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Agatha
Wojchiechowsky, untitled
(Arch.-Nr. 400) 1957,
chalk on paper
60,5
x 45 cm. Courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander / Delmes & Zander,
Cologne + Berlin
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Agatha
Wojciechowsky
Warum
ich meine Hände nicht ruhig halten kann
(Why
I can't keep my hands still)
20.
February 2015 – 11. April 2015
Opening:
Friday, 20.02., 6 – 9 pm
In
the current exhibition „Warum
ich meine Hände nicht ruhig halten kann“ (Why
I can't keep my hands still)
Galerie
Susanne Zander I Cologne features the mediumistic works by Agatha
Wojchiechowsky. Wojchiechowsky was born in 1896, in Steinach,
Germany. According to her own statement she experienced
her first visions at the age of four. In 1923 she emigrated to the
United States, where she worked as a maid, a seamstress, a laundress,
and a kitchen helper in various hotels. She
married and was a mother to two children.
After
World War II, she became a well-known
spiritual medium and a healer
to a small circle
of insiders. In 1951 she began to draw countless mediumistic drawings
in which eerie spectral faces can be perceived through a maze of
abstract forms and graphic symbols. “Mona”, the ghost of an
American
Indian girl, appeared to her one day and she began to draw according
to Mona's instructions: “Take a small pencil, place it on a sheet
of paper and watch what happens, immediately it, and I, began to draw
and we drew and drew for a long time”. This is how Agatha
Wojchiechowsky describes the beginning of her artistic activity.
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Agatha
Wojchiechowsky, untitled ,pen and ink drawing
33,6 x 30,2 cm. Courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander / Delmes & Zander,
Cologne + Berlin
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She
traveled extensively across the world before she finally settled in
New York, where she had her first solo exhibition at Cordier &
Ekström in the 1960s.In 1961, Wojchiechowsky received the priesthood
of the Universal Spiritist Association of the United States. Her work
was shown at Galerie Zwirner in Cologne, Galerie Springer in Berlin
and in various art brut exhibitions. Her paintings and drawings can
be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York, in
the Larry Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield (Connecticut)
and in the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as in some museum and
private collections in Europe and the United States. Agatha
Wojchiechowsky died
in 1986 in the
United States. Galerie
Susanne Zander first accessed the work of Agatha Wojciechowsky
through Rudolf Zwirner.
Agatha Wojciechowsky
"Warum ich meine Hände nicht ruhig halten kann"
Opening: 20.2.2015, 6-9 pm
Galerie Susanne Zander I
Antwerpener Straße 1
50672 Cologne
Tue-Fr 12-6 pm
Sat 11-4 pm
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