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PETRA DZIERZON

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
www.guzzardi.it/arte/archiviomailart/artistimailart/dzierzon.html

I have had an open mind and I began with art works because of I enjoy to work together with people we know from long time
art calls from different art spaces in BERLIN. I was interested in ago. We want to be a good working community. We make a work
creating a good atmosphere in life. We know it from Yoga, Pilates in a field, where often there are no other structures. We are in

and other sports. I wanted to have fun. I wanted to make money. danger that life style absorbs real life. What is happening? This
My focus was to work out “quality” and “singularity” with easy is my work, observing what happens.
methods. I like the contrast from a crazy drawing on trash or
cardboard and its realization with professional technics. I know

“cheap art”, “fun art” and “street art” from Jim Avignon. I know
installation works from Yukihiro Taguchi. I have seen art-books
and prints from the artist Schoko Casana Rosso. I learned in
Berlin that we are living in a culture of pictures. To be in a culture

of pictures means to understand patterns of life style and to
communicate this process. With my prints on glass in my last
book project I presented biographical elements. I could find
here a certain balance in my feelings. Before I have had a group

exhibition in New York with oil on papers. My actual work wants
to bring an emotional thought into a form. I looked here into my
old boxes from earlier periods. I have chosen portraits what are
characters with their own charming style. In my second book I

show more the results of “well done sessions”. My intention is
to make bigger pictures with a high emotional input. I can take
part in exhibitions in Italy and I have won another, a second
ARTIST prize (WOA). I want to realize a Personal Book. I feel in a good

condition. I don´t want only the shopping or the entertainment
world. I don´t want to finish.

434  PASSENGER, 2013 CRAYON ON CARDBOARD 9.4X13.3 IN. | 24X34 CM.