Marta Tomasik

To a certain degree, the starting point and theme of Marta Tomasik’s pictures is emptiness. Emptiness of real places and existing spaces, but functioning on the margins of reality. Emptiness as a space devoid of meaning or sense, therefore indifferent and absent – an anti-space. In Marta Tomasik’s works, the message is communicated through the absence of what is presented, not through its visualization. Emptiness is not a screen, but rather a space which we can reach by ripping it apart. Perhaps the need for a meaning is still in the picture, and perhaps it must be sought beyond it. The artist herself is focused on a creative process. The process which becomes narration, which integrates the content with the nature of the painting medium, the surface and shape of the sheet. The integration is free of cognitive or mental speculation. It is a state which allows to depart from representation. And it is a search for a meaning at the end of the historical understanding of a painting. Here, the content of a painting is not to be found on its surface. Attention must be shifted towards awareness itself, momentarily suspending the premise that the painting exists. It remains valid, if formally modified, which leads to broadening the receptive awareness. There is intention behind the emptiness of Marta Tomasik’s pictures. It is the answer to the existence of a picture in itself. Therefore, the sense of painting is the sense we give to it.