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Marta Klonowska - "My glass animals open a new reality."

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
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Photo: Stephan Wieland

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years. These are primarily dogs that gave additional significance to people in Renaissance and baroque portraits, or which were simply all the rage at the time. She turns them into a life-size glass sculptures. Marta Klonowska was born in Warsaw in 1964. Between 1987 and 1989 she studied at the Academy of Pictorial Arts in Breslau/Wrocław and at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts as a master student under A.R. Penck from 1989 to 1997. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Warsaw. Her sculptures, which also make up installations with reproductions of the paintings, can also be found in private collections and museums in many countries. 

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  • Ill. 1a: Henry the Pious of Saxony and his Wife Katherine of Mecklenburg after Lucas Cranach the Elder - Private collection. Metal, glass, the duke’s dog: 117 x 50 x 127 cm, the duchess‘ dog: 44 x 25 x 58 cm, shoes: 28 x 12 x 10 cm.
  • Ill. 1b: Henry the Pious of Saxony and his Wife Katherine of Mecklenburg after Lucas Cranach the Elder - Template. Inkjet print on paper, 40 x 20 cm.
  • Ill. 2a: The Arnolfini Wedding after Jan van Eyck - Private collection. Metal, glass, dog: 43 x 48 x 26 cm, shoes: 15 x 38 x 35 cm.
  • Ill. 2b: The Arnolfini Wedding after Jan van Eyck - Template for 2a. Digital inkjet print on paper, 27.3 x 20 cm.
  • Ill. 3a: The Young Ones after Francisco de Goya - Private collection. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 65 x 25 x 35 cm.
  • Ill. 3b: The Young Ones after Francisco de Goya - Template for 3a. Digital inkjet print on paper, 29 x 19.6 cm.
  • Ill. 4a: Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, (red) after Francisco de Goya - Private collection. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 38 x 44 x 25 cm.
  • Ill. 4b: Portrait of the Duchess of Alba by Francisco de Goya - Template for 4a. Digital inkjet print on paper, 29 x 19 cm.
  • Ill. 5: The Morning Walk after Thomas Gainsborough - Art Collections of the Veste Coburg / European Museum of Modern Glass. Cut flat glass on metal constructions, dog: 48 x 73 x 73 cm, shoes: 10 x 15 x 20 cm, inkjet print on aluminium dibond, 179 x 236 cm.
  • Ill. 6a: Abb. 6a: The Presentation nach Pietro Longhi - Private collection USA. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 25 x 40 x 25 cm.
  • Ill. 6b: Presentation after Pietro Longhi - Template for 6a. Digital inkjet print on paper, 66 x 55 cm.
  • Ill. 7: Portrait of a Lady Holding Her Pet Prince Charles Spaniel after Jan Verkolje - Private collection, USA. Cut flat glass on metal construction, dog: 39 x 49 x 26 cm, shoes: 25 x 15 x 15 cm, digital inkjet print on paper, 27 x 33 cm.
  • Ill. 8a: Venus and Adonis, after Peter Paul Rubens - Private collection, Berlin. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 68 x 120 x 30 cm, digital inkjet print on paper, 95 x 138 cm.
  • Ill. 8b: Venus and Adonis - Detailed view of 8a.
  • Ill. 8c: Venus and Adonis - Detail, exhibition ‘Streichelzoo’, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.
  • Ill. 9: Goat, after Alexander Keirincx and Cornelis van Poelenburgh - Museum Kunstpalast (MKP Glas), Düsseldorf. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 165 x 119 x 45 cm, digital inkjet print on paper.
  • Ill. 10a: Large Kitchen Still Life, after Michel Bouillon - Private collection. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 94 x 58 x 44 cm.
  • Ill. 10b: Large Kitchen Still Life, after Michel Bouillon - Template for 10a. Digital inkjet print on paper, 95 x 72.5 cm.
  • Ill. 11a: Lynx, after a sketchbook page by Albrecht Dürer - Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 86 x 50 x 60 cm.
  • Ill. 11b: Lynx, after a Sketchbook Page by Albrecht Dürer - Template for 11a. Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY. Digital inkjet print on paper, 26.4 x 39.7 cm.
  • Ill. 12a: La Marquesa de Pontejos, after Francisco de Goya - Private collection, London. Cut flat glass on metal construction, dog: 45 x 20 x 45 cm, shoes: 25 x 10 x 15 cm, digital inkjet print on paper, 27 x 17 cm.
  • Ill. 12b: La Marquesa de Pontejos - Detail of 12a.
  • Ill. 12c: La Marquesa de Pontejos by Francisco de Goya - Private collection, London. Template for 12a. Digital inkjet print on paper, 27 x 17 cm.
  • Ill. 13: Maki - Private collection, USA. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 124 x 80 x 37 cm.
  • Ill. 14a: Lady Walking Her Dog, after Claude Louis Desrais - Private collection, Switzerland. Cut flat glass on metal construction, 75 x 35 x 65 cm.
  • Ill. 14b: Lady Walking Her Dog - Private collection, Switzerland. Template for 14a. Pigment print on aluminium dibond, 144 x 100 cm.
  • Ill. 15: Garden View with a Dog, after Tomas Yepes - Courtesy lorch+seidel contemporary. In front: cut flat glass on metal construction, 45 x 45 x 30 cm. In the background: digital inkjet print on paper, 27 x 39.5 cm.
  • Ill. 16a: Demoiselle en Polonoise unie en Buras, after Claude Louis Desrais - Courtesy lorch+seidel contemporary. In the foreground: cut flat glass on metal construction, dog: 45 x 55 x 30 cm, shoes: 15 x 25 x 10 cm; in the background: digital inkjet print on paper, 37 x 26 cm.
  • Ill. 16b: Demoiselle en Polonoise unie en Buras - Close-up of the dog from 16a.

Marta Klonowska - "My glass animals open a new reality."
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Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
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Photo: Stephan Wieland

Further reading:

David Revere McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design New York: Marta Klonowska, in: The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Summer edition, New York 2006

Marta Klonowska. Streichelzoo, exhibition catalogue, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2008

Marta Klonowska. Dogwalk, work catalogue, Düsseldorf 2008

Marta Klonowska. Lion Dog meets Garden Dog. Exhibition catalogue, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin 2015

 

Marta Klonowska in public collections:

Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich

The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg / European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg

Museum Kunstpalast / Glas-Museum Hentrich, Düsseldorf

Ernsting-Stiftung / Glasmuseum, Coesfeld

Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries

 

Solo exhibitions by Marta Klonowska

2015 Lion Dog Meets Garden Dog, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2014 Marta Klonowska, Venice Projects, Venedig

2013 Puszek and Friends, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2009 Geschöpfe (with Sibylle von Preußen), lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2009 Domestic Animals, The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki

2008 Streichelzoo, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

2005 Portraits und Tierskizzen, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2003 Dogwalk, lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin

2002 Åkerby Sculpture Park, Nora

1997 Galerie Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris

1996 Trophäen, Galerie Laden 33, Mühlheim am Main

Marta Klonowska brings back to life animals that have only played secondary roles in pictures for hundreds of years.
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Photo: Stephan Wieland
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