Bettina BEREŚ (b. 1958), Important Things; 2003

Oil, canvas; 90 x 65 cm
Signed, dated, described on the back: , "Important Things"/ Bettina Bereś Krakow

From 1978 to 1981 she studied art history at the Jagiellonian University. From 1985 to 1989, she organizes and runs the Zderzak gallery in Krakow together with Marta Tarabuła. In 1995, he participates in the establishment of the gallery and the Otwarta Pracownia Association. Since 2016, she has been performing repetitions of Maria Pinińska-Bereś's performances : Action on Kitchen Instruments, The Approach Gallery, London in 2019, Only a broom, Action Lublin! Chapter 2, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin in 2018, Washing Your Hands, MONOPOL Gallery, Warsaw in 2017, Woman in the Window, BWA, Olsztyn in 2017, Living Pink, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow in 2016..Since 2004, she has been running a non-commercial picture rental, which "aims to popularize hanging pictures on walls. It makes it possible to interact with contemporary art without committing financial resources" (Regulations of the Picture Lending Service). A member of ZPAP. Paints and embroideries. Lives and works in Cracow.
The painting "Important Things" consisting of bottles in which inserted twigs are budding is a point of reference to the consumerist reality of excess and told needs. These "Terribly Important Things," as the caption at the bottom of the canvas proclaims, are enclosed in everyday life that is beautiful in its simplicity. The artist even uses an ascetic form by leaving the canvas partially raw, thus adding gravity to the evenly standing bottles, proudly displaying blooming twigs.