«I am. Therefore what I make is the trace of my presence.»
Three materials run through all her work: the mahogany and oak of the large compositions, the bronze of the small-scale cycles, the granite and sandstone carved at the symposia.
Between 1970 and 1997 she makes more than fifteen monumental sculptures in the open, in parks and at international sculpture symposia. They remain in seven countries, from Poland to Sardinia.
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Atlas · under the open sky Twenty-one works, seven countries: a map to travel Open the sectionThe disc, the ovoid, the prism. Each series is a different way of saying the same thing: presence and its trace.
The disc as a field of tension: Weeping, Javelin, Recollection, Growth, Approach. Some carry a dedication.
Enter the room →Primary forms made to stand in the open: Ab Ovo in Warsaw, Child for a Moment, Shelter, the two Civilisations.
Enter the room →A face enclosed in a prism; opened, it shows the positive and the negative. The artist calls it «a sarcophagus of our life».
Enter the room →Busts that bring inner states to the surface: Subjective I and II, Torn, Merged.
Enter the room →Multi-element compositions in wood: Hiroshima, Exile, On the Threshold of Life, Hands.
Enter the room →Tombs designed on commission for more than twenty years, and the two works of 1982 for Emil Barchański: the bronze and the stone.
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Born in Vilnius in 1942, she graduated with distinction in 1966 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the studio of Marian Wnuk. She worked in stone, wood and bronze, from the medal to the monument; alongside sculpture, she painted and drew.
Her language is anthropocentric and proceeds by metaphor, abbreviation and understatement. She worked between her Warsaw studio and the house at Kotuń, near Siedlce.
The main collection is at the Muzeum Regionalne in Siedlce; other sculptures are at the Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej in Orońsko and in private collections in Europe and the United States. The archive keeps them in circulation.
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