Anna PAZDALSKA (b. 1969), Emmanuel and Raja; 2020

Patinated bronze on stone base (Rosso verona)
68 x 22 x 30 cm; height of bronze; Emanuel 61 cm, Raja 60 cm
Signed l. side: APAZ
edition 2/3

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 individual 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. The work of the sculptor is characterized by a constructive distance from the insistence of trends and fashions in art, as well as from the pressure of patterns and schemes coming from the widely understood tradition.
The sculpture Emmanuel and Raja is an interpretation of interpersonal feelings between a man and a woman that are an eternal theme in art taken up in the works of many artists of both word, sound and image. This work, characteristic of Anna Pazdalskaya's work, is full of unforced grace is a frozen in time moment of explored feelings.