Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik, Pulse
Waterjet-cut glass, steel frame
Dimensions: 150 x 40 x 40 cm
Work signed. UNIQUE.
Exhibited in National Museum in Wroclaw, among others.
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"I give you my heart in your hands, do what you want with it". Us this fun will probably cost very little. The consequences are not scary. However, I dare say that aesthetics here is only a tool for expressing much deeper content. Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik has already proved more than once that she knows perfectly how to use the visual weapon. In her hands, capricious and demanding glass turns from a wild animal into a gentle lamb, and the beauty attributed to glass matter becomes the language of stories about life and death, predestination and free will, attachment and the desire to escape. The artist, whose works adorn museum and private collections, as well as public interiors - from the stained glass windows in St. Matthias Church in Wroclaw to the glazing in the Copernicus Airport in Wroclaw - this time invites us on a joint journey through the past and present towards the future." ~ Agata Saraczyńska
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Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik - is considered one of the most talented and interesting personalities of Polish artistic glass. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Glass and Ceramics in Wroclaw.
She is engaged in creating unique pieces from glass. She designs and realizes glass in architecture, an example of which are the stained glass windows in the Gothic church of St. Matthias in Wroclaw. Her works are in the National Museums: in Wroclaw and Poznan, as well as in the City Museum in Jelenia Gora, the Polish Museum of Contemporary Glass in Sosnowiec and the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. The artist has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions. At home and abroad.
Krzysztof Kucharczyk wrote the following about the artist's work: "In order to fully understand and learn about Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik's creative path, the viewer must go beyond the glass matter in which she creates, abandon considering her art only within the framework of the material she mainly uses. Her work aims to make the viewer move away from the hermetic gaze, to cross the preiconographic boundary that is undoubtedly marked by the object itself. It is a world freed from the physical density of glass, it is a series of tropes escaping the technological peregrination determined by the plastic properties of the substance. It is an added value, an ephemeral association, an element of an idea, a concept, an assumption. The transmission of content takes place through it and against the background of this material. The material becomes only a catalyst for expression, leaving formal attributes in the background. It is not a matter of pure depreciation of matter, rather, the "weight" of genre is shifted to what is materially absent, to the (u) volatile idea of the author. No matter what technique we are dealing with, the primary and most important feature of Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik's works is their power of expression."
