Anna PAZDALSKA (b. 1969), Helena, 2021

Bronze, granite base; height with base 67 cm, height of bronze 57.5 cm;
Signed l. side: APAZ;

Graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She received her diploma in Prof. Marian Konieczny's studio in 1996. She has had many solo and group exhibitions. She participated in many art fairs, for example, in Barcelona in 2017 and 2018 and in Paris in 2019. She realized the monument to Wincenty Witos in Rakszawa in 1998. A member of ZPAP, she is a member of TPSP Krakow.
According to the artist, in art there are no eternal truths and binding views, in art there are only sacred obsessions and the uncompromising necessity to express them. A distinguishing feature of Anna Pazdalskaya's work is her ability to distance herself both from the insistence of trends and fashions in art and from the pressure of patterns and schemes emanating from the widely understood tradition.
Her series of sculptures about women are, above all, beautiful. The silhouettes of the women resemble birds taking flight, sometimes bringing to mind swirling figures in the summer rain. They are dignified and graceful, moving in moodiness, sometimes sadness and lyricism.