AW.S.0010
Orzeł
Eagle
- Year
- 1978
- Material
- Brenna sandstone
- Dimensions
- 150 × 750 cm
- Location
- Polish Embassy, Moscow
The work
The eagle for the entrance hall of the Polish Embassy in Moscow comes out of a national competition Antonina wins in 1975. She is already at work on the relief — seven and a half metres of Brenna sandstone — in the summer of 1977, and in 1978 she sets it in place.
In the account she gives of it years later she recalls the political tensions on the site around that eagle «without a crown»: a Polish public work in the heart of Moscow, in years when even a heraldic sign is delicate matter.
More photographs
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Catalogue «Antonina Wysocka-Jonczak», Volumen 1999 — photographs by Jacek Sowicki, Zygmunt Halka, Janusz Witkowski, Maciej Jonczak, Thea Henkel -
Overall view of the whole relief: the only image that shows all seven and a half metres. -
Two of the four boards: the horizontal rent and the modular field, versions never made. -
Each of the two shots holds two boards: these are the four versions of the relief, and the upper board of this pair is the solution that was made. -
The relief drawn as a band of abutting slabs, with the two-lipped rent at the centre. -
The frieze tried out inside the recess of a wall in horizontal courses, the striped floor converging towards it: the lobby, before it existed. -
Plan and elevation of a linear composition in five elements
From the press and the papers
The clippings, invitations and documents in the archive that speak of this work, already published in the Press section.
