Anna Osadnik OSA, I will not be a piggy bank
Chamotte with porcelain - glazed
Height: 58 cm
Work signed, UNIQUE
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I won't be a piggy bank with a black eye. Unique ceramic sculpture, high-melting sculptural mass chamotte with porcelain for hand molding, engobed, glazed. Height: 58 cm. The head was created in the company of many other "moneyboxes". Among other things, the piggy bank relies on a useful opening. In the case of ceramics, it is an opening that allows gases to escape from the interior during the firing process. As the holes tend to be frivolous, and the head I was sticking was heading in the "very serious" direction, I decided to make this necessary hole as impractical as possible and thus, by bending it downward, make it impossible to use. However, for spite, in the back of the head I added another and much larger hole - helpful in transporting the heavy, because this time quite thickly sticky mold.
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ANNA SETTLER OSA. Tarnogórzanka, born 08.01.1971. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts (formerly the State Higher School of Fine Arts) in Wroclaw at the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture. She received her diploma with honors in the field of graphic arts and painting in 1995. Since 2015 she is a member of the Polish Ceramics Association. In 2016, under the artistic supervision of Prof. Dr. Andrzej Szarek, she began doctoral studies in sculpture at the Art Institute of the Silesian University in Cieszyn. Since 1998, she has been teaching drawing, painting and artistic printmaking. She deals with ceramics fired by natural methods ("Gangos", "Stones", "Traces"), makes ephemeral prints (e.g. "Linocut Sketches") and permanent prints ("Glinorites", prints printed in clay and fixed at 1300°C). He also creates large-format body-printed graphics ("DUPODRUKS," "Treatise on Printing"). She addresses issues related to ecology, such as the recycle/cycle "LofP" ("Line of Prospects - Line of Horizons"), continued since 1997, and the series "Golden Trees" since 2016, and in 2018, as a result of a social action to clean the world, she realized a spatial installation of 6,000 non-returnable glass bottles ("Focused Sphere 19,003/350+"). Since 1998, she has been preparing her original series of pickles "The Golden Collection". She also deals with issues of reintegration through creativity (e.g., as part of the LCC/Lubsza Culture Center project, in 2015-2018 she initiated four editions of the "Ceramic Night in Lubsza" festival) and the organization of interactive happenings ("Dancing in Clay," "Gathering Hands"). The heroine of several columns by Krzysztof Mazik "Cookbook - 100 inedible dishes". Immortalized in the calendar by Marek Wesolowski and Krzysztof Miller "Creators of Silesian Culture / 2014". In 1995-2019 she prepared 51 author's exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She participated in more than 200 international actions, plein-air events, symposiums, workshops, exhibitions and events, including music, theater and fashion shows. Her works can be found in museums and galleries and private collections in many countries (Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Czech Republic, Italy, Canada, France, Sweden, England, San Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine).
