{"id":13057,"date":"2024-07-17T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=13057"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:59:58","slug":"maria-filek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/maria-filek","title":{"rendered":"Maria Filek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two Moons<\/em>
8.7″x7″; handmade collage; 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maria Filek
Wadowice, Poland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating collages can be compared to a laborious journey through the world of fantasies, associations, or through a specific theater of events. In order to create a collage, you need to collect interesting and peculiar materials that, when combined, create a new image and convey an idea, providing a unique form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Filek was born in Wadowice, Poland in 1954. She is a longtime art teacher and a graduate of the Art Institute of the University of Silesia in Cieszyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1995, she has participated in group exhibitions mounted by the Wadowice Artistic Community. She was a juror for and showed work in the international “ex libris” competitions in Gliwice, Poland in 2005, Malbork, Poland in 2007, \u0160iauliai, Lithuania in 2008, and Burgstadt, in Germany 2014, which she considers a special achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, she showed her collage during Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival in Ireland as part of the “Migration\u201d exhibition. Her last solo exhibition took place in Wadowice Art Centre in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, she is interested in creating collages that she composes using newspaper clippings and, uniquely, handmade graphic materials.\u00a0 She feels good working in small graphic forms. Her favorite technique is etching. For several years, she has also been interested in ceramics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kryj si\u0119!<\/em> (Hide!)
10.6″x8.3″; handmade collage; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Emigrants<\/em>
8″x10″; handmade collage; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chess Player<\/em>
6.3″x6.3″; handmade collage; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Diptych<\/em>
6″x11.8″; handmade collage; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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