Vistul Art

The Vistulart project was formed to create a series of collaborative works we had in our minds from a long time. There are two of us, Dariusz Plutecki and Dagmara Świrska, a scientific mind and a humanist. We’re both self-taught artists based in Warsaw, Poland. We’re working together as the new media art duo and it is not a secret we’re also a couple in private live. Our passionate pursuit of art was one of the things that brought us to each other over 15 years ago and got us where we’re now.

We like to call ourselves a thread painters. In other words, we create artworks using nothing else but miles of a fine sewing thread in different colors, types and thicknesses. Apart from a wooden board and a few hundred steel nails, it is the threads that are our paramount medium we create the entire picture with. We work on the basis of our own technique, that has nothing to do with the classical painting technique. The threads are our sole paints, there is absolutely nothing put on the threads or underneath.

Our adventure with this technique has started about three years ago, with pandemic time. Lockouts and all the stay-at-home orders turned out an opportunity for us. We have started a new chapter in our life, focusing on living for a pa...

- Art exhibit at Stalowa Modern Art Gallery in Warsaw, Poland
07 June 2022 - 26 June 2022
https://galeriastalowa.pl/en/217__vistulart
https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/VistulArt/DF5A95D5CBBF3DF8

- Art exhibit at ArteHotel in Zamosc, Poland
September 2022
https://galeriastalowa.pl/en/222__vistulart
https://www.facebook.com/hotelartezamosc/posts/pfbid0S3WLAncu9pArNKRxDzJcuQUU7rF92Dm1smppKwt7iaxgYzijAuy1t7TXPn874zD8l

- Attendance of four of our works at a collective exhibition: Winter Salon 2022/23
(14 December 2022 - 28 January 2023) at Stalowa Modern Art Gallery in Warsaw, Poland;
https://galeriastalowa.pl/en/233__salon-zimowy-2022-23

- Exhibition during the Steel Street Festival, June 2023