Aleksandra Waliszewska, DARK ROOM, ca. 2000.

60.0 x 81.0 cm - oil, canvas signed l.d.: WALISZEWSKA



In addition to symbolism, we find traces of medieval illuminations, Quattrocento and Northern Renaissance painting, or Japanese woodcuts, among others, in Waliszewska's works. Although usually described primarily through the prism of iconography, her paintings are therefore also formally diverse. Although her hand is known in each convention, the artist operates with a wide range of means, mixes conventions and ways of building an image, operates with strong contour and blurred stain, realistic detail and illustrative simplification, illusory perspective and conventional plans (Piotr Policht, The essence of monstrosity. "Cruel Tales. Aleksandra Waliszewska and the Symbolism of the East and the North" at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, culture.pl, 15 VI 2022).

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Aleksandra Waliszewska (Warsaw 1976, lives in Warsaw)- visual artist, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma with honors in 2001 in the studio of Prof. Wieslaw Szamborski. In 2003 she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland. She is involved in painting. Aleksandra Waliszewska's early paintings were inspired by the art of the Italian Quattrocento, and the artist clearly emphasized this stylistic quality, painting canvases in the style of Pier della Francesca, Masaccio or Giotto. She was interested in color, mood and the way the 15th-century masters laid down paint. But Waliszewska's works from this period also bring to mind works by Vermeer, Balthus and early Picasso. As the artist explained in statements to the press, her paintings were a mixture of motifs selected from old paintings and her own experiences and observations.

Several years ago, Waliszewska abandoned easel painting in favor of gouaches in A4 sheet format. For more than two years she has been painting at least one picture a day, which has already resulted in a collection of about 2,000 works. The subject matter of her paintings has also changed: Mannerist references to the paintings of the old masters have disappeared, and disturbing, sometimes macabre in atmosphere, visions have appeared, as if taken out of a little girl's nightmare.

She has had more than 20 solo exhibitions, the last of which was held at the Laboratory of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in 2010.