Mariusz Dydo (b. 1979, Tarnow), "Bull L, Citiza model", 2024.

Biography
Graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Jerzy Nowakowski. In 2007, he opened his first sculpture and painting studio, where he has completed many contract commissions for private individuals, film, advertising, the Wieliczka Salt Mine Tourist Route Museum, the City of Cracow Museum, and the Holy Cross Basilica on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street in Warsaw. He is the author of the sculptural decoration, design and execution of altar furniture for the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the Rosary Road complex in Hlinik nad Hronom, Slovakia. In 2013, together with a second investor, he established the Dydodecor project to promote a brand for intimate sculpture based on the traditions and technologies used in porcelain manufactories. In 2009, together with Zbigniew Blajerski, he was awarded a prize in a closed competition for the restoration of figures for the Altar of the Blessed Sacrament in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw. He worked on the restoration of the upper tier figures, frieze and fine woodcarving in 2009-12. In 2013, he was an honorable mention winner in the Crossroads of Freedom international competition. A year later, he was awarded first prize for the art installation project "Arrange yourselves FREEDOM"-realization. In 2015, he won 1st place ex aequo for the spatial form "Sweet as candy" in the international competition Crossroads of Freedom - implementation. In his work he draws on themes from the world of broadly understood culture, with which he balances between classical and pop cultural styles, treating them problematically, socially or with wit and lightness.