Mira ŻELECHOWER-ALEKSIUN, Marching and Pieta

45x69,acrylic on panel, 2018

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (formerly PWSST in Wroclaw) in the Department of
Architectural Painting. Member of ZPAP. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood,
She was inspired by German albums on Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art, the only books with which she had
contact with after the war. In her early youth, her artistic ideal was the work of Rembrandt - the
moved her to the depths, in time she discovered Turner. Currently, she draws inspiration from the Pentateuch and the entire tradition of
Jewish tradition and mindfulness. According to the artist, it is impossible to put her paintings into a specific trend, however
the term used by critic Andrzej Osęka in 1967 - magic realism - suits her. In her
painting, which she primarily deals with, she has always focused on man and the drama of
of his existence. But she is also close to theater, especially that derived from Grotowski's method. Since
from the beginning she has cooperated with the Gardzienice Theater Practices Center and Song of the Goat Theater.
Goat.
She feels most honored in her life by being invited to participate in an exhibition by Marek
Roztworowski's "Poles Own Portrait" in 1979, and a solo exhibition "Through the Holy Land
to the Promised Land" in Jerusalem in 1989 she considers to be the most significant event in her
artistic and spiritual life. He considers his best work to be a series of paintings called Calendar of Remembrance according to
Bruno Schulz first shown at La Mamma Theater in New York for the play Republic
of Dream.