Sculpture,silver plated patinated bronze (head),base patinated in black and mirror polished on the front,
dimensions: 53x15x26 cm, edition number 5 out of 10, 2022, signed on the back on the turban ABW
Anna Beata Wątróbska-Wdowiarska (born 17 I 1960, Warsaw) - medal sculptor, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1981 to 1987. She completed her specialization in medal making in the studio of Prof. Zofia Demkowska. She completed her diploma in the studio of Prof. Stanislaw Slonina. The diploma work was awarded the Prof. Marian Wnuk medal. Lane and minted medals can be found in foreign and domestic collections, museums and private individuals. His artistic achievements include more than two hundred realizations of beaten medals. He is a member of the International Federation of Medal Makers FIDEM and ZPAP. For 20 years she has been working with the Mint of Poland SA and the National Bank of Poland, for which she has realized a series of coins commemorating the Smolensk tragedy (a gold coin with portraits of Maria and Lech Kaczynski), and is currently realizing a series of coins with portraits of Polish kings according to medals ordered by Stanislaw August Poniatowski. In his work, he does not limit himself to flat relief, but realizes spatial sculptural forms, from small form to monument. Individual exhibitions - Medals and plaques, Museum of Medallic Art, Wroclaw, 1998 - Medallic art, Museum of Kurpie Culture, Ostrołęka, 1999 - Two generations - Stanisława Wątróbska-Frindt, Anna Wątróbska-Wdowiarska, Museum in Brodnica, 1999 - Medallic art, Historical Museum of the City of Warsaw. Warsaw, Warsaw, 2000 - Medallic Art Exhibition, Museum of the Silesian Piasts in Brzeg, Brzeg, 2004 - Medallic Art Exhibition, Beijing - Shanghai, China, 2013 - Between Space and Illusion, Sculpture and Medallion Exhibition, Doha, Qatar, 2014 - Author's exhibition at Prom Culture Club, Warsaw, 2016 Collective exhibitions - 3rd National Medal Exhibition in Torun - Zofia Demkowska's Studio, Warsaw - 2nd Portrait Sculpture Triennial in Sopot - FIDEM, Helsinki, 1990 - FIDEM, Budapest, 1994 Biogram - FIDEM, Neuchatel, 1996 - International Medal Symposium, Kremnica, 1996 - FIDEM, The Hague, 1998 - Tunnel of Time. Warsaw sculpture of the end of the century, ZPAP Warsaw District, 1999 - 1st International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal, 2000 - FIDEM, Weimar, 2000 - Syndrome of the millennium breakthrough, ZPAP Warsaw District, 2000 - 2nd International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal, 2001 - Sacrum-today, Kielce, 2001 - Polish Medallic Art of the 1990s, Museum of Medallic Art, Wroclaw, 2001 - FIDEM, Paris, 2002 - Polish-American Medallic Art Exhibition 2001-2002, Colorado Springs, USA - Wrocław, organized by ANSA and the Museum of Medallic Art, Wrocław, Poland - Exhibition of Polish Medallic Art, Belgium 2002, organized by the Museum of Medallic Art, Wrocław, Poland - 1st International Exhibition of Medallic Art Masaccio 600, Israel, 2002 - 2nd International Exhibition of Medallic Art Anime Spiritus Violin, Israel, 2002 - Polish Medal FIDEM 2002, Museum of Medallic Art, Wrocław, Poland - 30 Years of the Asia-Pacific Museum, Nusantara, 2003-2004 - FIDEM, Seixal, 2004 - VII Autumn Art Salon, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, 2004 - III International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal, 2004 - IV International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal, 2005 - VIII Autumn Art Salon, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, 2006 - Budapest 1956, 2006 - FIDEM, Colorado Springs, 2007 - Znad Dunaju, Vistula and Vistula River - medal exhibition, Wroclaw, Budapest, Kremnica, Uherskie Hradiste, 2007-2008 - 5th International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal, 2008 - Between Light and Shadow, Warsaw District sculpture exhibition, 2009 - 1st Sculpture Exhibition, Novotel Garden Gallery, Warsaw, 2010 - Obsession or Fascination, Warsaw District sculpture exhibition, 2010 - FIDEM, Tampere, Finland, 2010 - Polish and Lithuanian medal making - history and present day, Samogitian Art Museum, Plunge, Lithuania 14 - Sculpture exhibition, Novotel Garden Gallery, Warsaw, 2011 - From the Danube, Vistula and Vistula rivers - medal makers and their works, 10th. edition of the exhibition, 2012 - FIDEM medallion exhibition, Scotland, UK, 2012 - Human Dimension, sculpture exhibition, 2013 - Visual dance, French-Polish painting and sculpture exhibition, Warsaw, 2014 - Genesis, OW ZPAP 2014 sculpture exhibition, FIDEM medallion exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2014 - Art for Syria exhibition and auction, Asia-Pacific Museum, Warsaw, 2015 - FIDEM medallion exhibition, Belgium, 2016. Awards - 2nd place in a closed competition announced by the Department of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts and the head of the City of Lowicz on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of Lowicz (beaten medal), 1986 - Award for artistic level given by the Hungarian Numismatic Institute, FIDEM (cast medal), 1994 - 3rd place in the FIDEM congress medal competition (beaten medal), 1996 - 1st place in a competition announced by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Society in Homage and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts on the occasion of the 100. Anniversary of the discovery of radium (struck medal), 1996 - 2nd place in a competition announced by the Warsaw City Hall for a medal dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the capital city of Warsaw (struck medal), 1996 - 1st place in a competition announced by the Chancellery of the Polish Sejm for a Sejm medal (struck medal), 1996 - 2nd place in the 1st International Competition in Tel Aviv (lana medal), 2002 - honorable mention in the 2nd International Competition in Tel Aviv (lana medal), 2002 - Special Prize awarded by the Bassis School of Sculpture in the 2nd International Competition in Tel Aviv (lana medal), 2002 - First place in the International Coin Competition organized by the Mint of Japan (plaster design), 2003 - Third prize in the competition of the VII Autumn Art Salon in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (Dante Europeo), 2004 - Third place in the International Coin Competition organized by the Mint of Japan (plaster design), 2004 - honorable mention in the competition of the VIII Autumn Art Salon in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (diptych Kropla), 2006 - third prize in the International Coinage Competition organized by the Japanese Mint (plaster project) (together with Magdalena Dobrucka), 2006
