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Mariusz Sołtysik
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
such artists as Dmitry Strakovsky, Eric Van Hove, Atsuhiro Ito, Sarah Browne, Garreth Kennedy, Wiktor Polak, Ela Wysakowska- Walters, Olga Bergman, Paco Simon, Kristaps Gulbis and many more. When I look at my history, I think that culture roots shape us, but they also may put a brake on our development. I feel, I am a European, I belong to Western civilisation. I need to mention here European Union – this project has got a particular value for me – a person born behind the Iron Curtain. EU is all about bringing together cultural diversity without the use of weapons as it used to be in the past.
Over these years you have experimented with a wide variety of different techniques, ranging from video and sculpture to drawing and installation. The figurative language you convey in your pieces is the result of a constant evolution of your searching for new means to express the ideas you explore in your works: your inquiry into the expressive potential of colors combines together figurative as subtle abstract feature into a coherent balance. We would suggest to our readers to visit http:// www. mariusz-soltysik. com in order to get a synoptic view of your work: in the meanwhile, would you like to tell to our readers something about the evolution of your style? In particular, would you shed light on your usual process and set up?
Experimenting … I think I would call it researching and expanding the field of activity. Perception is not only an act of recording, but also a concentration of a thinking eye / vision( Rudolph Anheim). If we assume this assertion to be right, there is a question of an individual approach versus