Information about the exhibition: 🎨 Vernissage: September 18, 2025, 7:00 PM 🗓️ Exhibition duration: September 18 – October 10, 2025 ⏰ Exhibition opening hours: - Wednesday-Friday: 12:00 PM-6:00 PM - Saturday: 12:00 PM-6:00 PM - Sunday: closed Please check the gallery's work calendar on the HOME page. 📍 Location: Gallery 3U10 (Jana Karola Chodkiewicza Street 3, unit u10, 02-593 Warsaw, Mokotów) The presented paintings are contemporary vedutas on the border of abstraction. Their language is not precise lines or realistically rendered forms; instead, Wnuk-Moskalska builds her compositions with thickly applied oil paint, whose texture becomes an equal protagonist of the artwork. These painterly "reliefs" captivate the eye with the incredible energy of gesture that the artist employs. Warsaw – a city of contrasts, where glass and steel meet greenery, and modern architecture grows in the rhythm of light and shadow. The exhibition "The City That Reflects the Sky" is a painterly interpretation of this dynamic landscape, but not in the form of literal recording or photographic documentation. The artist invites the viewer to enter a space between what is recognizable and what emerges only from the suggestion of texture and color. The painter was inspired by areas such as Rondo Daszyńskiego, Plac Europejski, Rondo ONZ, or Al. Jana Pawła II, as well as many other places where the heart of modern Warsaw is concentrated. The artist traversed these locations multiple times at different times of the day, observing how they change depending on the light, weather, and mood of the city. She photographed, sketched, and composed collages to transform them in her studio into paintings that do not "show" the city but rather convey its rhythm and atmosphere. "The City That Reflects the Sky" is a symbolic title, as searching for literal reflections in glass surfaces here would be in vain. But standing before the canvas, one can feel the "reflection" of the impression this city evokes in the artist. Glass, steel, and concrete appear here as fields of color, intersected by geometric arrangements, juxtaposed with contrasting textures. The viewer, standing before these paintings, does not receive a map of the city but an invitation to their own journey through spaces woven from memory, emotions, and associations. Echoes of familiar places can be found here, as well as fragments that exist only in Wnuk-Moskalska's painterly imagination. In this way, the artist combines the tradition of veduta with the language of contemporary painting, freeing it from literalness and giving it a more intimate and subjective dimension. It is a story about Warsaw not as a collection of buildings but as a living organism with many stories to tell. Does it also speak about you? Text author: Patrycja Kudła-Łopińska
