{"product_id":"marta-czok-senza-titolo-2","title":"Marta Czok - Untitled","description":"The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones. Marta Czok's genre scenes always have an ironic, grotesque quality, likely with some allegorical and satirical connection. The language used has strong connections with the German New Objectivity artistic movement. The same simplified and childish interpretation of realism based on a marked plasticity is present. However, Marta Czok distances herself from the cynical nature of painters like George Grosz or Otto Dix in lashing out at their own society with lucid irony; rather, hers is a jovial and disenchanted depiction of a popular character.\r \n\r \nThe similarities between Marta Czok's painting style and German New Objectivity are evident primarily in its formal aspects. Like the German masters, she favors an exaltation of the subjects' plasticity, inflating their limbs with a rounded form. Her deformations are caricatural, yet dictated by a taste that seems to be a contemporary reinterpretation of Pieter Bruegel's festive folk scenes. Marta Czok recontextualizes that typically Flemish cheerfulness into a magical realism, where the geometric construction of the figures, made of regular modules, spheres, and cylinders, is strong. Her compositions are distinguished by the compression of the figures within a complex space, which reveals a wide variety of details, curious details, and gestures that make Marta Czok's works always extremely stimulating for the viewer. A taste for a disenchanted narrative prevails in an atmosphere that combines reality with magic, also thanks to the compact application of color and a palette that always focuses on pastel shades.\r \n\r \nAn Englishwoman of Polish descent, Marta Czok was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1947. The following year, she moved with her family to London, where she completed her studies at St Martin's School of Art, participating repeatedly in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Over the past 35 years, she has exhibited her work throughout Europe and America. Among her most recent public exhibitions are Mother Rome at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome in 2016; the retrospective exhibition at the Castello di Calatabiano, organized by the MACS Museum in Catania; Icons\u0026Idols, a multimedia exhibition held in 2013 at the MACRO Testaccio in Rome – La Pelanda; the solo exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, which was held in April and May 2017. Marta Czok has also worked on traveling exhibitions such as the solo exhibition dedicated to children in war and the Holocaust held at Palazzo Ferrajoli (Rome), the Civic Museum of Albano and Palazzo Antico Ghetto (Padua), and the exhibition About Us, on the theme of humanity, held at Palazzo dei Papi (Viterbo), Palazzo Zuckermann (Padua), and Palazzo Zenobio (Venice). Marta Czok lives and works in Castel Gandolfo.","brand":"Bartolomei Silvia abbassata da 8000 a 2800€","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218008158594,"sku":"SBAR001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/68E336DE-DC41-4ABC-8C5E-62C846C4F114-scaled.jpg?v=1768470144","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/marta-czok-senza-titolo-2","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}