Patrycja PIĘTKA (b. 1998), And looks up through the gray waters, 2023

oil, canvas; 150 x 100 cm;
Signed, dated and author-described on the back: 2023 / I LOOK UP / THROUGH GREY WATERS / Patrycja Piętka

Provenance:
private collection, Cracow

Image exhibited and reproduced:
Patrycja Piętka. Opowiedzieć niepokój, OKP Wieża Ciśnień, 10.11.2023-02.12.2023, Kalisz 2023 (color ill.).

Painter, stage designer and creator of installations, graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She defended her diploma with the title "Vargtimmen/Godzina wolka" realized in the studio of Prof. Miroslaw Sikorski with distinction in 2022. In her work she refers to the night as a season of anxiety and a source of melancholy. She is inspired by the language of film, the specificity of building tension with the help of images. She uses a monochromatic color palette, referring to the aesthetics of negative photography. The artist draws on philosophy and her work is firmly rooted in one of the basic philosophical disciplines that studies the properties of being, which is metaphysics. In her works she sensitively captures the emotionality of nature, painting is a kind of spiritual quest for her.