Beata Ewa Białecka

Beata Ewa Białecka’s work combines the pictorial tradition of painting with modern semantics and contemporary concepts of the emancipatory social needs of women. The group scene from the painting Beauty & Hope is a kind of parable illustrated in the convention of Christian iconography that is characteristic of the artist. In her work, she subversively converts male Biblical characters into female characters. The scene therefore refers to a kind of ‘Santa Conversatione’ representation, but instead of the enthroned Madonna and Child, surrounded by the apostles, it features two women — two Madonnas with two babies, one of them female. The carefully constructed spatial tension and the limited colour scheme intensify the composition’s impact on the viewer. Amor Matris (maternal love) means being aware of one's own strength – women can pass on to each other in a mother-daughter or a sister-sister relationship

• Object type:
  oil painting on canvas
• Year:
  2012
• Dimensions:
  150 × 180 cm
• inv. no.:
  MNG/NOMUS/16/D
• Własność:
  Deposit of the City of Gdańsk, part of the Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art