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V Auction – GRABOWSCY

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06 October 2022

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At the 5th Auction, works by artists from the Grabowski family were presented.

Antoni Grabowski was born in 1937. In 1965, he graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. That same year, he became a member of the Association of Polish Visual Artists. From 1965 to 2004, he taught sculpture at the Antoni Kenar State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. From 1982 to 1991, he served as deputy director. He received numerous awards for outstanding artistic, teaching and educational achievements. He creates by observing and interpreting nature, transforming it into the language of sculpture. By “the language of sculpture,” he means a new formal reality. The main subject of his works is a woman with statuesque proportions, often provocative and dominant over men.

Antoni Grabowski was born in Zakopane in 1967. He studied at the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1986 to 1991. In 1994–1995, he received a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. He has worked there since 1992, and since 2003 has headed the Sculpture and Drawing Studio in the Interior Architecture Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he is currently a university professor. In 1992, he won first prize in the Polish Young Artists Competition for a work of visual art, organized by the Representation of the European Economic Community in Poland at the Appendix Gallery. He is the creator of the cast-iron books “The Decalogue” and “The Seven Deadly Sins.” Since 1999, he has been creating a collection of “Body Casts” of friends, which he presented in the exhibition “War Within Man” as “Purgatorium” (Purgatory). He is the creator of the installation “SALIGIA,” consisting of seven four-metre-high columns resembling roly-poly dolls. He has completed several projects in public spaces, including Planets of the Solar System beneath the Copernicus Monument on Krakowskie Przedmieście. In 2014, he made a two-metre medallion in cast iron and bronze dedicated to the “Odyssey of the 2nd Corps,” installed at Monte Cassino in Italy on the 70th anniversary of the battle. He took part in the 18th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2018. In 2019, he participated in the exhibition “From Lopez to Dhaka: Unity in Diversity, An Exchange Project” at the NCCA Gallery in the Republic of the Philippines. During the Second Sculpture Symposium at CRPO, he made a 6.5-metre carbon-fibre column entitled “Balance.” Also representing the youngest generation is Jan Grabowski, born in 1994. He is an artist working across a range of styles, media and genres. He writes screenplays and directs and produces independent short films, both fiction and documentary. His debut short crime drama, “Initiation” (2013), gained recognition in Poland’s independent film community, winning, among other awards, the Grand Prix at the 13th Rybnickie Prezentacje Filmu Niezależnego “RePeFeNe” (Rybnik Independent Film Showcase). From 2016 to 2018, he worked with AMONDO Films as a screenwriter and film curator at the AMONDO cinema. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw and film directing at the Warsaw Film School. In 2016, he graduated from the Academy of Photography, and in 2017 received an artistic grant from the City of Warsaw to develop an original photography project. In 2020, he held a residency at the Warsaw contemporary art gallery “Propaganda,” developing a documentary project using VR technology. In 2021, his short 3D animation “T.W.O.C. 2121” was included in the NFT collection “Techno Utopias.” In 2021, he took part in an ERASMUS+ student exchange at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). In 2022, he will complete his bachelor’s degree in Film Production Organization at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź.