Cristina Madeyski

About artist

Cristina Madeyski was born in Trieste and lives and works in Treviso. A graduate in Mathematics, she has always been passionate about photography, but it is since the late 1980s that she has dedicated herself to it with constancy and passion. She began by focusing mainly on macrophotography, then evolved to digital and experimented with other subjects, also stimulated by the themes proposed for exhibitions and photography competitions in Italy and abroad. For Cristina Madeyski, pictorial matter acts as filler and allows her to channel her evolutionary research into compelling experimentation, characterized by the dynamic flow of movement. Her works are an interplay between space and matter, presence and absence, alternating suggestive figural overlays in narrative construction. The compositions create a harmonious balance, approaching and combining elements in a choreographic mosaic that springs from a desire for absolute elaborative perfection. Madeyski's stylistic imprint is philosophical and surrealist, with a strong intent to externalize subliminal messages, which the sensitive observer must be able to grasp and internalize. He prefers reflections on different surfaces, exploiting the properties of physical optics to create surprising effects. He is able to seize the moment, the “carpe diem,” making the right moment tangible and almost magical, transforming reality into new ideal realities that reveal themselves to our eyes.

Critics have observed of her, “...it is the existentialist engine that captures her attention, as well as the careful study and meticulous analysis of the human psyche and soul in its most hidden facets. In Cristina Madeyski one can trace a passionate love for the gesturality typical of Francis Bacon, with a poetic and sentimental lyricism, as well as an interest in German Expressionism, with its emphasis on the emotionality of art and the search for personal satisfaction through psychological and inner expression, which serve as a driving force for her creativity.”
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions. In Italy, we mention his exhibition in Palermo, curated by Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi, and in Verona, also curated by the same, on the occasion of the “1st Biennial of Creativity.” He also exhibited in Pistoia, Treviso and Longarone (BL) in 2008. Abroad, he exhibited in Kiev (Ukraine) in 2012, Malta, and New York at the “Onishi Project Gallery” in 2014. 1999 marked his debut with his first solo exhibition in Ferrara, followed by exhibitions in Venice (2015, Palazzo Zenobio) and Stockholm in the same year, as well as Villach, Austria in 2002. He has participated in numerous international events in Moscow, London, Australia (in a five-city traveling exhibition at art universities) and Paris, with an exhibition hall at the Louvre Museum.

Cristina Madeyski has been awarded and praised in numerous competitions. In 2009, in Sarasota, Florida, she won 1st and 3rd prizes in the international photography competition on the theme “One's Own City,” submitting three shots, and participated in an exhibition with a series of 30 photographs entitled **"From Canova to Palladio: Veneto art revisited “**, which included five images of the city of Asolo, 11 of Palladian villas taken at particular times of day, processed pictorially or with multiple reflections on mirrors, and nine photographic works dedicated to Canova, embedded in photos of flowers or drops and reworked on the computer in pictorial form. Due to her artistic success, the city of Sarasota awarded her honorary citizenship.