Iwona Fischer-Zuziak is one of very few artists who always take their art with them, so to speak. Art, as we know, is governed by strict principles. On the one hand, it makes an artist free as a bird, but, on the other, it's got its limitations. Life and art walk in mysterious ways, but...
  The tender creator of a grand yet subtle Italian triptych entitled Gaeta is the same person, who once painted streaks of light looking like some perverse concoctions of ruby grapefruit juice and milk... Such was Iwona's sophisticated vision of light cast upon the world that does not exist anymore, namely, Kraków gorgeous district of Kazimierz. She saw its landscape through hues of blue ranging from almost pitch black through violet to the clearest shades of indigo. In the artist's eyes Kazimierz was a labyrinthine landscape of arcades and never-ending staircases...
  Iwona Fischer-Zuziak painted Kazimierz ten years ago. She did it with passion and style, however, she soon gave it up to turn to other subjects. Like she always does. An art collector enchanted by the reproductions of those pictures would not think twice of buying any continuation or even a repetition of that series, but Iwona refuses to revamp her erstwhile emotions. For her feelings are different now and different is the manner in which she wants to capture them on canvas. She has been fascinated by Italian landscapes for six years now. She's been into the images of Umbria and Tuscany. Overwhelmed by the beauty of an antique town Gaeta on the Tyrrhenian Sea she painted it on the wall of her flat. Strikingly, the wall seems to breathe the sea air...
  The artist creates space; she can move seas from one place to another. Now that's what I call freedom...
  Enough said, the forms in Iwona Fischer-Zuziak's paintings are always structured on her actual frame of mind. A true artist and an adventurer, she would most certainly find it inadequate or perhaps even immoral to re-live what, in fact, could never be re-lived...
  A resident of Kraków, Iwona has also created visions of its good old churches and cloisters. In her paintings this ancient architecture - as if touched by the hand of the Almighty - seems to be growing out of the rocks, plant-like.
  Fascinated by the world of stage, in her studio the artist created a series of multi-portraits of Kraków Old Theatre's well-known actors. Art within art - Kraków , its rooftops and celebrities... Iwona's breath-taking visions of the once-so-famous mystery of poet Jurek Sitarz's Blue Suitcase...
  In Berlin, around the time after the Wall came down, her rather untypically warm-coloured visions of the city's underground were conceived. These lively paintings were a result of the artist's effort to put up with her irritation with the roar. Interestingly, she did some of them using only old planks found in a basement, and four or five tubes of paint.
  Like John Lennon, whose Turin shroud-like portrait she painted on the night after his death, Iwona Fischer-Zuziak takes her art wherever she goes.

                                                                                                                                                               Marek Sołtysik