Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik, Shamanka
Steel and glass
Artwork signed,
Size: 160 x 38
UNIQUE
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Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik - is considered one of the most talented and interesting personalities in Polish art glass. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Glass and Ceramics in Wroclaw.
She is engaged in creating unique pieces from glass. She designs and realizes glass in architecture, an example of which are the stained glass windows in the Gothic church of St. Matthias in Wroclaw. Her works are in the National Museums: in Wroclaw and Poznan, as well as in the City Museum in Jelenia Gora, the Polish Museum of Contemporary Glass in Sosnowiec and the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. The artist has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions. At home and abroad.
Krzysztof Kucharczyk wrote about the artist's work as follows: "In order to fully understand and learn about Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik's creative path, the viewer must go beyond the glass matter in which she creates, abandon considering her art only within the framework of the material she mainly uses. Her work aims to make the viewer move away from the hermetic gaze, to cross the preiconographic boundary that is undoubtedly marked by the object itself. It is a world freed from the physical density of glass, it is a series of tropes escaping the technological peregrinations determined by the plastic properties of the substance. It is an added value, an ephemeral association, an element of an idea, a concept, an assumption. The transmission of content takes place through it and against the background of this material. The material becomes only a catalyst for expression, leaving formal attributes in the background. This is not a matter of pure depreciation of matter, rather it is a matter of shifting the "weight" of genre to what is materially absent, to the (u) volatile idea of the author. No matter what technique we are dealing with, the primary and most important feature of Beata Stankiewicz-Szczerbik's works is their power of expression."
