Anna Bocek
VITA 1973 born in Gdansk, Poland later academic studies at the governmental academy of arts in Gdansk at the faculty of painting and Set Design 1997 first award for the best Shakespearean Set Designer Project of Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, Gdansk since 1997 numerous stage settings for plays by Gogol, Fredro, Shakespeare, Gurney, Simon et al. as well as stage settings for different events, e.g.. „Ave Gedanum", opening of the "St. Dominik Jahrmarkt" in Gdansk, 1997 and 2001 1999 diploma at the academy of arts 2005 Prizewinner of The Best of Soho 2005 Art Show, New York, U.S.A 2005/2006 Prizewinner of the "Amber Museum's Project", Gdansk, Poland. Solo- and Group-Exhibitions (Selection) 2008/2009 Painting exhibition, Polish Consulate General in Malmo, Sweden New Works, Canfin Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, USA New Works - Anna Bocek, Galerie Art Affair, Regensburg, Germany 2005-2007 Painting Exhibition I, Galeria Aneri, Gdansk, Poland Painting Exhibition - Elements II, Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland Summertime, Levent Gallery, London, UK Zeitgenössiche gegenständliche Kunst, Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg, Germany On Stage Design and Spatial Forms, National Museum in Gdansk, Poland II Painting Meeting La Alberca, Mallorca, Spain Visions of a Woman, Art Affair Gallery, Cannes, Frankreich Regensburg, Germany The Fusion Gallery, Alicante, Spain Nouvelle Biennale, Galerie de la Marine, Nice, France 2003-2004 Women in Painting, Tygiel Gallery, Gdynia, Poland Painting Exhibition - part I, Art-Domain.Com Gallery, Mallorca, Spain III Art Festival of Gdansk, Era Art, Gdansk, Poland Painting Exhibition, Dimidium Toto Gallery, Sopot, Poland Shakespeare Set Design Exhibition, Theatrum Gedanese Foundation, Gdansk, Poland Painting Exhibition, World Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA Recent Works: Enver Gursev, John Brown F.R.B.S., Anna Bocek, Painting Exhibition - part II, Art-Domain.Com Gallery, Mallorca, Spain La Agenda Art- Special Nov/Dec - Jim Bassett & Anna Bocek, La Agenda Office & Project Management, Mallorca, Spain Collective Extension, The Confusion Art Gallery, Piacenza, Italy La Agenda Art - Special Jan 04 - Erling Leick & Anna Bocek, La Agenda Office & Project Management, Mallorca, Spain La Agenda Art - Special March 04 - Anna Bocek, La Agenda Office & Project Management, Mallorca, Spain Recent Works: Anna Bocek, Enver Gursev, The Gallery Beckenham, London, UK Vier Leidenschaften, Kunstsalon Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany 2001-2002 Searching for style, National Museum in Gdansk, Poland I Art Festival of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland Just a man, Young Designers Exhibition Centre of St, John, Gdansk, Poland II Art Festival of Gdansk, Era Art Gdansk, Poland Painting Exhibition, Gallery '78 Gdynia, Poland Gate of Memory, Historical Exhibition Centre of St. John, Gdansk, Poland In Old Gdynia's Cinema, Centre of Franciscan, Gdynia, Poland Painting Exhibition, Cascada Warsaw, Poland 1996-1999 Portfolio, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, Poland Design projects exhibition, Baltic Dramatic Theather, Koszalin, Poland Young Designers Exhibition, Gdansk, Poland Andrzej Markowicz & his students, Sopot Designer's Gallery, Sopot, Poland Pattern & Space, National Museum in Gdansk, Poland About the artist Anna Bocek tries to extract from this magma what is the most interesting to an artist: differentiating, individual and outstanding elements that form an icon in modern times. Unlike Andy Warhol, who only reproduced what was repeated and popular. Perhaps this is the reason why the painter is searching in expressionism for some communication techniques. With these strong means of expression, she wants to leave a permanent trace in her and the viewer's memory. At the same time, she is perverse, ironic and witty, which adds true value to her studies of faces and figures. Her pictures also remain in one's memory because they are very subtly based on deep archetypes of our consciousness. They use colour and light contrasts boldly, often drawing psychological or social situations of people depicted. However, her images are not journalistic: the painter deprives neither media men nor sociologists of their jobs. Rather from her work they can learn many interesting things about us: entangled in modern times like in an enormous, gigantic network of visual information. Painting means reflection, not production. This simple, though often forgotten truth, is brilliantly reminded by Anna Bocek. Pawel Huelle
The Gallery Beckenham, London, UK
