Kasia Banaspaintings • malerier • malarstwo

Farvens fyldeOm Kasia Banas fortolkning af Henrik Nordbrandts digte

Hvad kan man tilføje et digt, hvor man finder følgende strofer (”Lysår”)?: ”Om dagen kaster solen din skygge/ind i mit liv./Om natten er det efterårsmånen./Den første smerter mest./Den anden sårer til gengæld dybere./Men det er de udslukte stjerners lys/som kaster den skygge/jeg elsker:/Den som med lysår bag sig/er kommet dig nærmest/din mindstebevægelses væsen.”

En litteraturanmelder kan tale om Henrik Nordbrandts uudslukkelige melankoli, hans sublime evne til billeddannelse og hans enestående fornemmelse for sprogets rytme og klang. En maler derimod må efter bedste evne forsøge at tolke det samme i et helt andet, ordløstmedie.Heldigvis har man siden romantikken forsøgt netop dette: at finde en fælles poetiskfællesnævner i litteraturen, musikken og billedkunsten, og malere som Delacroix, Signac,Kandinsky og Klee har i teori og praksis demonstreret, hvordan farver og former kan illudereklange, toner og harmonier.

Henrik Nordbrandts digte ”foregår” altid i en spinkel hinde mellem drøm og virkelighed. På samme måde finder man i Kasia Banas malerier en dobbelthed af motiv og abstraktion. Vi ser en inddeling af lærredet i de tre grundelementer: jord, vand og himmel med en anløbsbro og sejlbåde liggende for anker i den stille sø. I det fjerne anes bjerge, og ovenoverkaster solen eller månen et lysfyldt skær over sceneriet. Dette traditionelle landskabsbillede forrykkes imidlertid af nonfigurative penselstrøg i form at cirkler, halvtransparente farvelag og ekspressive kalligrafiske udladninger. Noget, som er med til at lægge et drømmende slørover motivet og gøre rumvirkningen irrationel og paradoksal, kort sagt, gøre malerierne selv til poesi. Medvirkende hertil er Kasia Banas indfølende fornemmelse for farven: dybe blå toner,varme gule, orange og røde og en violet, som driver melankolske molstemninger ind over helheden. En farvesans, som virkelig rammer ned i de følelsesmæssige dybder, hvor der ikke er langt fra ekstase til fortvivlelse. Hvis man skal sammenligne med noget på dansk grund, må det være Oluf Høst og hans nærmest panteistiske fornemmelse for lyset, ellers skal vi til en Pierre Bonnard for at genfinde en så intens fornemmelse for farvens fylde.

Det siger sig selv, at Kasia Banas tolkning af Henrik Nordbrandts digte ikke skal tages for mere end de er: en subjektiv indlevelse i et på samme tid fantastisk smukt og hjerteskærendemelankolsk univers. Men hun givet sig i kast med opgaven på den eneste måde, man kan overforså stor en digter: give sig selv fuldt ud, sprænge sine grænser, søge ind i sin sjæls bundløse dybog lade nuet strømme igennem en. Det er lykkedes for Kasia Banas. Rigtigt godt, endda.

Tom Jørgensen, redaktør af Kunstavisen

Kasia Banas is an abstract artist whose paintings draw on the landscape as an identifiablesource of inspiration. ”I’m trying to generate my own artistic code to convey a landscape in the language of the abstract.”

Generally speaking when we refer to abstract art, (the language of the abstract) we arereferring to art which has taken from, or separated out, an identifiable source of reality and abstracted its elements. It could be that an artist starts out with an object or a figureand abstracts its elements so that the resulting art work becomes a visual interpretation ofreality – a simplified or stylised version of a recognisable subject matter. In this sense Kasia’swork often uses direct representational elements such as a ship or a river bank – objectswhich are instantly recognisable to us as being ’real’ or having been taken directly from reality to help us read her work.

”My art stems from the very real visual experience such as my journeys which then find reflection on canvas as my personal landscape portrait” . Kasia Banas has already found herown unique sense of ’sound’ and harmony. Using both representational elements, and pureabstract mark and form – her boats, fields and river banks, set amongst an arrangement of pure abstract colour and line – expressionistic mark, texture and fine layered glazes of oilpaint – seem to pound out there own sense of rhythm – drawing you in and then pullingyou back out again, pulling you in and drawing you out. At times, Kasia’s work seems toseek to purely represent the sensation which nature elicits, her journeys, experiences andmemories, rather than to represent nature itself. Then, a key representational elementcatches our eye and instantly transforms the composition, pulling us ephemerally back intothe reality of a landscape.

Jenny Brookman

Przy okazji wystawy Kasi BanaśMalarstwa się nie wymyśla, do malarstwa się dochodzi

A landscape in the language of the abstract

Ma oczy szeroko otwarte i myśli.Kiedyś pracowita studentka, „myślące malowanie“ – dziś dowód na możliwość rozwojuwrażliwości plus odwaga realizacji.Czy to kobiece malarstwo? (oparte przede wszystkim na wrażliwości) – ale jeśli „męskie“nie ma tej cechy – jest niedobre.Malarstwo Kasi to po prostu dobre, piękne malarstwo.

Józef Hałas

In the daytime..., oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

One day in June, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

At night..., oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

The blue pond, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

The bay, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

A cloudy sky, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

The dusk and no memories, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

August at the Mediterranean Sea, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

Two footbridges, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

Late evening in April, oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm, 2010

Yellow afternoon, oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm, 2010

The grey island, oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

The light of dawn, oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

Dusk, oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

May afternoon, oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

The full moon, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

Quiet place, oil on canvas 110 x 130 cm, 2010

Just after the rain, oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

The green island, oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm, 2010

A bright day, oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm, 2010

Website: www.banas.art.plwww.banas-art.pl

Email: kasia@banas-art.pl

Born in Poland. Studied painting, graphic artand sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In 1997 graduated from Prof. Józef Hałas’studio in painting. A member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers. Works in painting and graphic design.

Kasia Banas

AWARDS: 2002: • Award of the Polish Pastellists Association

• The First International Biannual Pastel Exhibition, Poland 2000: • 10th Art Exhibition “Egeria”, Poland1998: • 3rd Autumn Salon of Art, Poland1998: • 5th Polish Exhibition “Music in Painting”, Poland1998: • The M.Ritter Award, 2nd National Biannual Pastel Exhibition,

Poland1998: • The 3rd Prize, 2nd National Biannual Pastel Exhibition, Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:2010: • Danish Cultural Institute, Warsaw, Poland: “Light years”,

exhibition of a series of paintings inspired by the poems ofHenrik Nordbrandt (accompanied by an album collection of paintings and selected work by Nordbrandt)

• Royal Danish Embassy, Warsaw, Poland• Galeria Miejska, Wrocław, Poland• Nordalia (Festival of Nordic Culture in Silesia), City History

Museum, Katowice, Poland• Zamkowa Gallery, Lubin, Poland• Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark

2009: • Gallery M Odwach, Wrocław, Poland• Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark

2008: • Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark• Zamkowa Gallery, Wrocław, Poland• Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark• Cafe Druen & Bønnen (with Galerie Bram), Odense, Denmark,

exhibition connected with release of the art book “PerfekteBrudstykker” (poems by Claus Juel, paintings by Kasia Banas)

2006: • Gallery M Odwach, Wrocław, Poland • Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark • Gallery M Odwach, Wrocław, Poland

2005: • Betweenthesenses Gallery, Oleśnica, Poland 2003: • C. Gallery, Poland 2001: • Abakus Gallery, Poland2000: • Galeria Miejska, Oleśnica, Poland 1999: • “En Bloc”, Ludwig Maximilian Universitat, Munich, Germany 1998: • Zamkowa Gallery, Poland

• Frączkiewicz Gallery, Poland1997: • Na Odwachu Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

• Abakus Gallery, Wrocław, Poland1996: • Abakus Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2011: • Art Herning (with Galerie Bram), Herning, Denmark2010: • Galería Krabbe, Málaga, Spain

• Museum of City Trogir and Palace Milesi, Split, Croatia• Art Herning (with Galerie Bram), Herning, Denmark• Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark

2009: • Galerie Bram, Hobro, Denmark • Weibull’s Kunstgalleri, Vedbæk, Denmark• Hillerød Kunstmesse, Denmark • Art Herning (with Galerie Bram), Herning, Denmark

2008: • Museum of City Trogir, Croatia • Palace Milesi, Split, Croatia• The Brick Lane Gallery, London, England• Hillerød Kunstmesse (with Galerie Bram), Hillerød, Denmark • Art Herning (with Galerie Bram), Herning, Denmark

2007: • Hillerød Kunstmesse, Hillerød, Denmark 2006: • “Gardens”, Gallery BWA, Ksiaz Castle, Poland

• 3rd International Biannual Pastel Exhibition, Poland and Rotterdam, Holland

2005: • “The Art of Love“, Oxo Gallery and Bargehouse, London, England2004: • BWA Gallery, Wrocław

• Galeria Miejska, Czestochowa, Poland• “Egeria”, Modern Art Gallery, Poland• 12th Art Exhibition “Egeria”, Gallery of Modern Art, Poland• 2nd International Biannual Pastel Exhibition, BWA Gallery, Poland

2003: • International Biannual Pastel Exhibition, Galerie Kralingen, Rotterdam, Holland

2002: • 2nd International Biannual of Miniature, OPK Gallery, Poland• The First International Biannual Pastel, BWA Gallery, Poland

2001: • 4th Exhibition of Young Painting and E. Geppert Competition,BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

2000: • The International Biannual of Miniature, OPK Gallery,Częstochowa, Poland

• 10th Art Exhibition “Egeria”, Gallery of Modern Art, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland

• 3rd National Biannual Pastel Exhibition, BWA Gallery, Nowy Sącz, Poland

1999: • Aqua Fons Vitae, BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1998: • Arsenał Gallery, Wrocław, Poland• 2nd National Biannual Pastel Exhibition, BWA Gallery,

Nowy Sącz, Poland • 17th Festival of Polish Modern Painting, ZPAP Kierat Gallery,

Szczecin, Poland• The National Exhibition of Young Painters, Galeria Miejska,

Legnica, Poland• 3rd Autumn Salon of Art, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec

Świętokrzyski, Poland• 9th Art Exhibition “Egeria”, Gallery of Modern Art,

Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland• 5th Polish Exhibition “Music in Painting”, Obok Gallery,

Tychy, Poland 1997: • 2nd Autumn Salon of Art, BWA Gallery, Poland

• International Art Exhibiotion “Bielska Jesień”, BWA Gallery, Poland

• Artists from Wrocław, Pod Plafonem Gallery, Wrocław, Poland1996: • Hałas and his students, W Pasażu Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

• Open air painting exhibition, Museum, Bystrzyca Kłodzka • Painting, Graphic and Sculpture, Braunschweig, Germany • The Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland• Exhibition in studio “5”, Polish TV, Wrocław, Poland

ART SYMPOSIUMS:2005: • International Painting Symposium, Nowy Sącz, Poland 2008: • International Art Symposium, Trogir, Croatia2010: • International Art Symposium, Šolta, Croatia

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