Jacek Jagielski, "Provisioning," 2019

Literature
Jagielski presents objects compiled from traditional matter, such as ceramic, stone, metal, wood, with ready-made elements - fragments of furniture, mirrors, bird feathers, carpet, walking stick. His works - constructed on the basis of specific juxtapositions and subtle transformations, contrasts and tensions between materials, using simple rules of physics - give the lie to our senses, allow us to succumb to the illusion that the law of gravity does not exist. They persist in suspension, tension or gently balance. An important part of the artist's objects are the titles of the works. It is they that set the direction of their various interpretations, open up whole strings of metaphorical associations, induce intellectual reflection."

Anna Podsiadla

Biography
Professor of sculpture at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan, studied at the university in 1978-84. He received a diploma in sculpture with honors in the studio of Prof. Jozef Kopczynski and drawing in the studio of Prof. Jaroslaw Kozlowski. In 1985 he was a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art and a resident at the Henry Moore Foundation in the UK. In 2008-11 he was a member of the Program Council at the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko. In 2020, he was awarded the Gold Medal for "Meritorious Service to Culture Gloria Artis." He has presented his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions, at home and abroad. His work is rooted in the narrative sculpture of the decade of the 1980s, figurative, but with a strong Dadaist and Surrealist component.