100 x 80 cm,
acrylic, canvas,
signed
2022 r
Żaneta Chłostowska - Szwaczka (b. 1983, Zielona Góra) The dominant theme of her works is women and their condition in the modern world. These themes are not conveyed directly, so they require intellectual effort and interpretive maturity. Often appearing female faces with a certain amount of melancholy, concentration, withdrawal and apparent distancing from the world and even those with undisguised attributes of proficiency provoke reflection, intrigue asking questions about the limits of subordination or .... independence. It is a search for one's own identity by annexing space in social identity. The problems faced by a statistically larger part of our population are mental, which, shaped since the dawn of our species, has left a stigma of social roles and dependencies. Despite many changes and the passage of time, the social role of women for much of society has not been significantly reevaluated.
As for the technical layer, the painter's strongly subdued color scheme, which rarely tolerates a wider color palette and frequent handling of various shades of black and gray, gives her works a very specific, original and nuanced interpretative atmosphere. Very important is also the "absence of background", which strongly emphasizes the relevance of the subject undertaken. Although this treatment was used by many painters, here it is applied in a pure and uncompromising way. Depth, nothingness, spacelessness, ephemerality can bring us closer to understanding through contrast and emphasis or absorb everything irretrievably. Ambiguity, multi-layered and at the same time .... quite spectacular in perception.
She began her artistic education at the State High School of Fine Arts in Zielona Gora, majoring in exhibition studies. After its completion, she continued her education at the Institute of Visual Arts where in 2009 she defended her master's degree in painting at the University of Zielona Gora in the studio of Prof. Jan Gawron. For some time she lived and worked in Liverpool.
The author has presented her works at individual and collective exhibitions, including West Lancashire Annual Open Exhibition" (UK), Tetlow (Germany), Jänschwalde (Germany), Artus Court Torun and many others. She practices painting, mosaic and sculpture.
Regards Żaneta Chłostowska - Szwaczka
