Sculpture patinated bronze, dimensions H 28 cm, year 2022, signed on the underside with the letter M and edition No. I on VIII.
The sculpture was created as a first, impressionistic sketch for a large, 210 cm tall sculpture Ballet, depicting a dancer in this particular pose.
Monika Osiecka - a Milan-born Polish sculptor, author of the book Fragments of a Mirror - published in 2011 by Słowo/obraz terytoria, scholarship holder at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Graduate of Grzegorz Kowalski's Sculpture Studio (diploma in 1994) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Prior to that, she studied Persian and Italian philology at Warsaw University, and in later years she also studied sculpture in Italy and France. She came to sculpture through her fascination with the culture of Italy and Iran, where she spent her childhood and early youth (she lived in Milan and Tehran until the age of fourteen). She creates abstract and figurative sculpture. Her material of choice is stone, in which she works at international sculpture internships and symposiums throughout Europe.
In 2014, the artist won the Office Départemental de la Culture de l'Orne competition for a monumental sculpture commemorating the 70th anniversary of the battle of General S. Maczek's 1st Armored Division at Falaise, for Mont-Ormel, the so-called "Mace," and which is also the final stage of Otto Freundlich's project "La Voie Européenne de la Paix."
In 2021, she was invited by the mayor of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising Heroes Memorial Foundation to create a monument to the Women of the Warsaw Uprising, the official unveiling of which took place on October 2 at Krasinski Square in Warsaw.
