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 | Age: | 30 | | Location: | Poland | | Website: | www.altealeszczynska.art.pl
| | About artist: | Altea Leszczyńska after taking her master’s degree in linguistics (English, French and Spanish) worked for a few years as a translator and university teacher.
She has published her literary and publicistic texts in Aleje 3, Panoptikum and Fahrenheit. Since March 2006 she is a member of the Association of the Encouragement of Fine Arts “Zachęta” in Częstochowa. In 2007 she started Post-graduate Studies at the University of Fine Arts in Krakow. | | About art: | She handles oil painting, copper plate engraving, dry needle engraving, litography and performance.
The painter presents in a simple and symbolic manner things that rouse a feeling of aversion: blood, intestines, mucus. Some of the presented works have been inspired by the paintings of such famous artists as Botticelli, Degas or Matisse. However on their works the body is shown as a sexual object whereas on Leszczynska's paintings the body is deprived of anything that may make it desirable. More over all the bodies stripped of the exterior shield look alike, the barriers of race, denomination or sexual orientation disappear. A skinned human body is only and more than a symbol, that is why the figures are not painted too precisely.
Such technique emphasises the conventionality of limits which separate bodies from mind and soul.
The painter is impressed by the human extreme emotions (like fear, joyfulness or pleasure)or by the lack of them. The figures devoid of feelings become silent observers who look in a provocative manner on the spectators and again the centuries-old relations between the observer and the object are broken down. Surrealism of the presented situations stresses the distance of the painter towards the subject. The paintings destitute the pompous artificiality and pseudoartistic pathos "speak" in a simple and comprehensive language and enforce the spectator to look deeply inside his/her soul.
Another subject that the Leszczyńska deal with in her arts is Jewish culture and traditions. She is deeply impressed by the symbolism of Torah and Kabbala. |
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