Izabela Oldak
cycle Incarnations Mokosz 50x70cm, acrylic, ecoline on canvas, 2012.
How has your art developed since you left school? Can you tell us your biggest influences in art and how they have affected your work?
objects. I also met amazing people and artists there, among them his last wife Małgorzata Borowska. From my new friendships and trips to that amazing place I started to get the idea to unite artistic- esoteric underground and to not be afraid in using art as magical tool.
Recently The biggest influence upon my art was a discovery of a magical place Piastowska 1/7 in Katowice, which for 50 years was a working and living space of an artist: Andrzej Urbanowicz. I got there already after his death, but the place still has his spirit, it is full of his artworks, and magical
Another biggest influence and creation of site-specific perception I developed thanks to many travels and projects I did abroad, especially in Estonia, Serbia and in the Philippines.
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