Magdalena Orlik-Kilarska

"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the Subconscious, the mystery of what is Instinctive in the human Race."
A. Modigliani

Magdalena Orlik's painting is a world of multi-layered, textural images with subdued colors, resembling walls worn by the teeth of time, cave walls, paths and roads trampled by millions of feet, enlargements of living tissues under a microscope, fragments of nature.
For her, art is a ritual that heals, changes, discovers the deepest layers of consciousness, and allows contact with oneself.
The artist likes monochromatic combinations of earth colors, uses natural pigments, sand particles, and old, faded sheets of paper from bygone eras. Her work is situated on the border between non-figurative and figurative abstraction. In these earthy, dark or light collages, soft, organic color spots and their outlines are like fragments of reality, they do not allow you to cut yourself off from matter and slip into the unrestrained cosmos of interpretation, into the worlds of pure ideas. We are here on earth for a purpose, we cannot fly away, we have roots that remember the seeds from which they grew.
It refers to ancient techniques, creating in harmony with nature, using what was at hand, stone...

Master's degree in art at the Pedagogical University of Krakow (2007), diploma in drawing under the supervision of H. Cader-Pawłowska