Artists of the Gallery Art: Monika Zawadzka

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• Monika Zawadzka

  Born in 1977 in Warsaw. Studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Graduated in 2002 under tutorage of Prof Lech Majewski. Since September 2003 she has been a part of the art project ‘ZOO’, which is an independent non-profit gallery.

• A classic poster regains its impact – Zawadzka’s style of design has already become recognizable. She believes that a design should be clean and ‘invisible’. The colour: black, at best, occasionally red and a pale purple of a blueprint. The form is reduced to the necessary minimum. A human being in Monika Zawadzka’s art is reduced to a simple sign, an ‘anonymous person’ – a dark colour stain stripped of any individual features. Concise and brief means intensify the strength of the interaction of a design especially that the artist chooses the most personal subjects, deeply penetrating the intimacy – she shows physical pain, surgical scars, lovers during an intercourse. Thanks to generic, standard forms she demonstrates that what she portrays regards us too.