PAWEŁ JACKOWSKI

He has been sculpting professionally since 1983, continuing the family tradition. He gained sculpting experience while working for many years at Tomasz Olszewski's woodcarving workshop and at the Color Metals Foundry in Warsaw. He was a scholarship recipient of the Polish-Egyptian Mission for Islamic Art Monuments in Egypt.
He has been carving mainly in wood for several

Abstract totemic forms evoke questions about man's relationship with nature, with our mystical animal or plant ancestor. Their form oscillates from definite geometry to gentle organic lines emphasizing colorful planes sometimes finding synthesis as obverse and reverse of the same work. Abstraction shifting into recognizable, familiar and easily identifiable shapes and geometry giving birth to organic form refers to the human condition as an entity torn between culture and nature. It is such a piece of nature shaped by intuition, but also by knowledge and the tools of civilization. Not only those for direct processing, also those whose existence we are not aware of, or forget about.

MAJOR IMPLEMENTATIONS:

1990 - bust of Pablo Casals for the museum named after him in San Juan
1991 - series of sculptures - portraits of Polish Nobel Prize winners at Expo in Seville
1992 - bust of Gen. Józef Dwernicki
1993/94 - work on reconstruction of sculptural elements (stone and wood)
Emir Qurqumas mosque in Cairo
2004 - individual exhibition at the Museum in Lomza (Sculptures and drawings)
2004 and 2009 - individual exhibitions at the Museum in Brodnica
2011 - realization of FOXTROTT on pl. Dabrowskiego 1, patio, in WARSAW - for CELANO
2013 - 19 Artists in the 19th District - with
2014 - 19 Artists in the 19th District 2nd edition - mask drawings
2016 - Confronts, TA3 Gallery "2D3D" masks, sketches
2018 - " Michael Elis " sculpture exhibition, Art Pharmacy.
2018 – «Black on white» Galeria Monumental, Lisbona
2020 - "Lotofags" with Magda Fokt and Alek Slon, Elektor Gallery, Warsaw.
2022 - "OSIEM" SCEK gallery, Warsaw.
2023 - "ANIMA PICTURIAE" with Al Slon, D'Alchemy