Barbara Kozłowska (1940)
Poland

"Barbara Kozłowska (1940-2008) was one of the most important artists of the Wrocław avant-garde. She turned Malarska in Wrocław into her own Babel gallery - an independent, autonomous meeting place for artists. She participated in groundbreaking events for art in the 1970s: the "Wrocław 70" symposium and the "Reunion of Dreamers" in Elbląg in 1971. In her art, she most often used ephemeral, hard-to-see, disinterested gestures. She left numerous works, poetry and theoretical texts. In her works, she tried to combine various disciplines: visual arts, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, performance. A large part of her work consisted of formally modest conceptual activities, spatial compositions and artistic situations. Using seemingly banal objects (plastic bottles, paper cards), she created installations with complex meanings. She was able to concretize great, universal natural or poetic concepts, while also including small, personal and intimate gestures. According to Kozłowska, every phenomenon could be presented as an image of abstract art."
(Source, website, Galeria Esta)

Work :

• Point of View (1978)