The paintings of Alexandra Urban they are a visceral journey into the world of memories and fantasies, where reality takes on the mysterious aspects of a dream, even a nightmare.
Filled with strange characters and terrifying ghosts, his works cannot be interpreted without ambiguity.
To carry them out, Aleksandra often uses the technique thanks to and frequently refers to the sacred sphere.
Born in 1978, the resident artist in Wroclaw was educated in the Academy of Fine Arts de la ciudad.
Over the past few years, he has drawn attention on the contemporary art scene in Poland and in all Europa, exhibiting in events and places as prestigious as the Edinburgh Arts Festival, BWA Studio in Wroclaw, Art Agenda Nova Bestregards Gallery en Frankfurt and even Brazil.
His approach to painting takes a cartoonish and pop art bent, with recognizable shapes and settings that take on a Gothic and unnatural.
His paintings of girls scattered through the forest, seemingly victims of the cruelty of unseen predators, are no less haunting than his iconoclastic homages to sacred art.
An air of guilt and suspicion pervades all these works as if they were documents of an ongoing investigation, whether from the past or the immediate present.
Urban's vision of painting is certainly postmodern, adopting a similar attitude to that of his fellow contemporaries. Poland, radek szlaga o Magdalena Burdzyńska, by using the technique of painting to undermine his authority by changing the subject from noble portraits and still lifes to a version pop-art of contemporary culture.
It also examines the nature of fear from the perspective of a victim or martyr, both in the physical and spiritual realm as well as the fear of being a witness to a crime, or even acting as an aggressor.
In this way, he intends to explore the human mind and motivation.
En At the Tip of the Tongue, exhibited at the Leto Gallery in Warsaw in the fall of 2012, focuses on the way the mind wanders around a subject, drifting away from the subject at hand and keeping the mind guessing as it goes and weaves through a series of associations that are only just off the mark. below what one is looking for.
She says this is similar to what she feels when working on a painting, explaining, "I'm trying to find meaning, I arrange the elements in the hope that the right solution will come to me."
In summary, her work has its beginning in the reality that surrounds her. In it, the memory registers chosen elements, which are intriguing and stimulating to my imagination and then the artistic conscience transforms them into new images. In this way, his painting could not exist without the journey and the attentive observation of the world.