Anna WYSOCKA (1975), Hibernate II; 2013

Steel, mdf board, acrylic; 200 x 100 x 30 cm
Signed on the back: Anna Wysocka

Anna Wysocka graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, receiving a diploma in painting in the studio of Prof. Lech Wolski and in drawing in the studio of Prof. Krzysztof Cander. She received her postdoctoral degree in fine arts in 2013. She currently works as a professor in the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Krakow. She is a member of the Association of Polish Artists of the Warsaw District. Her works have been presented at about a hundred individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Among the numerous prizes won in national and international competitions, the most valued is the Tymon Niesiolowski medal for the best art diploma in 2000. Her works are in private collections and museum collections in Poland, Germany, Serbia and the United States. She creates paintings, objects, sculptures, bas-reliefs and drawings in her own technique.
I work on the border of art disciplines. The longing for space, which I identify with liberation, and the desire to break the limitations of the plane, shape my creative path, which runs from matter painting, through collages, reliefs and bas-reliefs, assemblages from ready-made elements, objects enclosed in showcases, paintings without backgrounds to sculptures. An inspiring material for me is metal. Its coolness, smell and color have fascinated me for many years. I use sheet metal and steel rods. I heat them up to a temperature at which they become moldable lava. In this way I prepare my own matter. By using welding techniques, I can break the resistance of metal, deepening the area of using its qualities. At the same time, I am fascinated by the extreme conditions under which I realize the object. In my past explorations from abstraction, through inspiration from animals, I have reached the human figure. In my works I ask questions about life, death, suffering and destiny.
Art is an absolute for me, allowing me to transcend boundaries. In it justifies the meaning of my life.
Anna Wysocka