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exude this special kind of joy – the joy of creation.
They become a journey across the elements of
diverse matter which is exciting also for us – viewers.

The painter has already dealt with abstraction but
she stayed with figuration – not necessarily literal
one as she needs no literalness. No matter if we
mean the “Screens” or “Obsessions,” Barbara

Palka-Winek does not report the ordinary nature
of the world to us. We can say (with a high degree
of probability) that she paints mainly emotions
for which she tries to find the most accurate

shape, light and temperature of colour. Emotions
by definition are not lukewarm. The emotions in
Barbara Palka-Winek’s paintings are filled with red.
Red is not only a colour with a definite temperature.

It is placed, as she says, “in the middle of basic
elements of painting thus dividing the reality of
matter and spirit.”
This painting’s emotionality makes it a very

personal experience.
If we are attracted by the exceptional intensity of
colour, kept by the matter vividness and worried
by the emotional strength, the unusually personal

tone we find there will make us walk away with
more than just a mark of a painting reflected on
our retinas.
Jolanta Antecka  OBSESSIONITA, 2014 MONOTYPE ON PAPER 59X36.5 IN. | 150X93 CM.

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