Maria Rostocka

Maria Rostocka is a Polish artist who lives in Warsaw. She spent part of her childhood in France where she discovered reading by reading comics. She continued her studies at the French high school René Goscinny in Warsaw (you can't make this up?!) and then studied painting at the Beaux-arts. She spent several years painting nudes and still lifes on canvas, before realising that the 19th century was well and truly over.
Maria Rostocka's work has always been close to comics: for a long time she made series of paintings, then image suites in gouache before she started to paint short stories in comics, which allowed her to make a place for herself in the small world of Polish comics. In 2013, she co-wrote The Bear, the Cat and the Rabbit with her husband Micha Rostocki, a book published in Poland, and translated in France by Michel Lagarde.
Maria then embarked on the writing of The End of July, which will take her "about 100,000 years to complete". This book, inspired by independent cinema and the novels of Jane Austen, is marked by the atmosphere of a village near Warsaw where the author's grandfather lived. It will soon no longer be the countryside, the city will engulf it. There is old and new, nostalgia for the past, optimism for the future and the strange feeling of living in a world where everything is mixed.
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 L'ours, le chat et le lapin. Extrait. Maria Rostocka, Michał Rostocki. 

 

 

Co-financé par le Fonds de Promotion de la Culture du Ministère de la Culture, du Patrimoine National et du Sport.