a color rich in symbols and varied cultural meanings. Thus, when we contemplate his compositions, we unconsciously transport this
heritage, influencing our interpretation and apprehension.
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