Dimensions: 55 x 37 x 29 cm
reduction of the sculpture is in the deposit of the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko
work made with the lost wax method
Origin
private collection, Poland
Literature
Adolf Ryszka, "Sculpture," edited by B. Mansfeld, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko 2007, p. 83.
Adolf Ryszka, "Sculpture," Studio Gallery, Warsaw 2006, p. 40.
Biography
The artist was born on February 5, 1935 in Popielów (today a district of Rybnik) to a family of miners. He made his first artistic attempts in elementary school, and perfected against the wishes of his family at the Zakopane High School of Visual Arts in 1953-1957 under the direction of Antoni Kenar. In 1957, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in 1962 with a diploma in the studio of Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. Ryszka created monumental artworks, outdoor sculptures, medals and plaques. He created stone and plaster sculpture, medals, printmaking with abstract and surreal forms. His artistic search, combined with his travels, led him to choose the human figure as the axis of his work and his vision of the world. The search for the ideal was aided by a perfect workshop, handling techniques - as the artist himself used to say - intimate: drawing, medallions, but also the choice of material and finding the relationship between the subject, technique, material (stone, metal, ceramics) and man, nature. We can find all these elements in narrative-filled intimate or outdoor forms. In them, the artist created visions of a continum of temporal and spatial world, place and person, combining past, present and future into one.
