Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Mariusz Sołtysik
An interview by and
, curator
, curator
Rejecting any conventional classification artist Mariusz Soltysik ' s work focuses on the relationship between objective and subjective sensual perception, and the role of consciousness and intuition in this process. His projects consider the vital relationship between direct experience and visual intepretation, to draw the viewers through a multilayered journey. In his photON that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages he unveils a channel of communication between the inner landscape and outside reality to trigger the viewers ' perceptual parameters. One of the most impressive aspects of Soltysik ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of questioning the notions of memory, space and perception in our unstable contemporary age: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to his stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Mariusz and welcome to LandEscape: we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your multifaceted background. Are there any particular experiences that have influenced the way you currently conceive and produce your works? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to the aesthetic problem in general?
Hello. My understanding of aesthetics is not a constant, but a variable. It is a variable within a certain scope, perhaps quite like a sinusoid. Aesthetics, you are asking about was born in opposition to reality that surrounded me. I talk about very distant times, before 1989, I talk about the times of Communism and overwhelming greyness, where every expression of colour was an emblem of freedom. That was what Poland looked like before 1989. I was a teenager then, however it represented a missing element, I was trying to compensate for it in my works then. That reality was an overwhelming and sad picture, a picture of poverty mainly, imprisonment and powerlessness, as well as a fight for the