ANNA WARDĘGA-CZAJA

Graduated from the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland in 2021. She’s dealing with easel painting, wall painting as well as drawing. Finalist of Competition for murals projects for 100. anniversary of AGH in Cracow and one of the buildings in Włocławek (Poland).

The paintings of Anna Wardęga-Czaja, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, are mainly depictions of people. An attempt is made here to describe the relationship between the individual and the community. The characters are clustered in crowds; However, they maintain their individual features, unlike in the crowds of Abakanowicz or Szajna, where the collective becomes a synonym of perdition.

In Anna`s paintings, the private sphere merges and penetrates with the common one. This is how the fragments of the urban space become present, too. The artist`s vision derives from the reality, but it is a bit exaggerated. However, in each of the persons shown on the canvases, the postulate of separateness and self-determination is very effectively implemented.
Simply put, it is an expression of identity that breaks out of the rhythm set by the crowd.

The attentiveness with which the young artist looks at people is a value in itself. Each and every one of them becomes the protagonist of the painting. In this sense, the author ennobles the ordinary, creating a collective, human portrait with passion and tenderness.