Stone sculpture, dimensions: 20 cm high, 20 cm wide
Boguslaw Zen
Born in Wroclaw in 1963. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw at the Faculty of Sculpture, where he received his diploma in 1997. During his studies he also did a course in historic preservation. Since graduation, he has been professionally engaged in sculpture in stone, wood, bronze, sculpture installation, he also creates small sculptural forms of medals.
Since 2003 he also deals with sculpture in perishable materials, sculpture of short duration, i.e. he sculpts in ice, snow and sand.
One of his favorite arts is drawing. He lives and creates in Wroclaw.
MAJOR SCULPTURAL REALIZATIONS:
-POLONIA sculpture, Wądroże Wielkie
-The Christ monument in Polkowice( 3.3m high stone
sandstone)
-Monument to John Paul II in Milicz (3.4m high bronze)
-Side altar in the Church of the Fathers of St. John of God in Wroclaw
(conservation)
-The main altar in the Seminary in Wroclaw
(stone sandstone)
-The sculpture of a knight on top of the palace in Kwietno, Lower
Silesia and conservation of the historic ceilings in the same
palace
-1996 Medal for Cuprum Bank, second prize in the competition realization
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS:
2020-Jubilee exhibition 4x6x25, 25 years of creative work Arsenal Wroclaw.
2019-Individual exhibition Oborniki Śl.
2018-Sculpture in sand "Marshal Józef Piłsudski" in Legnica
2018- International Ice Sculpture Festival Pakruojos Dwaras ,Lithuania
2018- International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival Harbin, China
2016-Exhibition of ice sculptures ,Berlin,Germany
2016- Individual exhibition of sculpture "Gallery Na Wprost "Ilawa".
2015-XXVII Exhibition of Art of the Copper Belt,Legnica
-2014-International Ice Sculpture Festival and
International Sand Sculpture Festival,Jelgava, Latvia
-2013-International Ice Sculpture Festival , Helsinki, Finland
2012-Exhibition "New National Art" at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
2012-Exhibition International Competition for Smolensk Monument CRP, Orońsko
-from 2008 to 2011-International Festival of Sculpture in Sand, Warnemunde , Germany
-from 2005 to 20010-International Ice Sculpture Festival, Rostock , Germany
-2008-VI Triennale of Polish Contemporary Drawing,Lubaczow
-2007-Sculpture in Eben Emael park/Liege, Belgium
-2005-Collective exhibition,sculpture BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw, Poland
-2004-Group exhibition "Wilde Galerie",Dusseldorf,Germany
-2003- XIV Biennale Internationale Dantesca ,Ravenna,
Italy (bronze medal in the collection of the Dante Museum in Ravenna)
PLENERS
2018- plein-air "beauty of Krakow county", Czajowice near/Ojcowa
2017- plein air "Joyfully about Poland" Myślenice Jasienica 2017
2016- Plein air "Joyfully about Poland" in Myślenice.
2010- Plein air sculpture in Zwickau, Sculpture Schuman and Klara wood sculpture
2004 and 2005- plein-air in Osieki
2003 to 2010- International art workshops in Myslenice
2017- participation in the competition for the Monument to President Lech Kaczynski and the
Monument to the Victims of the Smolensk Tragedy 2010
2020-Participation in the competition for the Battle of Warsaw and the competition for the monument to the
Soldiers Wyklętych in Wroclaw
MAJOR AWARDS:
-2018-Distinction International Snow Sculpture Festival Harbin, China.
-2012-Artists Award Livigno ,Italy, International Snow Sculpture Festival
-2006- Third prize Harbin,China,International Snow Sculpture Fesitval
-2005- 2nd prize Valloire, France, International Snow Sculpture Festival
-2004- 1st and 2nd prize Innichen,San Vigilio , Italy, International Festival
He is constantly creating and all sculptures unique to the hands of private collectors at home and abroad.
