Izabella Gustowska was born in 1948 in Poznań where she currently lives and works. She earned her diploma in 1972 at PWSSP (now the Academy of Fine Arts) in Poznań. She is presently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
In her art, Izabella uses a range of different media but mainly uses photography and film. Thirty years of her work are divided into the following cycles: 1979-90 "Relative similarities", 1990-94 “Dreams", 1994-97 “Floating", 1996-2000 "Singing rooms", 2000 "Relative similarities II" and "L’amour passion", and lastly, 2002 “Life is a Story." Human nature, reality, and the female form are all major focuses in the majority of Gustowska's work. Her creations continuously circle back to questions regarding the nature of reality, the reality of experience, and the borders of what is, what was and what will be. Realizations accompany feelings of plunging into a cold abyss. The works give the impression of one floating effortlessly and seem to provide the ability to see oneself as they might be in a dream. This dream state connects reality with illusion and she is able to arrange her meaning both carefully and gently. Transparency of phantoms, ghosts, and reflections simulates weariness in a surreal environment. It has the ability to take away a feeling of tangible reality and gives the possibility of ease when creating an inside world.
Many times, Izabella is able to affect her audience by showing an aspect of transit. The consciousness of her work repeatedly halts at the edge of mystery. Subjected by the influence of this ambiguity, we are able to flow consciously into submission. She presents her audience with the creation of a game, showing that reality exists over any possibility to speaking of it. Repeatedly interlaced with passions, the art encompasses happiness and sadness, love and hate, calmness and anger. At times, the images of children appear. They display a memory, unreal and from far an assembled picture. Placed in caskets, they are hiding from an abyss. The first contact is forced, surrounded and absorbed. Izabella Gustowska not only creates precious and consistent works, but work filled with poetry. Izabella
Gustowska born in 1948 in Poznań, lives and works in Poznań. Diploma in 1972 inPWSSP (now Academy of Fine Arts)
in Poznań. She
is professor on Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
In her creation she uses different media. This basic are photography and film.
Artist works during her 30 years activity are divided on following cycles:
1979-90 Relative similarities 1990-94 Dreams, 1994-97 Floating 1996-2000
Signing rooms; 2000 Relative similarities II L’amour passion; 2002 Life is a
Story. Human, human reality, idea of woman’s body in dialogue between current
and inside authors reality are in the center of her attention. In artist’s
creation continuously are coming back questions about nature of reality,
reality of experience, about borders between resemblance and difference, about
borders of what is, with what was, what will be. Realizations accompany feeling
of plunging into cold abyss, making that human without any effort floats,
seeing himself, like in a dream. Dream connects reality with illusion,
sometimes it absorbs, not giving any possibility to come back, keeping it
inside. She appoints boarders of meanings carefully and gentle, mobilizing
consciousness with multiple noosed matters. Corporeality in Gustowska’s
realizations comes into surprising picture. Because now it stops being material.
Transparency of phantoms, ghosts, immateriality of reflections is like a
weariness in surreal environment. It takes away feeling of real, tangible
reality and gives possibility to easiness of creating inside world. Many times
artist touches and shows aspect of passing, process to which nothing can lean.
Realizations of Gustowska repeatedly stops on the edge of mystery. Subjected by
the influence of this mystery we flow consciously to submitting by many of it
stream. Presenting pictures, which does not describe and does not explain
world, creates game, showing, that reality exists over any chance of speaking
about it. Repeatedly interlaces passions – happiness with sadness, love with
hate, calmness with anger. It happens that some images of children appear. They
are like memory, unreal, from far summoned picture. Placed in a caskets, they
are hiding from oblivion. Multimedia realizations often accompany significant
sound – very precious element, shaping the atmosphere and assigning the way of
reception. By the first contact it crams, surrounds and absorbs. Izabella
Gustowska creates precious and very consistent work, full with poetry. Artist
very often points out in her realizations where her inspiration comes from –
creativity of famous artists such as V. Woolf and S. Plath.
