Maria STRZELCZYK (b. 1993), 30.11.2023 / M. Ptaszynska - Three visions according to Dante / R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, version IV, 2025.

acrylic, canvas, 100 x 70 cm, signed on the back.

This painting is a symphonic concert recorded on canvas on November 30, 2023, played by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice with the active participation of Maria Strzelczyk. The author of the work, who daily sits in the first stand of the NOSPR's second violin group (and from there, each piece sounds slightly different than from the audience's perspective), shows what vision is created by the juxtaposed works of Marta Ptaszynska and Ryszard Strauss - how the music looks in the center - in the middle of the stage and in the middle of the harmony.

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Alter Ego: Mari Drafi.

Born in 1993. Associated with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice since 2017, where she has served as deputy leader of second violin since 2023. She graduated with honors from the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań and from Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Management.

Her second path of artistic expression is painting. Her paintings were auctioned off at an auction to help Ukraine in Wroclaw in 2022 and presented at the High Art Festival in Bytom in 2022 and 2023. In the fall of 2023, the first solo exhibition of her paintings was held at the Pod Glinym Aniołem Gallery in Lubliniec. In 2024, in addition to her participation in group exhibitions, she presented two new series - SETTINGS at the River Art Gallery in Rybnik and STEPbySTEP - collages created using upcycled musical instrument accessories. In spring 2025, both series of works were exhibited at the Opole Philharmonic's Mezzanine Gallery, and in December of that year at Kunstsalon La Divina in Vienna.