A Dose of Painting - full presentation 2018

MARCIN KOWALIK

A Dose of Painting

MARCIN KOWALIK

A Dose of Painting creating art for paediatric hospitals

2014-2018

About the project:

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Children little patients create models

Exhibition unveiling of the painting in a paediatric hospital

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Painters sponsor’s employees create paintings based on models

HOSPITAL HEALS, PARENTS CHEER UP AND HOLD HANDS, WE BRING EVERYDAY, OUTSIDE WORLD AND THE JOY OF CREATION.

Volunteers, whilst playing a crucial role in the project, are being managed by Marcin Kowalik during its every stage. These consist of:

Workshops with children

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Creating a painting

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The Exhibition

A DOSE OF PAINTING IS AN ART THERAPY PROJECT WHICH TRULY HAS LONG LASTING MEDICINAL RESULTS ON THE PARTICIPANTS. TEAMWORK AND A MUTUAL DESIRE TO CREATE ARE TWO MAIN FACTORS BEHIND THE IDEA OF THE PROJECT. THE ACT OF PAINTING LETS US FORGETABOUT MANY THINGS, AS WELL AS DISCOVER THE SHEER JOY OF CREATING. WE PAINT PAINTINGS FOR CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS THESE PAINTING ARE EXCEPTIONAL, AS THEY ARE BASED ON WORKS CREATED BY LITTLE PATIENTS. JOIN US, LET THE GAME BEGIN!

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Warsztaty z dziećmi

Zajęcia plastyczne Dzieci przebywające w szpitalu lub w domu dziecka tworzą z plasteliny przestrzenne „makiety” na zadany temat. Do tej pory były to: „Za moim oknem”, „Ogród”, „Kosmos”, „Gra”, „Las” i „Podwodny świat”. Dzieci na zajęciach uczą się jak stworzyć własną wypowiedź plastyczną na bazie prostego tematu. Pobyt w szpitalu okazuje się nie taki straszny, kiedy można go spędzić na zabawie.

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Malowanie obrazu

Creating a painting Painting with volunteers: The volunteers, under the guidance of Marcin Kowalik, Ph.D., collaboratively paint on a large-scale canvas , which is based on the 3D designs of the children created in Stage I. The first step is transferring the 3D designs onto the surface of the canvas. The unique twist here is that the collaborative painting is a ‘art within art’ – the children’s original plasticine works are re-interpreted by the volunteers on the canvas to create a large-scale painting.

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The Exhibition- unveiling of the painting After all the work is concluded an official gala takes place, during which the painting is unveiled and handed over to the hospital and its little patients- an artwork whose history directly flows out of that place and tells a story about it.

Children get to view the effects of their work while the hospital gets a brand new, priceless artwork- one, which was created by their own patients.

The Exhibition

An exhibition of a ‘Garden’ painting in Saint Ludwig’s Paediatric Hospital in Cracow

We wish to enliven kids’ artistic sensibilities and imagination.

Stanisław Stępniewski, Saint Ludwig’s Paediatric Hospital in Cracow’s director

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Projects so far

‘Outside my window’ | 150cm x 250cm, acrylic on canvas, 2014

‘Garden’ | 130cm x 320cm, acrylic on canvas, 2014

Outer Space | 150cm x 250cm, acrylic on canvas, 2015

‘Game’ | 130cm x 200cm, acrylic on canvas, 2017

‘Forest’ | 130cm x 200cm, acrylic on canvas, 2017

‘Island’| 100cm x 130cm, acrylic on canvas, 2015

‘The Internet’| 125cm x 200cm, acrylic on canvas, 2017

‘Letters’ | 130cm x 200cm, acrylic on canvas, 2017

‘The Underwater World’ | t130cm x 435cm, triptych, acrylic on canvas, 2017

‘The Underwater World’| 130cm x 270cm, acrylic on canvas, 2017

City of dreams’ | diptych125x200 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2017

The ‘City of dreams’ painting is a diptych.

One part of it went to an orphanage in Bochnia, whilst the other half- as a token of gratitude for participation in the project- was given to the Cracow branch of the Capgemini company.

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We have been honoured

‘I haven’t held a brush for ages; I took it with some paints and created something that should resemble a wind-swept tree and a mushroom :)’.

Rafał Sonik | Rafał Sonic, racing driver, Dakar race victor

‘I remember that it was the world of books and stories such as this that helped me to survive during stressful times, hence it is my belief that imagination is vital.’

Marek Kamiński | Polar explorer

Piotr Foreman Foryś, musical Artist, Pudelsi ‘I thought that the butterfly I created was going to be smaller, but it seemed to have grown overtime... :)’

Przemysław Miarczyński, Olympic athlete, windsurfer ‘Through my participation I’m trying to pass on some positive energy.

I think it’s a marvellous project!’

‘Little patients leave hospital with a gift saying: I’ve been here and I strove to become an artist, a painter’

Elżbieta Kraszewska, project coordinator

‘Participation in such a project presents us with the possibility of making people smile.

It makes us happy.’

‘This project spoke to me from the very beginning for it combined all the thing I hold dear- helping children, personal touch and experience and artistry, of which there can never be enough.’

Franek, a volunteer ‘I do it for fun’

‘Frankly, it was an amazing experience. These kids have an amazing imagination’.

Jolanta Straus, a volunteer

‘Artistic workshops is what these kids really needour patients tend to respond with overwhelming positivity towards such activities. hey learn altruism and selflessness. It’s very pedagogical.’

Elżbieta Adamkiewicz-Drożyńska, Titular Professor, Doctor of Science, hospital department head

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)corporate responsibility for their impact on society.

A Dose of Painting is a project fulfilling companies’ CSR via: • accomplishing a social mission (helping ill children) • integrating and inspiring employees (creative and cooperative acts for a righteous cause instead of traditional team building exercises) • creating a positive PR image for the sponsor.

‘For me, a Dose of Painting exhibition proved to be a perfect union and creative cooperation of science and artistry in order to create something fun for the youngest and the one a little older. Marcin Kowalik’s passion for that kind of projects is clearly visible on a painting created by united workings done by himself, the kids and UPS employees. It was a real show of artistic creativity achieved via teamwork and the final product shall enamour the hospital’s little patients for years to come. Anna and project team UBS Art Decoder- you have my sincerest thanks for the invitation and who knows, perhaps next time I shall take cave in and paint something myself!’

Alessandro Moretti | Executive Director, UBS

We had the pleasure of collaborating with:

Samodzielny Publiczny Dziecięcy Szpital Kliniczny w Warszawie Wojewódzki Specjalistyczny Szpital Dziecięcy im. św. Ludwika w Krakowie Szpital Onkologiczno-Pediatryczny w Gdańsku Dom Dziecka w Bochni

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Project’s creator

Marcin Kowalik, Doctor of Science, artist, painter Lecturer at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department, of which he is also an alumni. Marcin is a painter and an installation and object artist, as well as an adept of performance. Frequents as an organiser, curator and patron of the arts. Took part in over 40 different exhibitions, both in Poland and abroad; over 20 of them were of an individual naturethese took place, among others, in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Leipzig, Dublin, Knoxville, Warsaw and Cracow (in the National Museum). Minister of Culture and National Heritage Stipendist, a laureate of the ‘ARS quaerendi’ prize. His works can be found among the collections of the National Museum in Gdańsk, Clifford Chance Collection and several smaller private collections around the world. Founder of the ‘Faith in Painting’ scholarship aimed at students from graduating classes from his alma mater in Zamość.

www.kowalik.art.pl/obrazwpigulce

‘A painting makes one contemplative.

Kids stop by, observe it, maybe even find various discussion-worth elements that may influence their persona for the rest of their lives’- Marcin Kowalik, painter