Poland

Ascension

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

100 x 100 cm

Ascension is actually my comment on the theme of death and being taken to heaven. Assuming heaven is a place of eternal bliss and happiness, the moment of ascension might as well start this eternal satisfaction. ;)

Phoenix and Atlas

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

30 x 70 cm • Framed: 34 x 74 cm

He is the Phoenix, reborn from ashes, bringing fire to melt the ceiling of ice separating the female figure from freedom. She is the Atlas, doomed to carry the burden of her own imprisonment. Her revival is slow, drop by drop, but inevitable. Once the last ice melts she will be free. And this is the story of the painting: after ten years from creating the original Phoenix and the Strongmen, exploring the team of rebirth, melting walls, freeing from chains I came across the excellent photo of the male nude by Jaap de Jonge. I immediately fell in love with his spectacular photograph and knew this was my next Phoenix, after receiving the author's permission to paint the piece I started work. The female figure's author I could not find ? [So if any of you knows the author, please- direct me!!] I had the photo sent by a friend years ago in the form of print-screen.And here is the result.I know that each of you will tell a different story when looking at this painting, but I will tell you mine.He is the Phoenix, reborn from ashes, bringing fire to melt the ceiling of ice separating the female figure from freedom. She is the Atlas, doomed to carry the burden of her own imprisonment. Her revival is slow, drop by drop, but inevitable. Once the last ice melts she will be free.

Baffled Euterpie

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

30 x 70 cm • Framed: 35 x 75 cm

Baffled Euterpie is the ancient muse of music, who, being immortal, has lived untill today. In the past to listen to music she would just sit next to musicians and enjoy, but nowadays she is faceing numeous challenges. In my painting she is trying to listen to one of our spectacular sound devices...but she has problems coping with technology...she is trying to plug in, but the plugs do not match.

Freedom

Diana Żarów • Rzeszów • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

50 x 70 cm

Water of life

Diana Żarów • Rzeszów • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

60 x 80 cm

Balancella

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

45 x 90 cm

Balansella is a piece of my newest series of abstract interiors. It was painted especially for an exhibition in Lodz- a city of industrial 19th century tenement houses . The girl is my version of a sculpture from one of our walking passages, and the place a spectacular two floor appartment in an old factory turned into living spaces. The idea behind the piece is to make you relax, focus for a while on the mystery of life...

Arow

Piotr Wozniak • Przerąb • Poland

2018 • Wax, acrylic paint, offset, board

70 x 100 cm • Framed: 76.5 x 106.5 cm

As specimen who subjected Earth to ourselves, we are getting closer to the point of no return. Are we becoming, in some perverse way, similar to God by sending down the plagues to ourselves? Information about the explosion of death brought by totalitarianism, human-induced cataclysms and epidemics are flooding us through mass media, causes contradistinction good from evil impossible to tell. Or maybe this impossibility is the result of lack of the question about the gist of evil? The vanitas motif in my artwork is to remind about inevitable evanescence and death. Nowadays perception of death became unduly simplified. The omnipresence of intrusive media chasing after bombshell leads us to insensitivity, we are becoming more and more resistant to the view of brutal crimes, bloody deaths and corpses. Simultaneously galloping digitalization, that marshals us using algorithms and blears the boundaries between real and virtual world, is dehumanizing our race. Imperfections following from the fragility of every human being combined with contemporary echoes of the biblical plagues, diseases and mortality will bring doom to humanity.

Universum

Diana Żarów • Rzeszów • Poland

2019 • oil on canvas

40 x 40 cm

I planted. I hanged .

judyta krawczyk • Contrada Montagna Avola • Italy

Poland • 2015 • oil on canvas

200 x 150 cm

selfportrait#oil on canvas# big format#clothes#plant# studio#expressionism figurative# realism

Phoenix and the Strongmen

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2007 • oil on canvas

30 x 70 cm • Framed: 37 x 77 cm

The piece is a titular painting of my exhibition 'FantAktis' in 2009 the frame is an integrated part of the image - I designed the piece together with the frame. It portrays the struggle between Ice and Fire, the revival and freeing of the cold beings by the personification of fire. The painting is framed and varnished.

Susanna and the Elders

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2019 • oil on canvas

80 x 120 cm

Susanna and drones is my answer to the often painted biblical motif of Susanna and the Elders. In my painting, I transferred Susanna to the 21st century, and placed three drones over her head as a symbol of technology invading the private space of each of us with evil intentions. There were two Elders in the biblical story of Susanna, but I added the third drone in my piece. Why? First of all, for love for a polish painter - Jacek Malczewski - who put three old people on his version of Susanna's story, but also because in the current world the voyeur can be peeped, and we must be aware that if one follows someone, they are not free from surveillance, either. The third drone can also be the symbol of the right figure of David, who has detected the conspiracy. Another element important to the image is the "Dry Shampoo" on the right. It is a reference to tradition, because Suzanna was usually portrayed taking a bath, and in our century, bathing can be done without water.

On the edge of thirst

Maja Borowicz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

73 x 100 cm