Zofia Nowicka

Framing the Spectacle

18 August - 11 September 2010

Zofia Nowicka

Zofia Nowicka- Woman in red 2009 24x30cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zophia Nowicka A boy 2009 25x28cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka A young man 2009 41x25cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Laughing girl 2009 23x16cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Leonard Cohen concert Melbourne - 2009 270x92cm c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Man in a spectacles 2009 19x265cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Man with binoculars 2009 70x695cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Michael 2009 25x20cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka MrL Cohen 2009 30x25 - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Purple crowd 2009 27x80cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Security man 2009 - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Simon + Garfunkel concert Melbourne - 2009 324x110cm c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Spectators 2009 75x68cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka The saxophonist 2009 30x20cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Woman in pink scarf 2009 324x110cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Woman with earring 2009 25x235cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Woman with gold bracelet 2009 - 70x39cm C-type print on fujiflex paper
Zofia Nowicka Yellow crowd 2009 70x345cm - c-type print on fujiflex paper

I am interested in Spectacle and the current discussion and debates about the place of the spectacle in contemporary art and contemporary society in general.
I have been focusing on crowds in confined spaces, as I am interested in exploring the crowd as idiosyncratic almost individual groups. Each group having its own character, they have (the crowd) individual colour, behaviour, shape, pattern, tone, moods and tensions.
I am examining the difference between individual crowds at various mass events and how I see and present this world using digital technology and digital printmaking.

When Goethe saw the Coliseum in Rome, he mused that its builders and their patrons must have chosen an oval shape, so that the crowd would be aware of itself. The spectators themselves, he wrote, were the real spectacle.

Mingled with the participants I turn my camera on to the public recording their performance en mass and also directing attention on an individual in the crowd.

Individuation, reason, and order versus de-individuation, impulse and chaos.

The Spectacle begins.

Zofia Nowicka 2010

 

 

 

ZOFIA  NOWICKA - CV

Born in Poland

1980   Masters in Industrial Textiles and Fibre from School of Fine Art, Lodz, Poland
2009   Master in Visual Arts VCA, Melbourne

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2007   Contemporary Motifs, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
2006   Guns & flowers, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
1999   I and Them, Recent Sculpture, Preview Gallery, Melbourne
1997   Fragments from Life is Elsewhere, Sculpture & Drawings, Viscom 9 Gallery, RMIT Dept. of Visual Communications, Melbourne
1996   Life is Elsewhere, Sculpture & Drawings, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1995   Sculpture Exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland School of Art
1994   Sculpture, Lyall Burton Gallery, Melbourne
1990   A Knight's Meditation, Sculpture, Artists Space Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED  GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008  Px3 Photographic Competition, Paris, Second Prize
2006  Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2006  William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2005  Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2003  The Printed Image, J-Space, Chisholm Institute, Dandenong, Victoria
2001  Grounds for sculpture, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
1997  Selected Works - Group Exhibition, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1987  Five Artists - Painting and Sculpture, Artists Space Gallery, Melbourne
1985  Sculpture 85, World Trade Centre, Melbourne
1983  Interpretations, Ararat Gallery, Ararat
1983  Interpretations, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1998   Sophie's fibre class, Jen Vuk Herald Sun
1996   Overland, No.142 and No.144  Drawings
1995   Overland, No.138 and No.141  Drawings
1994   Overland, No.135 and No.136  Drawings
1994   Fibre Sculptures Trail Glory, Jenny Zimmer, The Age
1991   A Dictionary of Woman Artists of Australia, Max Germaine
1990   Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine. Published Thames & Hudson
1984  Interpretations, Craft Australia, Anna Griffiths

COLLECTIONS

Ararat Gallery, Ararat.
Kodak Australasia.
Collection of the Gippsland School of Art,  Monash University

GRANTS

1998  The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

© John Buckley Gallery 2012