Anna Teresa Rasinka - Poland

Groups :
- 2018 Artists

Anna Rasinska is from Opole, Poland. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art in Kracow, Poland and works primarily with four mediums: stone, metal, bronze, and steel.

She also studied wood carving at the College of Fine Art in Opole, Poland and in 2006 she won the medal for best diploma for her work titled “Metropolis Mass Machine”.

“For me as a young artist, the symposium is the ability to realize my creative ambitions, because I understand that art arises at the moment of contact with the recipient. I live in the space of art and my desire is to continue searching for interesting forms. I think that dialogue with art is of great importance to citizens and to art itself. Sculpture is a small architecture – it has to live in space in order to exert influence on city dwellers.”

“Transformations”

Fredericton – North Fredericton Riverfront Trail

2018 Symposium

Transformations

In my artistic quest, there is a recurring motif (leitmotiv)—the symbol of a circle. The circle is a perfect figure. It closes in on itself. That’s why it is a symbol of God, eternity, perfection and harmony. As a continuous line, it is a symbol of time and infinity. This symbol is readable in many cultures’ associations with the world (universe), both at the macro- and microcosmic levels.

The circular form is also a wheel—a symbol that obliges us to move, to change, to transform. This movement is like a game of form, light and shadow, and it reminds us that there is nothing solid in life. Every thought, word, and deed changes us and offers us more possibility of change. Even the constant element of death in our lives is also a circular element of transformation: death is a new beginning.

– Anna Rasinska