Ciro Beltrán represents the young generation of contemporary Chilean painters. In the latter half of 1980’s, he studied painting in Higher School of Arts, University of Santiago; in 1995-1998, he attended painting classes at the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf, Germany. This is probably the reason for why his painting appears equally strongly inspired by South-American and European sources.
By Lena Wicherkiewicz
Artist: Ciro Beltrán
Is painting still capable of telling any narrative any more? Past the silent monochrome pictures, isn’t a story told by a painting an anachronism? I guess, it is. But on the other hand, even a lonely light-blue, or an explosive red, do happen to be talkative.
By Lena Wicherkiewicz
Artist: Jacek Łydżba
Trees – corals. So colouristically exotic in the Polish landscape, and yet of familiar, almost Mazovian shapes… Phenomenal pseudo-willows, artefact-like organisms glaring with internal energy. A colourful colony of luminous quasi-botanical specimens.
By Lena Wicherkiewicz
Artist: Darek Pala
Concentric circles with multicoloured fragments, overlapping colours, luminosity, spinning impressions and kaleidoscopic volatility – the geometric compositions of Małgorzata Jastrzębska stem from the experience of the great abstractionists of the twentieth century – Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia and Frantisek Kupka. In her paintings, the colour is the form and the motif and the luminous spheres of purple and cadmium yellow, rose and green, black and white unfold according to a rigorous structure.
By Lena Wicherkiewicz
Artist: Małgorzata Jastrzębska
