Agata Materowicz
{{Short description|Polish artist}}
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Agata Materowicz (born 1963) is a contemporary Polish artist. She is a multi-disciplinary artist specialises in oil painting, including copies of masterworks and portraits painting, animation, puppetry, installation art, photography, sculpture, drawing, graphic design and others.
Biography
Born in Warsaw, Materowicz received her MFA in Visual Arts (Puppet Animation, Painting and Drawing) from the Academy of Fine Arts, and BFA in Computer Graphic Design from University Of Computer Sciences and Skills, both in Łódź, Poland.
Materowicz graduated with honours from the Faculty of Visual Arts at Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland. She achieved top marks for her(Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window – Johannes Vermeer's) project and theory thesis assignments: "Puppet for Film Animation" Faculty of Puppet Animation, promoter prof. Marek Skrobecki and "Painting for the Scenography of the Animated Film" Faculty of Painting and Drawing, promoter prof. Jolanta Wagner. Contemporary Multimedia Artist. She is very active in the following art areas: photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics, illustrations, computer graphics art, design and editorial. She illustrated children's book and also some of them designed and published.
The author of several scientific articles and publications including copyright infringement.Agata Materowicz: ”Examples of copyright infringement by daily newspaper Zycie Warszawy” published in [http://www.scriptorium.net.pl/?sekcja=autor&opcja=autor&id=94 Ethics in the media vol.7: World standards vice everyday life]' by Scriptorium, {{ISBN|978-83-62625-02-4}}, online edn. 2010, Retrieved 03 June 2013
She gained her Computer Graphic Design Bachelor of Arts from the WSInf, Łódź. She has also Diploma of Landscape Architecture- Warsaw College of Architecture, Diploma of Marketing- Ciechanow Collage of Marketing, Diploma of Architecture – Warsaw Collage. She received the certificate – ArtCamp Digital Photography / Open Air-International Summer School of Art, University of West Bohemia – Czech Republic. – University of West Bohemia in Plzeň and the certificate of the Academy of Photography in Warsaw. She also holds a certificate of Internet Marketing, Adobe, Corel Draw, computer graphics, web design organised by Apple. In the 1980s she was the co-founder and then president of the Music Club. Anna Jantar "Bursztyn"and as the chairman she organized concerts, authors readings and exhibitions.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkihwc0q6fY&list=UUI5EKSuemmWw3i80hpMAgEA&index=3 Video interview with Agata Materowicz, EMI DVD-"Small Handful of Life" memories of Anna Jantar i Jaroslaw Kukulski] January 2013Iza Parynow, Renata Jarecka, [http://www.sussex.info.pl/pl/start/temat-miesiaca/217-iza-parynow-co-zesa-los-trzeba-bdzie-straci.html Whatever was sent by fate would be lost] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023230952/http://www.sussex.info.pl/pl/start/temat-miesiaca/217-iza-parynow-co-zesa-los-trzeba-bdzie-straci.html |date=2014-10-23 }}, InfoPl, 30 October 2010Bloog Anna Jantar, [http://bursztynowa-dziewczyna.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=6 First logo of Agata Materowicz: Bursztyn Fan Club]’Memories of Anna Jantar,‘[http://www.annajantar.fora.pl/wspomnienia,1/bursztyn,157.html Agata Materowicz: In memory of Anna Jantar]Anna Jantar i Jaroslaw Kukulski, [http://jaroslawkukulski.com/news/premiera-dvd-zycia-mala-garsc/ In memory of Anna Jantar: Small Handful of Life – Agaty Materowicz], November 2012Natalia Kukulska Bloog, [http://www.nataliakukulska.ubf.pl/news.php?rowstart=11 In memory of Anna Jantar: Small Handful of Life – Agaty Materowicz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821085126/http://www.nataliakukulska.ubf.pl/news.php?rowstart=11 |date=2013-08-21 }} Honorary Members of the Club were: Jarosław Kukulski, Natalia Kukulska, Eleni Tzoka, Halina Frackowiak, Romuald Lipko, Zbigniew Holdys, Marek Karewicz, Michal Rybczynski, Danuta Mizgalska. From 1985 to 1987 Agata worked as a graphic editor for "Weekly Ciechanowski".
In 1991, she was co-founded of the "Association of Painters and Sculptors – Warsaw Old Town".
She was the Photography Instructor teaching young people techniques how to see things differently.
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Awards and honors
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- 2014 – Scenography, puppets: design and construction for Natalia Kukulska video "Headdress" (Polish: Pioropusz)[http://www.nataliakukulska.pl/archiwum-maxi-singiel/3354-premiera-juz-dzis, Headdress (Pioropusz), Natalia Kukulska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305150141/http://www.nataliakukulska.pl/archiwum-maxi-singiel/3354-premiera-juz-dzis, |date=2016-03-05 }} Warsaw, Retrieved, 04 November 2014[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNQIhcMudE, Headdress (Pioropusz), Natalia Kukulska], Retrieved 04 November 2014[http://www.nataliakukulska.pl/archiwum-maxi-sigiel/3343-pioropusz-nowa-piosenka-nowy-pomysl-na-clip Pioropusz – new song, new video idea] Retrieved 04 November 2014Natalia KukulskaMarek Skrobecki
- 2013 -Master's Degree, project: "Illusions in Art – the road from painting to the movie" – nominated for the Best Fine Arts Diploma in Poland, Diplomas 2013
- 2012 – Art Scholarships for her outstanding achievements: from the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education
- 2012 – Art Scholarships from the Marshal of Łódź Region in 2013[http://www.lodzkie.pl/wps/wcm/connect/lodzkie/departamenty/Kultura/Stypendia/ Scholarship Marshal of Łódź] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606005252/http://www.lodzkie.pl/wps/wcm/connect/lodzkie/departamenty/Kultura/Stypendia/ |date=June 6, 2013}}, 2013
- 2011 – Award Gallery Kobro in 29 Strzeminskiego Competition at ASP Łódź29 Strzeminskiego Competition, ASP Łódź, ‘[https://web.archive.org/web/20140302070030/http://asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1726%3Aedycja-2012&catid=41%3Awydarzenia&Itemid=96&lang=en Award Galerii Kobro Agata Materowicz, position 34], 26 April 2012
- 2006 – Award Photo Competition "Mokotow", Warsaw
- 2007 – Award Photo Competition "My way of seeing Warsaw". Awarded photo was promoted the city of Warsaw on billboards, citylighs and other promotional materials in Poland and aboard.Warsaw City Council Warsaw-News, [http://warszawa.naszemiasto.pl/archiwum/1570018,tak-widze-warszawe-rusza-ogolnopolska-kampania-promocyjna,id,t.html Agata Materowicz, Photo Competition: My way of seeing Warsaw], 29 October 2007, Retrieved 03 June 2013M. Rychter, T. Bonda, ‘[http://www.wprost.pl/ar/126217/Zlote-dzieci/ Agata Materowicz: Golden children], Tygodnik Wprost, Nr13/2008
- 2004 – Winner ADDage.com Logo Competition (USA)
- 1979 – Silver Medal at Shankar's International Children's Competition, New Delhi, India
Solo exhibitions
File:Kopia, Autoportret, 1913, Witkacy namalowana przez Agata Materowicz.jpg, Łódź, (2014)]]
File:Agata Materowicz making Animator Doll for video Pioropusz-Natalia Kukulska.jpg, (2014)]]
- 2013 – "Alter Ego" – Photo Exhibition at Parramatta Art Gallery Sydney – Australia – July 2013"ALTER EGO” [https://archive.today/20130806084047/http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/parramatta/events/-alter-ego-photos-by-agata-materowicz-exhibition/1023995993 Photos by Agata Materowicz exhibition]
- 2007 – "The Four Eyes" – Art Gallery „Ogrod” – JablonnaM. Smolinski, Council Jablonna, [http://www.jablonna.pl/index.php?cmd=aktualnosci&opt=pokaz&id=689Agata Materowicz's Photo exhibition, Gallery Ogrod] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212214212/http://www.jablonna.pl/index.php?cmd=aktualnosci&opt=pokaz&id=689Agata |date=2013-12-12 }} 9 Maj, 2008, Retrieved 03 June 2013
- 1998 – Polish Art and Handicrafts Exhibition – Trade Formex '98 in Stockholm
- 1987 – "Fimo World of Agata Materowicz” Cultural Centre in Ciechanów
- 1984 – "Anna Jantar- First Step- Last Step” at the Students Club „Stodola” – Warsaw, then moved to Lublin, Łódź, Kraków. Poznań
Group exhibitions
- 2015 – The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant, UK
- 2014 – Gallery Neon "Łódź z Łódzi" (eng: Boat from Boat), Wrocław[http://www.asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4239%3A140827-lodz-zlodzi&catid=142%3Ainne-wystawy&Itemid=195&lang=pl Gallery Neon Exhibition Wroclaw] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104152841/http://www.asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4239:140827-lodz-zlodzi&catid=142:inne-wystawy&Itemid=195&lang=pl |date=2014-11-04 }}, The News ASP, Łódź, 2014
- 2014 – Museum of Textiles "Prime Time", Łódź [http://asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3647:140114-wyniki-prime-time-2013&catid=41:wydarzenia&Itemid=96&lang=e Prime Time] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202125032/http://asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3647%3A140114-wyniki-prime-time-2013&catid=41%3Awydarzenia&Itemid=96&lang=e |date=February 2, 2014 }}, Muzeum of Textiles, Łódź, 2014[http://www.plasterlodzki.pl/sztuka/rzeba/8920-prime-time-2013-w-centralnym-muzeum-wokiennictwa-foto Prime Time 2013 Muzeum of Textiles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924074124/http://www.plasterlodzki.pl/sztuka/rzeba/8920-prime-time-2013-w-centralnym-muzeum-wokiennictwa-foto |date=2015-09-24 }}, Plaster Łódzki, 25 January 2014[http://lodz.gazeta.pl/lodz/51,35153,15333070.html?i=3 Graduation Works Exhibition, in ASP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208011833/http://lodz.gazeta.pl/lodz/51,35153,15333070.html?i=3 |date=2014-12-08 }}, Gazeta Łódzka, 24 January 2014[http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,15333070,Wystawa_dyplomow_lodzkiej_ASP__Najlepszy_to____stroje.html Graduation Works Exhibition in ASP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210043648/http://m.wyborcza.pl/wyborcza/1,105406,15333070,Wystawa_dyplomow_lodzkiej_ASP__Najlepszy_to____stroje.html |date=2014-12-10 }}, Gazeta Wyborcza 24 January 2014
- 2013 – International Festiwal "Art & Documentation", Łódź[http://www.doc.art.pl/sztuka_obiekt_zapis5.htm International Art & Documentation Festival], Łódź, April 2013[http://www.lodz-art.eu/wydarzenia/sztuka_obiekt_zapis5 International Exhibition: “Art for Documentation – Documentation for the art”, (paragraph#7)], Anka Lesniak, Retrieved 17 June 2013[http://www.livinggallery.info/text/art_and_documentation2013 Lesniak Anka, Between art and Documentation], Living Gallery, July 2013
- 2013 – Exhibition:"Boat from Łódź". Work exhibition- "Brick Boat", Strzegom
- 2013 – Professors and students post symposium exhibition:"Me, Here and Now" Gallery Kobro – ŁódźMilano Expedition, [https://plus.google.com/photos/105590129344369658046/albums/5800746550573544849?banner=pwa Photos by Agata Materowicz] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413065322/https://plus.google.com/photos/105590129344369658046/albums/5800746550573544849?banner=pwa |date=April 13, 2016 }}, September 2012A. Materowicz, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvkLfJN7Pc&list=UUI5EKSuemmWw3i80hpMAgEA&index=2 Agata Materowicz, Video photos presentation: Milan: Me, Here and Now], September 2012
- 2012 – Participant's exhibition ArtCamp Digital Photography/ Open Air– International Summer School of Art. University of West Bohemia – Plzen, Czech Republic
- 2012 – Exhibition: „Łódź, the Transborder City, Transmediale Art” Scheiblera Factory, Łódź
- 2012 – The Winners Exhibition: XXIX W. Strzeminskiego Competition. Gallery KobroGaleria Kobro,‘[http://niespodziewana.blogspot.co.uk Exhibition Kobro's House, Photos Agaty Materowicz]’, November 2012 Łódź, catalogue: {{ISBN|978-83-63141-09-7}}
- 2012 – Paintings Exhibition: VII Charity Auction: "Seed Art – Garden of Hope". Under the auspices of the National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw University Library. Warsaw.[http://www.artinfo.pl/?pid=catalogs&sp=auction&id=1765&id2=297770&lng=1 Materowicz artwork:I don't give up] ArtInfo,2012
- 2012 – Participation in the project: "Embroider Łódź", Ksiezy Mlyn, Gallery Manhattan, Łódź
- 2012 – Exhibition "Łódź, the Transborder City", Park-Gardener's Cottage, Zrodliska in Łódź
- 2012 – Painting Exhibition:"Corpus", Gallery -Free Space, ASP ŁódźGroup exhibition Corpus, '[https://web.archive.org/web/20140302072933/http://asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1567%3Acorpus-w-galerii-wolna-przestrzen&catid=139%3Agaleria-sw&Itemid=192&lang=pl Pillow – painting made by Agata Materowicz, Galleria Cobro]', February 2012
- 2011 – Painting Exhibition:"Risk" – Gallery: Short and Up to the Point. Łódź
- 2007 – Participation in the post-competition Exhibition, PKiN Warsaw
- 2007 – Participation in the Photo post-competition Exhibition: “Mokotow” Warsaw
- 2007 – Photo Exhibition:"Janow Podlaski”, Town Hall, Deblin
- 2006 – Participation in the Landscape Photographic Exhibition:"Janow Podlaski”, Ermitaz, Lazienki Krolewskie,Group Photo Exhibition, [https://archive.today/20130416111147/http://www.fotoklubradom.strefa.pl/archiwum/janowpodl/index.htm Agata Materowicz Galery Ermitaz – Lazienki Królewskie ] Warsaw, August 2006, Retrieved 03 June 2013 Warsaw, Zielona Gora, Deblin.
- 2005 – Photo Exhibition:"Remember the Summer", Warsaw – Bemowo[http://www.gazetaecho.pl/bedzie-sie-dzialo_20048 Materowicz's solo photo exhibition in Warsaw-Bemowo], Gazeta Echo, 25 Maj 2007
- 1991 – The Association of Artists, Painters and Sculptors Painting Exhibition, Warsaw – Old Town,” Landscape otherwise” – Club „Kadr” Warsaw
- 1979 – The Winners post-competition Painting Exhibition:"Shankar'a”, New Delhi – India [http://www.childrensbooktrust.com/sicc.htm Shankar’s International Children’s Competition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318162606/http://www.childrensbooktrust.com/sicc.htm |date=2013-03-18 }}, Delhi[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B98i2xjTQ6YtSE93eEVwQ09fUmc/edit Materowicz Shankar's Letter#1][https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B98i2xjTQ6YtNElyb0hIa0JRa1E/edit?pli=1 Materowicz Shankar's Letter#2]
Publications
- 2013 – Participation in the International “The Booooooom and Adobe Remake Photo Project”. Photo interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci “The Last Supper” Vancouver, Canada
- 2013 – The catalogue “Me, Here and Now” from International symposium ASP Łódź, {{ISBN|978-83-63141-17-2}}
- 2010 – The article "Examples of copyright infringement by daily newspaper Zycie Warszawy" published in “Ethics in the media vol.7: World standards vice everyday life" by Scriptorium, 2010. {{ISBN|978-83-62625-02-4}}
- 2009 – The article [http://tvnwarszawa.tvn24.pl/material/w-klebach-absurdow,88731,0,0.html "A Puff of Absurdity ], TVN Warsaw, 2011, Retrieved 10 June 2013
- 2002 – “Peas around wild animals”, {{ISBN|83-7341-708-7}}
- 2002 – "Peas and forest animals”, {{ISBN|83-7341-706-0}}
- 2001 – Eleni CD "Something from Odysseus" Group members polymer clay figurines made by Agata Materowicz, Hellnic-Records / Pomaton EMI
- 2001 – “Peas and country animals”, {{ISBN|83-7212-757-3}}
- 2000 – "Peas discovers wild animals”, {{ISBN|83-7341-707-9}}
- 2000 – "Peas – kindergarten children's first book”, {{ISBN|978-8373417779}}
- 1991 – Illustrations made for prof. Anna Sieradzka book: "Cloak, train dress, peaked for-pointed cap: art and fashion in Polish Modernism", Ossolineum, 1991, {{ISBN|8304024535}}, {{ISBN|9788304024533}}
= Art catalogues =
- A. Materowicz – coauthor “Strzeminski 2012 – Creative Arts and Design”, 2012, {{ISBN|978-83-63141-09-7}}
- Agata Materowicz “Me, Here and Now”, 2013, {{ISBN|978-83-63141-17-2}}
= Art galleries displaying her art =
- Kobro Gallery of Art, Łódź
- Gallery: Free Space, Łódź
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Agata Materowicz}}
- {{Facebook|agata.materowicz|Official page}}
- Dzbenska-Karpinska Marta. “Mothers- brave or crazy”, Published by Centrum Mysli Jana Pawla II, 2012, {{ISBN|978-83-60853-22-1}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130318162606/http://www.childrensbooktrust.com/sicc.htm Shankar’s International Children’s Competition], Delhi
- [http://allegro.pl/sieradzka-o-modzie-i-sztuce-polskiego-modernizmu-i3174740091.html Anna Sieradzka: "Cloak, train dress, peaked for-pointed cap: art and fashion in Polish Modernism"], Ossolineum, 1991, {{ISBN|8304024535}}, {{ISBN|9788304024533}}
- [http://dyskografia.pl.tl/%3Cfont-color%3D-g-%23DBE3DE-g-%3E30%3Cfont-color%3D-g-%23FFFFFF-g-%3E.htm Eleni CD "Something from Odysseus"], Group members polymer clay figurines made by Agata Materowicz, Hellnic-Records / Pomaton EMI 2001
- [http://www.tc.ciechanow.pl Tygodnik Ciechanowski]
- [https://archive.today/20130416063434/http://www.worldphoto.org/profile/84028/ Agata Materowicz on World Photography Organisation]
- [http://www.gazetaecho.pl/bedzie-sie-dzialo_20048 Materowicz's solo photo exhibition in Warsaw-Bemowo], Gazeta Echo, 25 Maj 2007
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1sP3HBk3A Video interview with Agata Materowicz by TV Polsat -Teleepress]
- [http://www.artinfo.pl/?pid=catalogs&sp=auction&id=1765&id2=297770&lng=1 Materowicz artwork:I don't give up] ArtInfo,2012
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jDbBE3jw8 Video interview with Agata Materowicz, TV WOT]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkihwc0q6fY&list=UUI5EKSuemmWw3i80hpMAgEA&index=3 Video interview with Agata Materowicz, EMI DVD-"Small Handful of Life" memories of Anna Jantar and Jaroslaw Kukulski] January 2013
- [http://www.dzienniklodzki.pl/artykul/797971,projekt-dobro-i-piekno-artysci-w-przestrzeni-miejskiej,id,t.html A. Materowicz photo/promotional material] Dziennik Łódzki, 4 April 2013
- [http://gosc.pl/files/old/gosc.pl/zalaczniki/2007/11/12/1194861444/1194861459.pdf Warsaw Guest, page 8], Gosc Warszawski Retrieved 17 June 2013
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