Aleksandra FARQUE-NAGIĘĆ (b. 1979), LES VACANCES SUR LA MINE (Holidays in the Mine), 2013

oil, canvas; 100 x 70 cm;
Signature p. d.: NAGIEC;
On the back author's description: LES VACANCES SUR LA MINE / ALEKSANDRA NAGIEC / 2013.

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow - faculty of printmaking under Prof. Stanisław Wejman and Prof. Krzysztof Tomalski. He is currently engaged in expressive painting, often monochromatic moving in the range of the chosen color. He paints lyrical abstractions, often writing poetry texts, quoting on the paintings. He is interested in movement and gesture encapsulated in abstraction. He is also interested in the art of mentally ill people, naive art, often ethnic art. In addition to her exhibition activities, she is also involved in curatorial care. She has also collaborated with the Dialog Theater and the Kanonicza Street Scene. She was a participant in plein-air art workshops in Zaborek and Jakubowice that ended with group exhibitions. During her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, she participated in the group exhibition of the Swedish-Italian Foundation in Venice during the Venice Biennale in 2001. She took part in the Biennale of Graphics in Poznan and Serceles near Paris. She exhibited her works in 2001 at the NCK in Cracow at a presentation titled: "Waving and Falling". She received the second prize for the Graphic of the Year 2002 at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, awarded by the Faculty of Graphics of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. She received a scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture and Art and the French Government in 2003.
In Athens, she studied painting, printmaking and ceramics. She did an internship at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Toulouse with Prof. Jean Luc Favel, in the Workshop Graphics and Infographics studio. She participated in the final annual exhibition of students and graduates of the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Toulouse. She exhibited prints at the Cederic Baqville Gallery in Lille. She organized Festival Cassel in France where she also exhibited her compositions. She had numerous painting exhibitions at Point Barre Gallery, Ann Sophie Colette in Lille. She opened a painting studio "Atelier 22" in the center of old Lille. She collaborated with the YNWA Artistic Advertising Agency in Lille (Execution of advertising projects for Tempo, Orange stores, collaboration with Canon and Peugeot). While living in London, she co-managed the Topolski Century Gallery at Waterloo Station.
She collaborated with the Minister of Culture and the Arts to organize a series of exhibitions on the occasion of the Polish Year in London and Toulouse.
In 2014 she had an exhibition of prints at the French Embassy in Krakow. Multiple exhibitions at the European Parliament in Luxembourg in 2014 and 2015, among others.
She is a member of ZPAP Krakow and participates in the group exhibitions of the Winter Salon at the Palace of Friends of Fine Arts and Art Meetinig Tomaszowice, as well as the Open Workshop - gallery of the Palace under the Rams in Krakow. The last exhibition took place at the Cracow University of Technology- Boiler Room Gallery "Art in Architecture" in November 2016 and Winter Salon in December 2016.