Patterns

The series of Zofia Kulik's latest works illustrates that the artist has worked out her own variations of already existing designs, taken from various epochs, traditions and cultural environments. She retains the basic structure of each pattern, making her own version of it, usually using the motifs which have appeared in her works before. She uses the textile designs of William Morris, a meticulous stylistics of Arab ornamentation, batik clothing patterns and Chinese floral decoration in the decorative arrangements of Patterns of her own. The artist reconstructs the rhythmical patterns, using the motifs which we know from her earlier works, especially in her symbolic repertoire of the representations from the 1990s. Skulls, decorative draperies, dry leaves, vegetables and flowers, spikes, bullet shells, and sharp endings of banner sticks return in the ornamental configurations of Patterns. The idea of samples is a logical continuation of the artist's collective passion and her archiving mania (in the form of black-and-white photography), together with her classifying of the visual material of both reality and art.