Karolina Orzelek's work explores the perception of reality and its multiple underlying contradictions.
"Karolina Orzelek has made wood the best ally of her painting. She accepts a certain roughness and chooses not to hide it, sometimes letting the grain appear under the paint.
Karolina Orzelek's work explores the perception of reality and its multiple underlying contradictions.
"Karolina Orzelek has made wood the best ally of her painting. She accepts a certain roughness and chooses not to hide it, sometimes letting the grain appear under the paint. In return, the wood "influences the color" and offers the artist a unique field of exploration, revealing unsuspected nuances.
Karolina says that color is her "most natural means of expression," readily acknowledging the influence of the great colorists, the post-impressionists, and some Fauves. But it is as a filmmaker that she uses it to, she says, accentuate the strangeness of her images. This perverted, solarized color, as if subjected to some chemistry or infrared filter, creates an atmosphere, directs our perceptions, and imperceptibly reveals another reality.
Frédérique-Anne Oudin, ARTENSION n°150, July-August 2018
Born in Bielsko-Biala, Poland in 1992, Karolina Orzelek joined the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011 and has since participated in several group and solo exhibitions in France, Germany, and Switzerland. She is the 2020 winner of the Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize for Young Artists.
