Oblicze ziemi / The face of the earth Painting

www.svetlanabiletnicova.com Visual artist. Born in 1981 in Odessa. She lives and works in Cracow. From 2000-2004 she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in Prof. Stanisław Rodziński’s studio), in the years 2002-2008 she studied interior design at that Academy of Fine Arts (vote of approval in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Głowacki). Co-founder of the „Seven” artistic group, within which two international projects were realized: Confrontationen/Confrontations, (Berlin, Cracow) in 2006 and Far - Near (Cracow, Kiev) in 2009. She opened a doctoral dissertation in the field of fine arts, in the artistic discipline of fine arts at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2019. Author of painting series: „Sonder” (since 2018); „America new experience” (from 2017); „Deja vu” (from 2014); „The Shy” (from 2013); „Deja vu” (from 2014); „Fragment of light” (since 2010); „Face to Face” (since 2003) in 2006 and Far - Near (Cracow, Kiev) in 2009. She developed a project of polychromy for the chancel in the Saint Archangel’s Church in Bielce, I draw inspiration for my visual worlds from various sources. Many motives come from experiences, emotional delights and euphoria. I like to paint people in dialogue with myself the most. I am inspired by my feelings expressed by facial expressions or body gestures. I wish to capture emotional of a person, their moods, reactions to the world and to the other person. I use a wide range of situations and emotional states from joy to sadness, from disappointment to delight. I am also interested in painting a figure in relation to space and landscape. In my painting compositions I formally refer to colour field painting, art informel abstract expressionism and metaphorical art of figuration. I often concentrate on surreal imaginary situations. For this purpose I use the traditional oil technique on the linen canvas substrate. In the last period of my work I have tried to combine various types of measures characteristic of many fields of art: painting, drawing, mural, collage, artistic fabric, handmade paper, making interior design and I will continue to search for the right form for creative solutions. The need to identify myself, experiment, discover „my own self”, encourages me to abandon what was an affirmation of the external world to distinguish what we call the internal world, the emotional one.