alabaster, steel
height approx. 40 cm
The work is the result of imposing the concept of the sculptor’s artistic vision on a stone extracted from a quarry, which had already had its history before it went to the artist’s studio – visible in the traces of interference of a hand or mechanical tools in its surface.
Osiecka leaves these traces, she has no wish to deprive the lump of alabaster of the truth about itself.
2022 – "Atoms" Exhibition in Fijewski Gallery
Monika Osiecka
Author of the famous book Fragmenty Lustra (a poetic and intimate record of creative self-awareness and women's experiences, published in 2011 by the SO/T Publishing House); Scholar of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. On a daily basis, he works in his studios in Warsaw and Pomarance in Tuscany. She graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Grzegorz Kowalski's studio - diploma in 1994). She studied Persian and Italian philology at the University of Warsaw and sculpture in Italy and Iran. Her adventure with sculpture began with her fascination with the culture of Italy and Iran, where she spent her youth. Osiecka creates abstract and figurative sculptures. She works mainly in stone, especially marble, which is her first material. She has participated in many international stone sculpture symposiums.