Born in 1987 - Lithuania

Lives and works in Krakow - Poland

Self-taught artist

Education - MA in art history - University of Warsaw

 

 

Contemporary figurative artist creating white 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.

 

Most often, the artist  raises question about duality of man, that is good and evil, which is part of human nature. In her paintings, thanks to the specific gestures of the silhouettes, she shows valuable human qualities, such as unity, help or love, as well as negative ones, such as jealousy or lies. The artist glorifies good traits and criticizes bad ones. She also engages in a dialogue with current events and phenomena. 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.

 

Gaya Lastovjak's works have been featured in exhibitions in Austria, Spain, Monaco, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Holand, USA. Her paintings has been acquired by private collectors from Switzerland, USA, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, United Arab Emirates among others.

 

 

 

Most important exhibitions:

 

- Florence Art Biennial

- Monaco Art Fair

- Warsaw Art Fair

- Artexpo Basel 

- Rome Art Week (RAW) 

- Venice Art Biennial - Musa Pavilon

- Sculpture Biennial LABO

- Venanzo Crocetti Museum in Rome

- Van Gogh Gallery in Madrid

- The Other Art Fair in Saatchi Gallery

- Emporium Brazil Design Gallery in Miami

- BWA Sandomierz

 

 

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In addition, she is involved in sculpture / paper installations, performance and happening art.