The cobalt, the cerulean sky, the yellowish green hill ridges, the opposition of ochre and emerald. The landscape of Tuscany. This land has always fascinated painters from the North. Another proof of this fascination can be found in the paintings of the Italian series by Iwona Fischer Zuziak. Carefully selected, as if preset framed images form a distant reminiscence of the scenery accompanying the Renaissance images of Venus. We take a view of the still landscape from     a distant point of view - from a window, a hill or a plane - we perceive it as an object, and simultaneously we have this strange impression resembling the one from our dreams, when we suddenly find ourselves in an unknown area. It is an impression of unreality. This unreality is intended, and the artist aims at chasing it and discovering it through her paintings. She refers the visible world to a different order which we can only sense. Signs directing us to this different order may take the shape of an authentic. Triangle of a felled forest, or a similarly real geometry of a road crossing the hills, or a lonely tree. The paintings by Iwona Fischer Zuziak, just as a secret diary, enclose the memory of places and events in the form of an image. However, under this seemingly calm, lyrical narration, we may find the artist's fortitude,   as well as a personal confession.

                                                                                                                                                 Jerzy Kałucki