Venus in the mist – we're all naked – individual exhibition of Aleksander Kienc

Opening cancelled

Open until: Friday, 24 April 2020

ArtBrut Gallery and Studio for Socio-Cultural Inclusion
46A Ruska Street, Wrocław

Exhibition's artistic mentor: Małgorzata Rel

Aleksander Kienc (born 1971) lives and works in Wrocław. He writes poems and scripts, casts tin medals, sculptures in plaster, makes jewellery but most of all draws. In his works, he is primarily noted for his fascination with the human body, its shape, contour and nudity. Diana, Archer, Venus is ashamed, Themis or Woman with a jug are selected titles of Alexander's drawings, in which the author reveals his fascination with the human body, especially a feminine figure. The multiplied lines, mostly in a range of greys, expose the full dynamics of the drawings of the unique imagination of their author.

He is an active participant of the workshops in the "Ostoja" Association, an organisation for people with disabilities. Some years ago, Małgorzata Rel, an artist who runs this studio, noticed his works.

Małgorzata Rel – a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Zielona Góra – MA of Art. She has several years of experience in working with people with disabilities. The organiser of several dozen solo exhibitions and many collective art exhibitions of people with disabilities in Wrocław libraries, art galleries in Poznań, Kraków, Bydgoszcz, Lublin and Wrocław as well as in the Art Museums in Warsaw, Katowice and Wrocław. Research interests: subjectivity of intellectually disabled people in art.