Płatek śniegu
white alabaster, steel height
approx. 65 cm
A unique sculpture of snow-white alabaster mounted on four shafts in a metal base. The rectangular form of the work bears natural traces of the tools used in the quarry when forging the blocks of alabaster from the wall monolith. The artist has exposed the original life of the stone, giving it a very simple abstract form. ‘This is the base that became a sculpture’ – says the artist. ‘I was making an alabaster base for another sculpture. One morning I entered the studio to continue my work and saw that what was supposed to be the base had gained strength and had somehow become a sculpture in its own right. I had no choice but to add a steel base to it.’
About the work
2022 – "Atoms" Exhibition in Fijewski Gallery
About Artist
Monika Osiecka
I deal with art because it is practically the only space where I always felt perfectly in my place, completely happy, fulfilled and strong.
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.