In the interview the artist emphasized that to her it is extremely important to portray in her art the aura of mystery and understatement. Therefore, she is mesmerized by silent and impenetrable lives of fish and snakes. For the same reason she is fascinated by the shape of pyramid. She does not accepted in her art what is straight and obvious, mechanical or logical. Painting is an element like the ocean, which she loves to observe. The Painting of Maria Sochaniewicz is constantly saturated with Pan-biologism an sensuality.

Kinga Kawalerowicz
Nowy Dziennik Polish Publishing, (excerpt), 1990

 

A Harz pyrite...

   "A Harz pyrite - says Cordano - shows various figures as ostrich, salamander, cock, abraded priest, and also Holy Mary cradling Her Son in Her Arms". In her paintings Maria depicts objects of finished defined form, fish, pyramids, butterflies, snakes etc. With complete certainty, we cannot deceits in them any escapism from portraying things.

   However, her paintings apparently originated in the course of denying any form to visible things. A formless spontaneity, gained by intensive effort, fascinates by its strength, shows us shapeless things pressing their objective evidence upon a spectator.

   I think that this distinguished achievement also conveys a meaning of the contemporary understanding of modern art."

Janusz Petrykowski
June, 1987

 

ERSKINE CALDWELL AND HIS WIFE ARE VISITING MY STUDIO, WARSAW, 1980