LOKAL_30 AT FRIEZE NEW YORK Maria Anto, Magda Moskwa, and Ewa Juszkiewicz
1-5 May 2019 | Frieze Art Fair | Randall’s Island Park, New York, NY | booth B9
Through the presentation of works by Maria Anto (1936-2007), Magda Moskwa (1967) and Ewa Juszkiewicz (1984) at Frieze Art Fair 2019, local_30 gallery from Warsaw aims to highlight Surrealist motifs in the work of these artists, and refute the claim about the absence of Surrealism in Polish art.
Maria Anto’s work represents the tradition of Surrealism, metaphorical painting and naive art – she was often compared to Henri Rousseau, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and René Magritte.
Magda Moskwa who is called the rebel of painting is often associated with turpism: she is known for intimate portraits of women marked by the stigmas of experiences of the passage rituals, translated into extremely strong and transgressive female characters.
© Maria Anto La Chasse, 1967 olej, płótno / oil on canvas 90,00 x 110,00 cm. Courtesy of lokal_30 
© Magdalena Moskwa bez tytułu / Untitled, nr. 96, 2019 zaprawa kredowa, olej i półka / chalk mortar, oil and shelf 23,00 x 18,00 x 21,00 cm. Courtesy of lokal_30 
© Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2019 olej na płótnie / oil on canvas 150,00 x 115,00 cm. Courtesy of lokal_30 
©Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Charles Howard Hodges), 2019 olej na płótnie / oil on canvas 115,00 x 90,00 cm. Courtesy of lokal_30 
© Ewa Juszkiewicz Ewa Juszkiewicz, “Untitled (after John Singleton Copley), olej na płótnie / oil on canvas, 80,00 x 60,00 cm. Courtesy of lokal_30
The youngest painter in the group shown, Ewa Juszkiewicz, continues the legacy of Polish Surrealist tradition in a fresh contemporary approach and with the painting skill of classic master painters. Her works challenge the portrait tradition by re-interpreting female portraits known from art history.
Post-war Polish Surrealism was created by personalities who shaped their world vision without affiliation with groups or movements. After 1945, Surrealism functioned as a buffer zone to react to the collective trauma of WWII and escape everyday life under Socialism.
From the left: Ewa Juszkiewicz and Jerry Saltz at Frieze. lokal_30 booth. Courtesy of Ewa Juszkiewicz 
From the left: Ewa Juszkiewicz, Jerry Saltz, Agnieszka Rayzacher at Frieze. lokal_30 booth. Courtesy of Ewa Juszkiewicz
lokal 30 at Frieze Art Fair website
local_30 at Frieze art fair is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
