Park stones
Primary forms in the open · 1975–2010
A family of primary forms — the egg, the sphere, the drop, the block — conceived for the landscape and carved almost always on site, at the sculpture symposia: you arrive, you work a block for weeks with everyone watching, and the work stays where it was born.
It is the most travelled of the series: it begins on the Warsaw escarpment in 1975 and crosses half of Europe — the Slovenia of Forma Viva, Germany, Carinthia, Sardinia, the Apennines — to return to Warsaw thirty-five years later. Almost all of stone, with one great sphere of oak.
The stones
Nine works photographed in their places. Each label says where they were born — and where, almost always, they still stand.
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Enter the room → AW.S.0062 Ab Ovo
Warsaw, Skarpa (Trasa Łazienkowska) · 1975limestone · h 270 cm
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Enter the room → AW.S.0034 Sfera
Sphere Forma Viva, Kostanjevica na Krki (Slovenia) · 1976oak · h 300 cm
Carved at the Forma Viva symposium; the inner sphere shows through the opening.
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Open the catalogue entry → AW.S.0054 Zbliżenie
Approach Berlin, Treptower Park · 1976sandstone · h 110 cm
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Enter the room → AW.S.0037 Cywilizacja I
Civilisation I Hoyerswerda, Jürgen-von-Woyski-Park (Germany) · 1977sandstone · h 200 cm
In the window of the block, a human figure gathered upon itself.
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Open the catalogue entry → AW.S.0038 Cywilizacja II
Civilisation II Rostock (Germany) · 1978sandstone · h 200 cm
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Enter the room → AW.S.0068 SoS-Natura
S.O.S. Nature Millstatt, park (Austria) · 1992Krastal marble, smoky quartz, Gummern marble · 255 × 138 × 40 cm
The marble slab is the pond; a duck dives into it tail-up, as into real water.
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Open the catalogue entry → AW.S.0042 Łza szczęścia
Tear of happiness Buddusò (Sardinia) · 1995granite · h 260 cm
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Open the catalogue entry → AW.S.0039 Intymny koncert
Intimate concert Fanano (Modena, Italy) · 1997sandstone · h 240 cm
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Enter the room → AW.S.0044 Etiuda
Étude Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie · 2010sandstone · h 240 cm
The last stop of the series, back in Warsaw.
The route
The stops of the symposia, 1975–2010The sculpture symposium is a precise format: a place, a block, a few weeks of work in the open, and at the end the works remain — in the park, on the escarpment, before the sea. Antonina practises it for thirty-five years, and the archive also keeps the photographs of her at work on the German blocks, mallet in hand.
The route also touches Zamość, where in 1978 a limestone Child for a Moment is set up, and a square in the Praga district of Warsaw, where in 1980 Schronienie, the Shelter, arrives; at Nieporęt, in 1982, the travertine of Zmaganie.
- Warszawa Poland · 1975
- Kostanjevica Slovenia · 1976
- Berlin Germany · 1976
- Hoyerswerda Germany · 1977
- Rostock Germany · 1978
- Zamość Poland · 1978
- Warszawa-Praga Poland · 1980
- Nieporęt Poland · 1982
- Millstatt Austria · 1992
- Buddusò Italy · 1995
- Fanano Italy · 1997
- Warszawa Poland · 2010
The photographs come from the family archive and from the Volumen 1999 catalogue (photos Sowicki, Halka, Witkowski, Jonczak, Henkel).
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