Ida Stańczyk,
Melancholia III, 2021
The series under the common title "Melancholia - anatomy of light" consists of five large-format oil paintings (2x2.5m). The main inspiration for their creation was an attempt at a painterly interpretation of the concept of melancholy.
The series "Melancholy - anatomy of light" is a portrait of a young man, lonely in an atomized world, separated from the hustle and bustle of modern forms of constant communication. The austere rooms, pretending to be a fragment of an apartment by layout, give the last rays of evening light and illuminate slightly fragments of figures.
These paintings are a note from a period of loneliness - they illustrate the fate of a man cut off from the outside world, stuck in place, existing in a preternatural timelessness.
The second main theme of the paintings is light - evening, fading, barely touching the scenery. In the following canvases, dusk comes and slowly falls.
Dimensions: 200x250cm, horizontal format, 5 independent paintings coming from one coherent cycle
Technique: oil painting, cotton canvas stretched on pine frames, currently unframed
Date of creation: 2021
