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Marta Klonowska - "My glass animals open a new reality."

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
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Photo: Stephan Wieland

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years. These are primarily dogs that gave additional significance to people in Renaissance and baroque portraits, or which were simply all the rage at the time. She turns them into a life-size glass sculptures. Marta Klonowska was born in Warsaw in 1964. Between 1987 and 1989 she studied at the Academy of Pictorial Arts in Breslau/Wrocław and at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts as a master student under A.R. Penck from 1989 to 1997. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Warsaw. Her sculptures, which also make up installations with reproductions of the paintings, can also be found in private collections and museums in many countries. 

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  • Ill. 1a: Henry the Pious of Saxony, 2003 - Henry the Pious of Saxony and his Wife Katherine of Mecklenburg after Lucas Cranach the Elder, 2003.
  • Ill. 1b: Henry the Pious of Saxony, 2003 - Henry the Pious of Saxony and his Wife Katherine of Mecklenburg after Lucas Cranach the Elder, 2003.
  • Ill. 2a: The Arnolfini Wedding, 2003 - The Arnolfini Wedding after Jan van Eyck, 2003.
  • Ill. 2b: The Arnolfini Wedding, 2003 - The Arnolfini Wedding after Jan van Eyck, 2003.
  • Ill. 3a: The Young Ones, 2003 - The Young Ones after Francisco de Goya, 2003.
  • Ill. 3b: The Young Ones, 2003 - The Young Ones after Francisco de Goya, 2003.
  • Ill. 4a: Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, 2003 - Portrait of the Duchess of Alba (red) after Francisco de Goya, 2003.
  • Ill. 4b: Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, 2003 - Portrait of the Duchess of Alba (red) after Francisco de Goya, 2003.
  • Ill. 5: The Morning Walk, 2004 - The Morning Walk after Thomas Gainsborough, 2004.
  • Ill. 6a: Presentation, 2005 - Presentation after Pietro Longhi, 2005.
  • Ill. 6b: Presentation, 2005 - Presentation after Pietro Longhi, 2005.
  • Ill. 7: Portrait of a Lady, 2006 - Portrait of a Lady Holding Her Pet Prince Charles Spaniel after Jan Verkolje, 2006.
  • Ill. 8a: Venus and Adonis, 2008 - Venus and Adonis after Peter Paul Rubens, 2008.
  • Ill. 8b: Venus and Adonis, 2008 - Venus and Adonis after Peter Paul Rubens, 2008.
  • Ill. 8c: Venus and Adonis, 2008 - Venus and Adonis after Peter Paul Rubens, 2008 (detail, exhibition “Streichelzoo”, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, 2008).
  • Ill. 9: Goat, 2008 - Goat after Alexander Keirincz and Cornelis van Poelenburch, 2008.
  • Ill. 10a: Large Kitchen Still Life, 2009 - Large Kitchen Still Life after Michel Bouillon, 2009.
  • Ill. 10b: Large Kitchen Still Life, 2009 - Large Kitchen Still Life after Michel Bouillon, 2009.
  • Ill. 11a: Lynx, 2009 - Lynx after a Sketchbook Page by Albrecht Dürer, 2009.
  • Ill. 11b: Lynx, 2009 - Lynx after a Sketchbook Page by Albrecht Dürer, 2009.
  • Ill. 12a: La Marquesa de Pontejos, 2011 - La Marquesa de Pontejos after Francisco de Goya, 2011.
  • Ill. 12b: La Marquesa de Pontejos, 2011 - La Marquesa de Pontejos after Francisco de Goya, 2011.
  • Ill. 12c: La Marquesa de Pontejos, 2011 - La Marquesa de Pontejos after Francisco de Goya, 2011.
  • Ill. 13: Maki, 2011 - Maki, 2011.
  • Ill. 14a: Lady Walking Her Dog, 2012 - Lady Walking Her Dog after Claude Louis Desrais, 2012.
  • Ill. 14b: Lady Walking Her Dog, 2012 - Lady Walking Her Dog after Claude Louis Desrais, 2012.
  • Ill. 15: Garden View with a Dog, 2014 - Garden View with a Dog after Tomas Yepes, 2014.
  • Ill. 16a: Demoiselle en Polonoise unie en Buras, 2014 - Demoiselle en Polonoise unie en Buras after Claude Louis Desrais, 2014.
  • Ill. 16b: Demoiselle en Polonoise unie en Buras, 2014 - Demoiselle en Polonoise unie en Buras after Claude Louis Desrais, 2014.

Marta Klonowska - "My glass animals open a new reality."

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
©
Photo: Stephan Wieland

Further reading:

David Revere McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design New York: Marta Klonowska, in: The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Summer edition, New York 2006

Marta Klonowska. Streichelzoo, exhibition catalogue, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2008

Marta Klonowska. Dogwalk, work catalogue, Düsseldorf 2008

Marta Klonowska. Lion Dog meets Garden Dog. Exhibition catalogue, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin 2015

 

Marta Klonowska in public collections:

Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich

The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg / European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg

Museum Kunstpalast / Glas-Museum Hentrich, Düsseldorf

Ernsting-Stiftung / Glasmuseum, Coesfeld

Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries

 

Solo exhibitions by Marta Klonowska

2015 Lion Dog Meets Garden Dog, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2014 Marta Klonowska, Venice Projects, Venedig

2013 Puszek and Friends, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2009 Geschöpfe (with Sibylle von Preußen), lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2009 Domestic Animals, The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki

2008 Streichelzoo, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

2005 Portraits und Tierskizzen, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2003 Dogwalk, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2002 Åkerby Sculpture Park, Nora

1997 Galerie Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris

1996 Trophäen, Galerie Laden 33, Mühlheim am Main

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
©
Photo: Stephan Wieland
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