Weronika "Verona"
Szpalerska
Graduate
of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, is actively pursuing painting,
interior design and music.
She seeks her inspiration, both spiritual and aesthetic, in the
broadly understood Japanese art, sacral painting and many kinds of
music. This search is not limited to a passive appreciation of
Japanese woodcuts, orthodox church’s icons, or to listening to
music. As a child she attended a music school, between 2001 and 2007
she sang and toured with the Warsaw Inter-University Choir by the
St. Anna church in Warsaw. She devoted ten years to practicing
far-eastern martial arts (Karate Kyokushin and Kendo), alongside
developing her passion for painting, transporting the ideas of
Japanese masters to canvas or plywood.
The fruit of this search for common ground between the art of the
East and the West, are the portraits of Catholic saints depicted in
a Japanese aesthetic, but also geometric abstract paintings, seeking
the universal harmony between vertical and horizontal, empty and
full, active and passive.
She is currently conducting scientific work concerning the
connection between painting, interior design in the traditional
Japanese craft, at the Tama Art University in Tokyo.
Individual Shows:
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2002 –„Bourjois Big”coffee house, Chicago
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2003 – „CASE” foundation, Warszawa
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2004 – the window display of „Empik Megastore Junior”, Warszawa
Group Shows:
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2005 –
„Konfrontacje”, ZPAP Warszawa
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2006 – „Sztuka na
Woli” (Art of Wola) , Warszawa
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2008 – „Zostań z
nami” (Stay with us) i „Sztuka Projektowania” (The art of
design), ZPAP Warszawa
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