polish artist
Emilia Gąsienica-Setlak
acrylic
“There is something that intrigues me in
painting much more than all the other. Something
that can cause a huge stir and rapid heartbeat. It
is the color. Color that can dominate the whole
painting … may even dominate all the other
works in the museum hall. Gauguin said it best
when he wrote: „color, which is a vibration,
like music, can achieve what the most common,
yet elusive – inner strength.”
Born 1986 in Zakopane, Poland. Graduate in furniture design at the Complex
of Art High Schools in Zakopane (2005). In the year 2011 she graduated from
Faculty of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the Painting Studios of
Professor Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka and Professor Leszek Misiak. She has also
a university degree in graphic art in the Woodcut Studio of Professor Bogdan Miga.
At present she lives in Kryspinów, nearby Cracow and works as a fine arts teacher.
She practises painting and workshop graphics. The most important issues of her
artistic interests are dynamic colour, brief composition and their synthetic relations
to the surroundings. Her works have been used as a cover motives of books: “Evil
Spirit” (“Scriptum” Publishing
House, 2005) by the Bulgarian
absurdist fiction writer Svetoslav
Minkov and “Aquatic names of
the Vistula basin” (The Institute
of the Polish Language at the
Polish Academy of Sciences,
2013) by Doctor Urszula Bijak.
an author of 11 solo exhibitions
and participant of several dozen
group exhibitions. The works of
the artist can be found in Polish
and Hun