Michalina Czarniecka
Steam Angel, 2023.
oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Michalina Czarniecka (aka Mees-Hell Sang) was born in the late 20th century. She comes from an artistic family and is a third-generation painter. She has been actively involved in art for thirty years.
Mees-Hell is one of the artists who are unruly. She freely reaches for numerous forms of expression - from painting, printmaking and photography to poetry and various literary forms. She knows no compromise or rest, she plays with conventions - having achieved mastery in a style of a certain kind, she does not remain faithful to it for too long - she experiments, searches, tangles paths, balances on the edge of dream and reality - she draws the viewer into the orbit of questions, doubts and emotions that trouble her, she sets him next to her allowing him to peep at reality through a keyhole - sometimes she gives him a magnifying glass at his disposal, and sometimes a telescope - she baits him, but does not provide answers.
On the one hand, Mees-Hell's paintings allow us to appreciate her artistry and unique kind of sensitivity, on the other - they are proof that the artist is perfectly comfortable with academic painting, but she is equally keen to refer to Baroque art, medieval style, Art Deco, steampunk, oriental art, the canon of icon writing, or surrealism - she juggles conventions - from exaggerated dolls and baronesses, through realistic and oneiric portraits, Steam Angels, figural forms, to theto the surrealist series 'Once upon a time with my brother... and circus'. The theme of escape inward, separation from the direct experience of the world and people as distant planets, is often present in her art.
Ksenia Kaczmarek
