Aleksandra Waliszewska, WITHOUT TITLE, ca. 2000.

14.0 x 18.0cm - oil, canvas A recurring theme of Waliszewska's figurative painting, writes Ewa Gorządek, are also self-portraits, nudes and portraits of young girls strolling through meadows, on the seashore, in empty city squares, etc. The artist admitted in an interview that she finds working with a live model stressful, so she prefers to paint herself (e.g., Narcissus, 2005). For Waliszewska, self-portraits are a constant pretext for her painting work on the human figure. She often depicts her deformed and aged body in them, bringing out different expressive qualities.

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Aleksandra Waliszewska (Warsaw 1976, lives in Warsaw)- visual artist. She 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.