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 Kama Zboralska about Maria DziopakMaria Dziopak paints first of all landscapes of vivid, warm, and fabulous colors, coming as if from a dream of paradise in which the world is friendly and happy. Flowers of rich green, red and purple, flooded with sunshine, make even crumbling huts look picturesque. Fascinated by nature, Maria spontaneously registers what has appealed to her sensitivity: a village church, a small bridge between two meadows, a lane cutting across corn fields. Maria thinks that true can only be what ones eye can see in nature. She also paints women, though Dziopak's females are not as optimistic as her processed nature. Melancholic, sad, and thoughtful, they are more sensitive, more susceptible to the transition of things. Her women are not joyful, since they are like butterflies. And we all know that butterflies, despite being beautiful, are usually sad because their life is only very brief. Maria's first works show images of her native Silesia, though the Artist herself admits that the sadness of those paintings was not depressing, but romantic. Dziopak frequently moved homes and when she came to live in Cracow, she fell in love with this unique city she painted its historic streets, houses, courtyards, trying to render their distinctive atmosphere. Having moved to Warsaw, she plunged into the flowery sight of Polish countryside. Maria Dziopak enjoys frequent travels. On the return, she conveys her emotions in the language of painting. Her stay in Moscow is testified to by the paintings showing Orthodox churches, monumental buildings, and God-forsaken, ruined streets. Enchanted by the primeval, severe, yet elevated at the same time nature of Norway, she later frequently reiterated the motif of nature untouched by humans. Her trip to Turkey climaxed with the Gold Medal of Lord Mayor of Istanbul awarded for her oeuvre. And as much as the Artist is inspired by distant exotic corners of the world, her art is dominated by an idyllic beauty of Polish landscapes, realistic in their composition and stylistically related to Impressionism. Kama Zboralska "Art of Investing in Art" A Guide to Art Galleries, Warszawa 2004 | |
| Galeria SD, designed by Michał Piecuch, 2004 |