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Anna Ziaja (born August 1, 1954 in Wrocław) is a Polish contemporary painter and print maker.
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Anna Ziaja (born August 1, 1954 in Wrocław) is a Polish contemporary painter and print maker.
Biography
Ziaja was educated in the faculty of painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and graduated with an honours degree in 1979. Her unique vision of contemporary art comes from her love of Italian art from Trecento toCinquecento
The cultural and artistic events of Italy during the period 1500 to 1599 are collectively referred to as the Cinquecento (, ), from the Italian for the number 500, in turn from , which is Italian for the year 1500. Cinquecento encompasses the s ...
,from Masaccio
Masaccio (, , ; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, ...
to Vittore Carpaccio fused with her Polish heritage and paintings of Zygmunt Waliszewski
Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897–1936) was a Polish painter, a member of the Kapist movement.
Biography
Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg to the Polish family of an engineer. In 1907 his parents moved to Tbilisi where Waliszewski spent h ...
and Eugeniusz Zak
Eugeniusz Zak (15 December 1884 – 15 January 1926), also known as Eugène Zak and Eugene Zak, was a Polish artist.
Life
Eugeniusz Zak was born to Jewish family in Mogilno, Minsk Governorate (nowadays Belarus). As a boy he moved to Warsaw, ...
. Her concepts are an expression of poetry and personal contemplation, from the melancholic to sometimes bitter reflection. Ziaja's paintings present a psychological abstract of human fate; a depiction of multifaceted personalities inexorable linked in everyday complexities, portraying the individualism of the world.
Ziaja lives in Warsaw Poland and Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
Italy.Słownik Malarzy Polskich, Wydawnictwo Arkady, Warsaw, 2001
Exhibitions
Participated in exhibitions of Polish art: * 1983 - "Młoda Polska graphics", Oerdinghausen, Germany * 1985 - "Wystawa Środowiska Warszawskiego", Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland, * 1986 - "4 polish artists in AF Galerie", Wiesbaden, Germany * 1986 - "Polskie Malarstwo Współczesne" AF Galerie Wiesbaden, Germany, * 1987 - "Sztuka jako wolność", BWA Koszalin, Poland, * 1988 - "Nowe Malowanie" Instytut Polski, Praga, Czech Republic * 1988 - "Wystawa Møodej Polskiej Plastyki Arsenał '88", Hala Gwardii, Warsaw, Poland, * 1989 - A hundred colours, Dijkstra Galerie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands * 1989 - "Biało-Czerwone" Hala Gwardii, Warsaw, Poland, * 1990 - "5 Malarzy z Warszawy", Merz Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain * 1990 - "RAJ" Fundacja Sztuki Współczesnej, Monetti gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 1990 - "Pologne '90", Hotel de Ville de Saints, Gille's, Bruxelles, Belgium * 1990 - "Inter Art", Andrzeja Kareński gallery, Poznań, Poland, * 1990 - "Art Fair", Hamburg, Germany * 1990 - "Dziwny Świat", Monetti gallery, Warsaw * 1990/91 - "The Expressive Struggle 28 Contemporary Polish Artists, Museum Academy of Fine Art. New York, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA * 1991 - "paintings Polskie", Polish Museum of America, Chicago, USA * 1992 - "The Expressive Struggle", Andersen Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA * 2002 - Warszawski Przegląd Malarstwa, exhibition accompanying the Jan Cybis award, DAP, Warsaw, Poland, * 2004 - Fidusiewicz i przyjaciele, sport in art, Centrum Olimpijskie, Warsaw, Poland, * 2007 - Sport in art, Fidusiewicz with friends, selected artists, Centrum Olimpijskie, Warsaw, Poland, * 2008 - "Arsenał 20 years later..." winners of the exhibition Arsenał'88, Centrum Olimpijskie, Warsaw, Poland, * 2012 - "3 światy czyli 150 lat polskiej sztuki współczesnej", Zadra gallery, Warsaw, Poland, and individual exhibitions: * 1979 - paintings and graphics, Centro Culturale "L'indiscreto", Roma, Italy, * 1979 - paintings and graphics, Centro Studi "L.A.Muratori", Modena, Italy, * 1980 - paintings and graphics, "Nowy Świat 23" gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 1981 - paintings and graphics, "Nowy Świat" gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 1982 - graphics, Pontremoli, Italy, * 1982 - graphics, Centro Studi "L.A. Muratori", Modena, Italy, * 1982 - graphics, Como, Italy, * 1989 - paintings, "test" gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 1990 - paintings, Brama gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 1990 - paintings, Katarzyna Baumann gallery, Fryburg, Switzerland, * 1991 - paintings, "Mexpol Galerie", Düsseldorf, Germany, * 1992 - paintings, Brama gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 1992 - paintings, BWA, Ciechanów, Poland, * 1993 - paintings, Ostrołęka gallery, Ostrołęka, Poland, * 1993 - paintings, Francisca gallery, Arhus, Denmark, * 1994 - paintings, "Pod Atlantami" gallery, Walbrzych, Poland, * 1995 - paintings, BWA, Jelenia Góra, Poland, * 1995 - paintings, BWA, Zamość, Poland, * 1998 - paintings, Brama gallery, Warsaw, Poland, * 2008 - paintings, "-1" gallery, Centrum Olimpijskie, Warsaw, Poland, * 2008 - paintings, Atrium gallery, Akademia Leona Koźminskiego, Warsaw, Poland, * 2012 - paintings, "Trzy Swiaty - Brodowska, Jampolski, Ziaja", Zadra gallery, Warsaw, Poland.References
Slownik Malarzy Polskich, wydawnictwo Arkady, Warsaw 2001 Wielka Encyklopedia Malarstwa Polskiego, Wydawnictwo Kluszczyński, Kraków 2011Sources
* Teresa Hrankowska, 1994: ''Sztuka a erotyka Materiały Sesji Stowarzyszenia Historyków Sztuki'', Ośrodek Wydawniczy Arx Regia, Warsaw. * Jarosław M. Daszkiewicz, 1995: ''Malarstwo Młodych'', Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warsaw. * 2001: ''Słownik Malarzy Polskich Od dwudziestolecia międzywojennego do końca XX wieku'', Wydawnictwo Arkady, Warsaw. * Kama Zboralska, 2004: ''Sztuka inwestowania w SZTUKĘ'', Wydawnictwo Rosner & Wspólnicy, Warsaw. * 2011: ''Wielka Encyklopedia Malarstwa Polskiego'', Wydawnictwo Kluszczyński, Kraków. * Polski Komitet Olimpijski, 2016: ''Galeria (-1) Wystawy Sztuki Współczesnej Polski Komitet Olimpijski 2006-2016'', Polski Komitet Olimpijski, WarsawExternal links
official artist website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ziaja, Anna 20th-century Polish painters 21st-century Polish painters Polish women painters Living people 1954 births Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni 20th-century Polish women