{"uid":"3mfsOv0j8eyA0Fs9","type":"artist","tags":["painting"],"group":"yes","group_name":null,"project_title":"Frosty Paintings","summary":"\"Frosty Paintings\" are exposed to freezing temperatures. Frost leaves its marks on the picture surface. These resemble flowers similar to the ones visible on window panes during heavy winters.\nThe winter of 2006 was blistering cold. At the time, Joanna Janiak and Piotr C. Kowalski were renovating a country house. At -10 \u00b0C, the paint was frozen on the wall, creating an abstract pattern like frost on glass. Joanna urged Piotr to replicate these patterns on canvas. The couple had revealed an aesthetic acuity and affinity for engaging nature in the creative process long before. This soft transition between the experience of life and the life of art is the essence of Piotr's actions. He has been painting nature, approaching this as a subject, and as a tool. Thus, the location and surroundings, where the picture is being made, have been extremely important. In 2009 Joanna and Piotr took their first painting into the garden to have it freeze over. From that moment on they have continued the process every winter - whenever conditions permit. But the truth is that for a few years there is no frost in their surrounding. Maybe the continuation will never be possible again, because of a global warming.\nPiotr C. Kowalski is an author of paintings realized directly in nature, titled LIVING NATURE - STILL LIFE. He is a professor at the Art University in Pozna\u0144. Together with Joanna Janiak, a philosopher, he has been making the series Frosty Paintings. www.piotrckowalski.pl","space":"Inside. A series of paintings. The smallest is 30x20 cm, the biggest is 200x130 cm. Technique: acrylic on canvas, metal, glass, wooden board. Framed. Part of the series were shown at solo and group exhibitions in Poland. Some of them were never shown before.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[{"names":"Joanna","surname":"Janiak","email":"jjaniak@o2.pl","dni_type":"Other","dni":"CEG744669","address":"Nienawiszcz 22","city":"Rogo\u017ano","nacionality":"Polish","country_id":"182","birthdate":"1955-08-10T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1955-08-10T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+48606917694","web":null}],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":"http:\/\/piotrckowalski.pl\/index.php?\/project\/parawany\/","cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":8,"names":"Piotr C.","surname":"Kowalski","email":"piotrc.kowalski@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"DAC510050","address":"Nienawiszcz 22, 64-610","city":"Rogo\u017ano","nacionality":"Polish","country_id":"182","birthdate":"1951-06-22T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1951-06-22T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+48504493429","web":"www.piotrckowalski.pl"}