LandE scape
Marta Sieczak
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
As for the background- well as you mentioned, is pretty solid. While getting my MA in 2014 I was wondering how did I survive 9 years of art education?! I ' ve been studying 4 years at the Art High School and 5 years at The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which includes also a semester abroad at The National Academy of Art in Sofia( Bulgaria). Now I ' m glad for having this traditionaleducation, although some struggles and frustrations on the way. It gave me the opportunity to explore the strong European art tradition, develop conceptual processing and research skills as well as motivated to explore by myself what ' s outside Europe and outside Academy... Openmindedness and awareness were, and are, just crucial. Of course also the easter-european culture in which I grown up had an impact on how I see the world and the art. The environment, people, landscapes, nature, city, architecture, weather, politics, artworks you’ ve seen – a mix of it creates a subconscious base, a kind of point of reference. That ' s not necessairly something determinating ones creation- but on the other side, why not?