Pain Painting

www.gayalastovjak.com 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. The author has participated in a couple of exhibitions, both collective and individual ones as well as cooperated with auction houses and galleries: Desa Unicum, DNA, SDA, Fineart's, Next Gallery also ATArt Gallery, Saatchiart, ArtMo, Singulart, ArtinHouse, Monshareart Gallery and the Viennese Polskajungart. Gaya Lastovjak's works have been featured in international exhibitions in Austria, Portugal and Italy. Her paintings has been acquired by private collectors from Switzerland, USA, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Germany among others. In addition, she is involved in sculpture / paper installations, performance and happening art. The first success of 2022 was the acceptance of the artist's works for participation in the 14th Art Biennale in Florence, which will take place in 2023. She was also invited by the Van Gogh gallery (Madrid) to participate in the Monaco International Contemporary Art Fair. This year, one of the artist's paintings was featured on the cover of the art and poetry magazine Woven Tale Press (New York).