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November 2024
Flow – the final stage
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‘Flow’ is an art project being carried out between 2020 and 2024 for an apartment complex near Sobieszewo Island.
As the investor writes: “The elegance and style of the Sol Marina Resort is emphasised by the splendid sculptures designed and made especially for this place by Danka Jarzyńska (…). With her work, Jarzyńska emphasised the simplicity and rhythmic nature of Sol Marina’s architecture. As she herself states, it was the immediate vicinity of water and land that inspired the realised compositions. Flow is a strongly symbolic series”. More information about the investment here.
Dozens of sculptures and installations have been created, characterised by attention to detail and the high quality of the materials used. Above all, they are sophisticated black oak, polished bronze and hand-crafted granite, emphasising the prestige of the site. They tell of the meeting of the elements of water, air and earth, migrating birds, schools of fish. They announce the cruises that the yachts moored at Sol Marina will embark on.
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August 2024
„Weranda” magazine
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The new issue of “Weranda” magazine features a conversation with Danka Jarzyńska by Staszek Gieżyński, combined with a presentation of her work.
May 2024
In the passage
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A selection of Danka Jarzyńska’s sculptures are presented in the space of the innovative Intel Gdańsk Kampus office building, Intel’s largest research and development centre in Europe. There, for the first time, one can see the expositionally demanding work “Creating the World” (2023), as well as the installation “Flow” and the “Absolutions” series. The modern black oak sculptures intensely resonate with the building’s interior.
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March 2024
Absolutions in NOMUS
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The New Museum of Art in Gdańsk NOMUS hosted a meeting with Danka Jarzyńska combined with an intimate exhibition of her latest works entitled. “Absolucje’.
The meeting was also attended by Professor Lechosław Lameński and Małgorzata Paszylka-Glaza, who chaired it. They discussed the artist’s creative path and the spatial, historical and aesthetic contexts in which her works are situated.
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January 2024
Struktura czerni / Structure of Blackness
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Danka Jarzyńska’s sculpture “Structure of Blackness” is on display in the Sculpture Park of the Polish Sculpture Centre in Orońsko from 2022. The work is made of black oak and granite and measures 242x178x100 cm. It was created in 2021 with the support of a grant from the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for cultural creators.
We present its photographs recently made by Jan Gaworski (2024).
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October 2023
„Akcent” 4/2023 featuring Jarzyńska
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The latest issue of the literary magazine “Akcent” contains an extensive article by Professor Lechosław Lameński on the work of Danka Jarzyńska (excerpt available online). It says: “Brancusi’s sculptures are perfectly ascetic, focused solely on pure form, behind which nothing is hidden, while Jarzyńska is a restless person who, in addition to the perfected form, is also interested in an elusive spiritual element. Almost every one of her sculptures (…) hides some kind of secret, the sense and meaning of which the viewer should try to discover for himself”.
The issue contains many reproductions of Jarzyńska’s works, often accompanied by poetic pieces.
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July 2022
Impulse – exhibition catalogue
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The catalogue of Danka Jarzyńska’s solo exhibition Impulse has been published by the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.
It can now be read and viewed online here.
The catalogue contains texts by Lechosław Lameński, Tamara Książek and Jarosław Pajek, curator of the exhibition, among others.
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Summer 2021
Pustka / Void
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Danka Jarzynska takes part in the collective exhibition Void, organised by the Gdansk Archipelago of Culture. More information here.
The motto of the exhibition is the Heart Sutra: “Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form; form in its essence is emptiness, emptiness in its essence is form; it is the same with feeling, perception, action and consciousness”.
The exhibition takes place at GAK’s Gallery “Stacja Orunia” from 09.07. to 24.08.2021.
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May 2021
Project “Flow” – phase one
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Danka Jarzyńska’s “Flow” project was created in collaboration with the investor of the Sol Marina apartment complex near Sobieszewo Island.
“Flow consists of more than twenty sculptures and installations inspired by the rhythms of modernist architecture and the elements of water and earth. Materials used include bronze, granite, black oak and carbon steel.
The project was documented by Gdańsk-based photographer Paweł Wyszomirski.
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January 2021
Impulse solo show in Orońsko
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Danka Jarzyńska’s solo show “Impulse” has opened at the “Chapel” gallery at the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. The exhibition will run until 14 March 2021.
Curator: Jarosław Pajek
“An impulse is an excitement, a stimulus, a signal – a necessary condition for action, for change. Something that can break us out of our routine and lead us to an attentiveness that makes our choices more conscious. (…) For the sculptor, the collision of matter is a generator of meaning. One can speak of an attempt to measure oneself against nature, in an attempt to find a balance between creation and destruction”.
MORE INFO.
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December 2020
About Kore in “Biuletyn Rzeźby”
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The new issue of “Biuletyn Rzeźby”, published by the Bydgoszcz Art Centre, has been released, featuring Danka Jarzyńska’s exhibition Kore and an open-air of sculpture in granite organised by Jarzyńska on Sobieszewska Island.
The entire publication is available HERE.
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August 2020
Kore – exhibition catalogue
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The catalogue of Danka Jarzyńska’s exhibition Kore has been published. It can be viewed in full HERE.
We also invite you to listen to a CONVERSATION with the sculptress and the curator of the exhibition, Adrianna Majdzińska, broadcasted on Radio PiK (21.07.2020).
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July 2020
Kore
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A solo exhibition of sculptures by Danka Jarzyńska entitled “Kore” is being held at the Stanisław Horno-Popławski Art Centre in Bydgoszcz (Bydgoszcz, ul. Jagiellońska 24). MORE
Time: 17.07-5.09.2020
Curator: dr hab. Adriana Majdzińska
Patronate: artinfo.pl, ZPAP Gdańsk, ZNAK, Polskie Radio PiK
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November 2018
Balances exhibit
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In the ZPAP Gallery in Gdańsku (ul. Mariacka 46/47) an exhibition of Danka Jarzyńska sculptures takes place entitled Balanse/ Balances.
The balance explored in the works on display oscillates between process and effect, fragility and perfection, matter and that which transcends matter. Each sculpture also oscillates between other poles of opposites, such as interior-exterior, top-down, passivity-activity, female-male, solitude-community. They seek a golden mean, which has something utopian about it, like the human desire for harmony, but which we cannot (should not?) abandon.
Several of the sculptures in the ‘Balances’ series are inspired by the symbol of infinity. Its power is not only to evoke tranquillity and the promise of balance. It is also an association with eternity, permanence and the absence of limits. This mystical sign encourages finding one’s place in reality, including the use of one’s power in moderation. By working on my own sculptural interpretation of it, I invite you to travel into the depths and at the same time to experience intensely what is here and now.
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February 2020
Maski, maski, maski / Masks, masks, masks
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Danka Jarzyńska takes part in the collective exhibition entitled “Masks, masks, masks” organised by ZPAP in Gdańsk. A reproduction of her work is displayed on the exhibition poster.
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October 2019
Barwy złota / Colours of gold
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Collective exhibition Barwy złota (Colours of Gold) organized by ZPAP (Gdańsk) with participation of Danka Jarzyńska. The exhibition poster features a reproduction of her work.
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June 2017
Pokażmy się… spotkajmy / Let’s show up, let’s meet
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Collective exhibition with participation of Danka Jarzyńska
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February 2017
Podszepty / Whispers
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individual exhibition of Danka Jarzyńska
Galeria Jednego Dzieła, Gdańsk PGiNG
Partner: Fundacja Wspólnota Gdańska
January 2017
Improvisations
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solo exhibit of Danka Jarzyńska
Gdańska Scena Muzyczna Gdańskiego Archipelagu Kultury
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Danka Jarzyńska has been awarded
III prize in the international art competition
Nano Art, organized by Galerie Roi Doré Paris
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September 2017
Wyspa w granicie/ Island in stone
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Danka Jarzyńska has curated the First Granite Sculpture Plein-Air on Sobieszewo Island near Gdańsk. She has also participated in the event as an artist.