Loneliness Painting

55 exhibitions, 30 art awards & 8 nominations, 25 publications. Born in 1987. Contemporary figurative artist creating three-dimensional paintings with her own technique using paper-mache, canvas and oil paint. The paintings reveal a sculptural vision of form, they surprise with their diversity in terms of structure and message, focusing on showing the aspect of human existence. The characters in her paintings are static, even rigid, as if frozen in certain poses, thus showing a specific social problem, which is loneliness, limitation, pressure or anonymity. The current subject of the works focuses on issues related to perception and transformation, but above all on empathy and the presentation of various emotional states of a human being. The departure from the traditional range of colors in favor of white allows for perfect accentuation of light and shade. Everything seems to be saturated with symbolic content, the author entrusts her thoughts to the artistic matter and impresses it with her own feelings. Gaya Lastovjak's art defies all classifications and definitions, it is subtle and at the same time critical. Her works have been featured in international exhibitions in Austria, Spain, Monaco, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy among others. Her paintings has been acquired by private collectors from Switzerland, USA, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Germany and other countries around the world. In addition, she is involved in sculpture / paper installations, performance and happening art.