Andrzej Żygadło

Andrzej Żygadło (b. 1988 in Przeworsk) is a painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and art conservator, and also a researcher of wooden folk architecture - with particular emphasis on Orthodox church architecture and the iconography of the monuments of south-eastern Poland. He is a graduate of the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Jarosław and of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, where he completed painting (2014, the studio of Professor Leszek Misiak) and the conservation and restoration of works of art (diploma 2018); he was twice a holder of scholarships from the ministers of culture and of science.

In Żygadło's painting vanitas content recurs - the passing of the human being and of whole communities and cultures, set on the ruins of those before them - and one of the main threads is the motif of the temple and its destruction. The direct source of inspiration is the area of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, from which the artist comes; part of his work is a commentary on specific events and confrontations of national groups in this region. He has exhibited at, among others, Art Agenda Nova in Kraków (the exhibition „Chram”), and his works are in the collections of the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw.