Magdalena TARGOÑSKA, Carousel

60x42 (framed 70x53), collage on paper, 2023

B.1979, Wroclaw
Graduate of the postgraduate course Plastic Disciplines in Architecture at the E.Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (2018). Her works are in private collections in Poland, Germany and Italy.
She creates in collage technique, which gives her paintings a specific, slightly jittery character. She does not use paint, replacing it with paper from colored newspapers, which she fixes with a gel medium. Each painting consists of hundreds of small pieces of paper. The most common subjects are landscapes, especially cityscapes. The author tries to convey the atmosphere of the place, the mood of the season and the time of day. The landscapes are inanimate, but at the same time energetic through multicolor, the search for three-dimensionality and the play of chiaroscuro.