Monika Furmana’s exhibition Mechanical Soul will present works of an impressively monumental size reaching up to 5 meters. As Meno Niša’s spaces are not enough to host such paintings, Mechanical Soul moved to Tsekh Gallery.

 

With her exhibition Mechanical Soul at Tsekh Gallery, Monika Furmana will seek to reveal a man as an integral part of the material environment. The main theme in Monika Furmana's works is a woman and her body. In her artworks, the artist provocatively and intrepidly deconstructs a woman's body and changes her identity. The artist is fascinated by the blurring boundaries and contrasts that are shocking and exciting at the same time.

 

“The human being is material. It is materialistic in another sense, too: I consider the work of art itself as an object, i.e. a thing that exists independently of me (its creator) alongside with other things of the objective world. I observe how an artwork miraculously reveals the historically changing relationship between a man and a thing, a man and the nature, and religion. While departing from the idealisation and spiritualisation of an artwork, I emphasise and contemplate the materiality of the painting and the creatures born in it”, presents her latest exhibition Monika Furmana.

 

The famous painter, Monika Furmana (b. 1978) is a doctoral student at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and has held 14 solo exhibitions. Her works have been purchased by collectors from Lithuania, Belgium, Finland and the USA, including the most renowned Austrian erotic book writer and publicist. Monika's works are also in the collections of the Lewben Art Foundation and MO museum. Meno Niša Gallery has been very successful for several years already in presenting the artist at such art fairs as Viennacontemporary, Positions Berlin, ArtVilnius and others.