Joanna Skurska in Gdańsk
The exhibition of Fulda-based artist Joanna Skurska in her home city of Gdańsk began with a major opening on 8 January 2010. The internationally renowned artist, who is a member of the Fulda RED CORRIDOR Gallery and has already exhibited in the USA, South Africa and most recently in Ghent and Zurich, shows 23 of her best art objects at the Old Town Hall until 7 February 2010.
The works sit in the tension between fine and applied art, between art object and wearable art, and deal in a figurative sense with protection and ornament, as well as with captivity and confinement, or with wrapping and unwrapping.
Public interest in viewing the textile objects designed by Joanna Skurska, which she creates and shapes from wiry threads or fibres, has been enormous since the first day of the opening. The media response is also overwhelming: besides numerous print media, several television stations have already reported on the exhibition in the Polish metropolis. For Anna Zalewska, who heads the “Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury” and is delighted to have a real audience magnet in Joanna Skurska, this art presentation is already a huge success.