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Dreamlike figures and picturesque landscape stories give room for imagination which cannot stay alien to an alert eye. Stubborn characters and completely caught up figures – this is what Dawidowski chooses as the subject of her painting. Her women are focusing on the distance; some boldly provocative, others quietly withdrawn. These figures radiate grace, charm and elegance. In her landscape paintings, bathed in light, she describes situations of Southern life – fusing imagination and reality. Monika Kira Dawidowski exhibits graphic arts and unique specimen painted in oils or mixed techniques. She invites the observer on a journey into the world of sensuality. Monika Kira Dawidowski’s graphic arts breathe a both direct and subtle sensuality one can hardly resist. She is neither afraid of revealing erotic fantasies nor stylistic resemblances. Her allusions bring back memories – difficult to say: of what. “The first unmoved mover moves like a beloved” – if this proposition by Aristotle is true, then Dawidowski’s paintings are full of this magic of the Divine. Her paintings attract, they cast their spell; with unspecified, longing regret you leave them behind, sensing that you have to come back. Her paintings do not leave you any chance to rest. In her graphic arts the artist prefers a clear stroke, dividing colour combinations as well as the important from the unimportant. Therefore, the ability of the observer to perceive the form is never overtaxed. He or she always have the impression of knowing what a painting by Dawidowski is all about – and thereby inevitably getting caught in the trap of plausibility. Because her paintings are rarely what they seem to be, and never simply that. Their magic stays cryptic and the background turns a landscape of the observer’s own soul. So the artist does not give the observer any other riddles than the ones he asks himself. Even in this sense Dawidowski’s paintings are magical movers, staying unmoved by the movements they arouse.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schwarz
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