Katuszewski, Sylvia

Sylvia’s artistic talent emerged when she was pregnant with her first child. She began drawing, painting and making ceramics, prompted by the history of her Jewish family. Successive periods of mourning, which she is unable to talk about were incentive for her urge to express herself. Her fleeting earthenware creatures of mothers or female saints, surrounded by idolizing children, birds and plants seem commemorative sculptures.

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“Dans son atelier, Sylvia Katuszewski fait surgir de la glaise des madones parées de fleurs, d’oiseaux, d’anges et d’enfants qui émergent des bouches, du ventre et des poitrines de ces déesses mères. Certaines de ces sculptures en argile sont émaillées de couleurs pastel. Elle réalise également des gouaches et des pastels.”

Sylvia Katuszewski
1946 Paris, France -