The placing of the right angle

Olga Mokrzycka- Grospierre has staged her exhibition at a rather unusual venue: a prvate Warsaw apartment whose decor has not changed since the 1970 s. With oak panelling, custom-made ward-robes and tables, vintage tailing in the bathroom and a wallpaper mural in the kitchen, the space inspired the artist to create an installation comprising paintings, objects, and low-key interventions using textiles. The exhibition is meant not only as a presentation of pictures but also as mise-en-scène project and an artistic intevention in a distinct space.

Rather than interfering with the extant architecture, Mokrzycka-Grospierre skifully weaves her works into it, paying attention to detail and emphasising the place’s unique atmosphere.

The combination of architecture, patina and the special mood of the site corresponds nicely with Olga-Mokrzycka-Grospierre’s work. The artist takes us on a sentimental trip through relics of the past, evoking mementoes of Modernism, bringing our attention to small imperfections and ‘curiosities’ characteristic for the past era.

Mokrzycka-Grospierre paints on canvas as well as on concrete and wooden bases. Her visual style, the way lines are traced, and the well thought-out play of solid figures in light all suggest a strong affinity with, and inspiration by, Modernism. Hence the title, a slightly paraphrased quotation from Le Corbusier’s seminal Toward an Architecture, which combines the utopia of modernist architecture with a yearning for geometry and linear order.

Olga Mokrzycka-Grospierre was born in 1976 in Warsaw. She holds an MA in Painting (2000) and Stage Design (2003) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Author of sets and costumes for theatre shows as well as paintings on canvas and wooden and concrete bases. Lives and works in Warsaw