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biography

Aldona Piotrowska (born 1986)
Graduated from the Post-secondary School of Advertising (Policealne Studium Reklamy), Zielona Góra, Poland, 2007. In 2007 she started her studies at the Faculty of Arts, the University of Zielona Góra. In 2012, as a student of Prof. Stanisław Kortyka, she received her master’s degree in painting. In 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Piotr Szurek, she received her bachelor’s degree in graphic arts. Areas of her interests are drawing, painting, printing, comic art and animation.

Selected exhibitions

• Strange Dream (Dziwny sen – individual exhibition), aj-aj Gallery, the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra, 2016
• Nonobvious. Shots. Part one (Nieoczywiste. Szoty. Część Pierwsza), the Galleries of Contemporary Art in Zielona Góra (BWA Zielona Góra), 2016
• Preserves (Przetwory), aj-aj Gallery, the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra, 2016

Awards

1st Award for the poster: the Polish-German Days (Dni Polsko-Niemieckie), the University of Zielona Góra, 2013
 

self-commentary

My printing series have come into being under the strong influence of comic imagination. The works are also inspired by my dreams considered as a consequence of problems generated by the unpredictable reality. Strange Dream is a series of graphic narratives. Each frame includes one story inspired by comic art. There is a dark dynamics in my artworks, created by the strong chiaroscuro effect. 

In the Strange Dream I am ‘winking’ to narrative graphics of the 18th and 19th centuries – subject of my contemporary reinterpretation. The old series often followed the book stories accurately – providing ready visual interpretations, delighting a reader and often becoming an iconographic source of inspiration. Nowadays we are being flooded with various triggers, which we are trying to tame by our ‘rational mind’. However, we cannot control our subconsciousness that provides us an uncontrolled narration full of ambiguous symbols.