AW.S.0031
Narodziny
Birth
- Year
- 1986
- Material
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 29 × 29 × 26 cm
- Location
- Galeria Canaletto
- Exhibitions
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- «Przemijanie» — Muzeum Regionalne, Siedlce, 2009
- Related works
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- Dziecko oczekujące, 1987 Open the catalogue entry → The year after, the same form that opens and holds a seated child.
- Narodziny (z cyklu Przemijanie), 1988 Open the catalogue entry → The same title two years later, inside the Przemijanie cycle: here birth is a book of bronze.
- U progu życia, 1970 Open the catalogue entry → The forebear of the device: the mahogany at Płock, 1970.
The work
A sphere of bronze opens halfway like a shell: the lid tipped back shows the inner face, gilded and smooth, and on that plane lies a newborn child, minute against the form that contained it. Outside the patina is dark and matt, inside it is bright — the opening is also a passage from darkness into light.
Birth is a subject Antonina returns to more than once through the eighties, and more than once by the same means: the bronze that opens.
More photographs
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The bronze in the Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej at Orońsko, recorded as «Narodziny II», 1985. It is not a second cast: the newborn is remodelled — here the head is raised and turned in profile, the forearm folded beneath the chin. Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej, Orońsko -
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Five discs with figures: «przekaz wiedzy» and «przyjście na świat»
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.
