Gaya Lastovjak
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 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.
In 2021, her works was included in three foreign publications: Arabic Independent, Nomads Lifestyle (Italy) and in the artistic newsletter Photographize Arts Culture (USA). In the same year, she began taking part in international art competitions. Since then, Gaya has won over ten awards.
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). In July, she will be participating in the 59th Biennale di Venezia 2022 at Musa Pavilon - courtesy of the Musa International gallery.
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.
Works and lives in Cracow (Poland).
The painting ”Disappearance” touches on the theme of death and its closeness. It evokes a lot of reflection with an existential tint. In this work I wanted to draw attention to the harmony of scarcity, deficiency and wholeness. Even though the painting was made in 2021, looking at the current world situation, it turns out to be in a new light. Both characters are incomplete, as if in a state of decay. They look at each other in a gesture of farewell, there is also an element of melancholy or longing for something lost - youth, family and finally life. The painting was awarded in several competitions and appeared in art publications, but not yet shown live to a wider audience.
Video with the painting: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQFuZZbJHR0