Margherita Lipinska Poland, b. 1964

Margherita Lipinska was born in 1964 in Poland, in 1989 she graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
In 1991-92 she continued her studies in Rome having obtained a scholarship at the La Sapienza University.
Since 1991 she has lived in Rome where she carries out her artistic activity.

The artist defines her painting as an investigation into  time and a way to relate to the present in the awareness of the belonging of occidental culture to the Greco-Roman roots.
Ancient art and myth create a reassuring ground where the artist can carry out her artistic research in the face of a present full of uncertainties.
Through the use of unusual supports such as velvet, jute, recycled cardboard and bright colors Lipinska creates a contamination that overlaps the classic images. Large formats and soft canvases, sometimes without frames, give a fresh and informal look to the images represented which are often well-known representations of famous sculptures.
In this way the ancient object is desecrated but without destroying its beauty and its perfection, the sculptures portrayed become contemporary and represent none other than ourselves. The use of famous images, already familiar to the viewer, creates a common language facilitating the beginning of dialogue.
In her work she want to give voice to the amazing topicality of ancient history and art. She believes that our contemporaneity would be much poorer if we did not continue to confront ourselves with the classical era.