Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
signed, dated, and labeled on the reverse: 'Patrycja Piętka | 2019 | "79 km"'
Biography
She graduated from the General Secondary School of Fine Arts in Katowice. In 2017, she began her studies at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she earned her diploma in 2022 under the guidance of Professor Mirosław Sikorski. She is currently a sophomore in the set design program, trying her hand at student film projects for the first time. She has collaborated with numerous galleries in Kraków. In May 2021, her first solo exhibition, “Depth,” took place at the Art Agenda Nova gallery in Kraków. She participated in the “PUZZLE” exhibition in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) as part of Polish Culture Week, 2019; “At Your Fingertips” as part of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2019: SKOK KRAKERS, 2019; “Drawing About Drawing—Black on White: 200 Years of Drawing at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts,” organized by the National Museum in Kraków. In 2019, she received an honorable mention at the 2nd Winter Salon of Young Artists at the Zofia Weiss Gallery and an honorable mention in the CALL4ARTS2019 competition organized by the 4Style Foundation. The artist is interested in the themes of night, anxiety, and melancholy. She also draws inspiration from film culture, exploring the psychology of characters and the specific ways tension is built, as well as the symbolism and subtext hidden within the layers of reality. In her canvases, she calmly walks through nighttime streets illuminated by the solitary lights of windows, and travels by train through the evening wilderness of the forest. Using a night-vision device, he observes the lives of animals after dark, attempting to understand the atmosphere of oppression and the dread hanging in the misty air. The world of childhood fears hidden in the basement intertwines with an emotional nature whose instincts are just as unbridled as our own.
