About the artist
The Artist
found herself in charming drawings and graphics which attract
attention not only by magic of the world presented but also by a
unique precision and discipline.
The characters in her works are mostly heroes
and participants of former travelling theatrical troops that
played on town squares and fairs. For, as I said before, her
infusion and source of inspiration are not live nature or people
but fictitious characters, ‘people-creations’, scenic
characters, very often the heroes from Italian commedia
dell’ arte. The Author introduces characters resembling
harlequin, a servant and a buffoon in a black mask, Ruzzante
– a comic peasant, Scaramucci – an adventurer, boaster,
swaggerer and coward. In this world there is also Colombina
– once she grows out directly from a mannequin and sometimes
she flies over a fairy tale town. There is also Pierrot, a clown
and buffoon with a face covered with flour and dressed in his
typical garment. The Artist is fascinated by mythological
characters as well, e.g. Pan playing the ocarina, a horned satyr
surrounded by cringing catwomen.
In these works there is a perceptible poetic pulsation
and not only in its semantics but also in the method accepted,
since a number of elements in the artist's works fulfils a role of
metaphor, that is meanings contained in themselves as well as
meanings which are formed through proximity with other elements
playing in the same scene that considerably broadens the reception
of the work. Due to such use the figures, animals and objects
displayed gain a number of new contexts that deprives them of
biased reception. The number of possible artistic arrangements and
content expressed by them is enormous and offers a receiver the
chance to interpret them at many levels.
Sławomir Iwański
Anna Szyłło creates the
world of fairy tales: beautiful and cruel like… life.
The
world is inhabited by characters saturated with melancholy and
gloom – angels, pierrots, pipers, cats or marionettes. They
come from nowhere, i.e. from the whiteness of a paper sheet or
canvas. Very often they are just embroidered with black thread.
Being suspended in space they are irrefutable evidence of
spiritual and matter coexistence.
Joanna Olczakówna
Her
characters of people, creatures and landscapes are plaited with an
invisible thread of mystery that comes from an apparent
contradiction of moods and is stressed by symbols.
The
compositions consist of many layers with elements fitted by means
of contrast and similarity (…)
In
most of her artworks, although each of them has a unique and
individual artistic expression, there is dominating tendency to
grab the picture of an event, transformation or spiritual and
matter coexistence. Persistence is against death and
disintegration. The eternal cycle of changes makes us search for
the source of the present in distant history of the world, in
which the eternal matter is converted and revives into new,
present form.
Elżbieta Kołdrzak
