nail varnish/linen
Dimensions: 100 x 50 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'MARTYNA ŚCIBIOR | COMMON GOOD | 2024'
Literature
"Art is living matter, it is always created here and now. It arises from interpersonal relations, from external stimuli, internal impulses. Art is an ever-pulsating, budding cultural tissue that does not wait, but happens.
I met Ms. Hanna Suchocka somewhere on the paths of life about a year ago, we ate, sitting next to each other soups with very, very, very small spoons, a task that turned out to be not easy and time-consuming. It is a rare and rather surreal coincidence to meet Poland's first Prime Minister under such circumstances. Until now, she has always been that handsome woman from television, always surrounded by only men, whom I watched in awe as an eight-year-old girl, not understanding at all what I was really looking at. Now she has materialized as an uncommonly bright, strong, witty and clear character. There are some people with whom interacting just after a while motivates one to paint a picture, even after eating soup with them.
I recently asked Ms. Suchocka for some leftover pieces of her nail polish, which she sent me in the mail. From these leftovers this painting 'Common Good' was created. The title refers to Mrs. Hanna Suchocka's words, which she used in the context of building a post-transition society. This process is still ongoing."
MARTYNA ŚCIBIOR
Biography
Martyna Scibior was born in 1985 in Lublin. She lives and works in Zawada, near Lublin, and sometimes in Warsaw. A painter who in 2013 swapped paints for leftover nail polish, which she collects from women. Her abstract paintings, consisting of the repetitive gesture of applying nail polish to the canvas, as if on nails, allude to knitting, a repetitive, meditative activity that requires patience.
Martyna Ścibior is a two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, a winner of the Geppert Competition (Wroclaw 2013), the Promo of the Young (Legnica 2012), a finalist of the Talents of the Three (Warsaw 2014). Her paintings can be found in the PKO Bank Collection, the Art Collection of the European Hotel, or in the collection of the Starak Family Foundation.
