Harvest of Time
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the solo show Harvest of Time by Monika Grzymala in the gallery space in Milan, in Via Zenale, from September 23 to November 18, 2022.
Monika Grzymala presents a never-before-seen site-specific installation, realized with silver adhesive tape, alongside some new works dealing with the aspect of time in various forms and expressing the idea that drawing is a thought guided by the hand. Suminagashi (line of flight), consisting of over a thousand mono-prints on paper overlapping in a body-high stack, was conceived during the pandemic and lockdowns between the years 2020 and 2022. The floating ink drawings layer time and build a sediment of the artist’s existence.
Other large-scale drawings are based on the gravity of ink on paper and the works called Hand-Drawings manifest the artist’s hand movement, which we also find in videos turning hundreds of pages with drawings of The Book of Hours series. All exhibited works are manifestations of time, at the border with memory, and signs of ephemeral existence through the artist’s touch.
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the solo show Harvest of Time by Monika Grzymala in the gallery space in Milan, in Via Zenale, from September 23 to November 18, 2022.
Monika Grzymala presents a never-before-seen site-specific installation, realized with silver adhesive tape, alongside some new works dealing with the aspect of time in various forms and expressing the idea that drawing is a thought guided by the hand. Suminagashi (line of flight), consisting of over a thousand mono-prints on paper overlapping in a body-high stack, was conceived during the pandemic and lockdowns between the years 2020 and 2022. The floating ink drawings layer time and build a sediment of the artist’s existence.
Other large-scale drawings are based on the gravity of ink on paper and the works called Hand-Drawings manifest the artist’s hand movement, which we also find in videos turning hundreds of pages with drawings of The Book of Hours series. All exhibited works are manifestations of time, at the border with memory, and signs of ephemeral existence through the artist’s touch.
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2021Black acrylic ink on off white paper
84 x 70 cm
33 1/8 x 27 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Self (celestial), 2021Triple print in red, blue and green
soft ground etching on Japanese tissue paper
59 x 172 cm
23 1/4 x 67 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey Satogami paper
70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2021White acrylic ink on Satogami paper
59 x 42 cm
23 1/4 x 16 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Mirror #41, 202120 x 30 cm
7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey Satogami paper
70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey cardboard
100 x 70 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Mirror #37, 2021Mirror paint on glass in black frame
30 x 40 cm
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Mirror #36 , 2021Mirror paint on glass in black frame
32 x 24 cm
12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey card board
100 x 70 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey card board
100 x 70 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey cardboard
50 x 70 cm
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in
Monika Grzymala, Mirror #38 , 2021Mirror paint on glass in black frame
30 x 40 cm
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Mirror #39 , 2021Mirror paint on glass in black frame
30 x 40 cm
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Gravity Drawing, 2022White acrylic ink on dark grey cardboard
70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Monika Grzymala, Ghost, 2021Black spray paint on semitransparent plastic sheet
270 x 300 cm
106 1/4 x 118 1/8 in
Monika Grzymala, Raumzeichnung (harvest of time) , 20221,7 km silver tape
site specific drawing
Monika Grzymala, Suminagashi (line of flight) , 2020 / 2022Folder containing floating ink drawings placed in transparent folders
31 x 29 x 8 cm
12 1/4 x 11 3/8 x 3 1/8 in
Monika Grzymala was born in Zabrze, Poland, in 1970. She lives and works in Berlin. Between 1990 and 1994 she partecipated at professional training in stone sculpting and restoration, from 1994 until 2001 she attended Visual Art studies at Universities in Karlsruhe, Kassel and Hamburg, Germany.
The main theme of Grzymala’s work is the line and drawing in three-dimensional space. In her installations, the artist uses various materials: adhesive tape, paper, wire, and even living trees. The creations are always adapted to the exhibition site, connecting different visible and non-visible aspects, in short, using structures of tape and site-specific drawings to transform the space into a new cosmos. The sculptural interventions seem to twist and reconfigure rectilinear space, endowing it with a new and vibrant, organic and expressive potential, much as a dancer might transform the space through which she moves. The tangled lines that Grzymala stretches through her installations gather and disperse, curve around, rise and fall. We follow the gathering movement not only with our eyes but with our own bodies as we walk through the exhibition. Each ephemeral installation is described by the kilometres of tape that make visible the physical and mental process of creation. The spatial drawings are delicate, transient, and almost ethereal, but also balanced out by a feeling of persistent sense, materiality, and gesture. She has exhibited in numerous solo show including: Helix (Raumzeichnung Uppsala), permanent site-specific installation, Atrium Hubben Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala (2018); Raumzeichnung (fusion) RMX, site-specific installation presented by Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Arte Fiera, Bologna (2017); Raumzeichnung (Solitär), site-specific installation, Haus der Kunst St. Josef Solothurn, Switzerland (2017); Formationen, Raumzeichungen, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt i.Opf. Bavaria (2017); ORBITAL MOTION, EACC (Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló), Castellón, Spain (2016); Linealogy, Crone Gallery, ARCO, Madrid (2015; Rückbau Villa Zanders Städtische Galerie, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (2014); Tree of Life, sculptural garden, ongoing roof top project, Woodner Company, Manhattan New York City (2014); Meros Saal der Meisterzeichnung, Kunsthalle (2013); The River II 49 North 6 East FRAC Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz (2013); Volumen The Morgan Library & Museum, Gilbert Court (Renzo Piano Extension), New York City (2013); Aerial, Galerie Crone, Berlin (2012); aumzeichnung Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London (2011); Ruptures, The Drawing Room, London (2009); Subterranean Cell Ausstellungsraum Samsa, Berlin (2007). Recent collective exhibitions include: Monika Grzymala, Shannon Bool, Kapwani Kiwanga, MAJ Musee d’Art de Joliette, Joliette Quebec (2018), Drawing in space, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2017), Structural Tensions, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence (2016); SpaceLiner group exhibition , Arter Space for Art, Istanbul (2015); The Making of Forming Something New generative drawing, Synthesis Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhus, Iceland (2014-2015).
Monika Grzymala was born in Zabrze, Poland, in 1970. She lives and works in Berlin. Between 1990 and 1994 she partecipated at professional training in stone sculpting and restoration, from 1994 until 2001 she attended Visual Art studies at Universities in Karlsruhe, Kassel and Hamburg, Germany.
The main theme of Grzymala’s work is the line and drawing in three-dimensional space. In her installations, the artist uses various materials: adhesive tape, paper, wire, and even living trees. The creations are always adapted to the exhibition site, connecting different visible and non-visible aspects, in short, using structures of tape and site-specific drawings to transform the space into a new cosmos. The sculptural interventions seem to twist and reconfigure rectilinear space, endowing it with a new and vibrant, organic and expressive potential, much as a dancer might transform the space through which she moves. The tangled lines that Grzymala stretches through her installations gather and disperse, curve around, rise and fall. We follow the gathering movement not only with our eyes but with our own bodies as we walk through the exhibition. Each ephemeral installation is described by the kilometres of tape that make visible the physical and mental process of creation. The spatial drawings are delicate, transient, and almost ethereal, but also balanced out by a feeling of persistent sense, materiality, and gesture. She has exhibited in numerous solo show including: Helix (Raumzeichnung Uppsala), permanent site-specific installation, Atrium Hubben Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala (2018); Raumzeichnung (fusion) RMX, site-specific installation presented by Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Arte Fiera, Bologna (2017); Raumzeichnung (Solitär), site-specific installation, Haus der Kunst St. Josef Solothurn, Switzerland (2017); Formationen, Raumzeichungen, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt i.Opf. Bavaria (2017); ORBITAL MOTION, EACC (Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló), Castellón, Spain (2016); Linealogy, Crone Gallery, ARCO, Madrid (2015; Rückbau Villa Zanders Städtische Galerie, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (2014); Tree of Life, sculptural garden, ongoing roof top project, Woodner Company, Manhattan New York City (2014); Meros Saal der Meisterzeichnung, Kunsthalle (2013); The River II 49 North 6 East FRAC Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz (2013); Volumen The Morgan Library & Museum, Gilbert Court (Renzo Piano Extension), New York City (2013); Aerial, Galerie Crone, Berlin (2012); aumzeichnung Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London (2011); Ruptures, The Drawing Room, London (2009); Subterranean Cell Ausstellungsraum Samsa, Berlin (2007). Recent collective exhibitions include: Monika Grzymala, Shannon Bool, Kapwani Kiwanga, MAJ Musee d’Art de Joliette, Joliette Quebec (2018), Drawing in space, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2017), Structural Tensions, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence (2016); SpaceLiner group exhibition , Arter Space for Art, Istanbul (2015); The Making of Forming Something New generative drawing, Synthesis Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhus, Iceland (2014-2015).
- David Schnell
- Michel Parmentier
- Michael Staniak
