Photograph: Catalogue «Antonina Wysocka-Jonczak», Volumen 1999 — photographs by Jacek Sowicki, Zygmunt Halka, Janusz Witkowski, Maciej Jonczak, Thea Henkel
Cywilizacja I
Civilisation I
- Year
- 1977
- Material
- sandstone
- Dimensions
- h 200 cm
- Location
- Hoyerswerda, Jürgen-von-Woyski-Park (Germany)
- Related works
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- Szkic, Hoyerswerda, 1977 Open the catalogue entry → One of the sheets drawn on the spot in that same summer of 1977.
- Pejzaż, 1977 Open the catalogue entry → The second sheet of that summer: the conifer wood behind the worksite.
- Cywilizacja II, 1978 Open the catalogue entry → The second Civilisation, the year after: Rostock, sandstone again.
- Zbliżenie, 1976 Open the catalogue entry → The first of the German worksites, the year before, in the same sandstone.
The work
The first Civilisation is made in the summer of 1977 at the symposium of Hoyerswerda, in East Germany: a figure surfacing from the sandstone. The local press follows the work day by day — «Sie bilden das “Lied vom Glück”», writes the Lausitzer Rundschau that August.
In Germany the work is called simply «Leben», life, and it stands in the old town park that today bears the name of Jürgen von Woyski, the sculptor who directed the symposium: there all eight sculptures of that summer were gathered.
More photographs
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.
