Artwork:
War, Famine and Death, riding in the service of Conquest don’t care for this Mother and Child, neither do generals and politicians.
I have been deeply offended and aggrieved by our belligerent intrusion into the private lives of the Middle East people. Thousands or millions of people... just statistics, I mourn with this mother and her dead baby.
Artist Statement:
I stopped painting and sculpting after my visit to Louvre. What’s the point? I thought, the perfection has been already achieved.
But even Rodin and Michal Angelo, I concluded, could only reflect what they had in the head and heart. They could not see the world the way I see it; no one can reflect my emotions. So, I have found the place for myself anew and I never left the art again.
This attitude placed my work in many Canadian, Polish and US galleries.
I made a long series of bronze humanoid sculptures, painted portraits and fired clay abstracts. In my view, the choice of material is secondary, it is merely in the service of reaching the viewer, projecting to him or her my joy, pain or anger.
My ideas or emotions are the real contents of the piece of art I display, they are unique because I am a unique human being with the unrepeatable point of views I need to share.
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