LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 154

Land scape
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