56x35x25, glazed ceramic,
Marzena Hettich-Uryszek.
Graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. She obtained her diploma, supplemented by an annex on sculpture, in the painting studio of Professor Krzysztof Skarbek.
She lives and works in Poland and Germany. In addition to her artistic activity, she has been teaching art subjects for years.
Her work is parallel: painting and sculpture, mainly ceramic, and she likes to combine both, creating the so-called interdisciplinary art. She is close to the belief that form determines content. While appreciating classical painting, the artist uses other creative techniques. She eagerly reaches for collage. Collage is, on the one hand, an opportunity to use various "by-products" of civilization development (cigar rings), and on the other - the possibility of their recontextualization, which is an expression of the artist's intercultural and intertextual search. The series of works created using this technique can be described as cultural recycling.
"Marzena Hettich-Uryszek presents us with the direction of development of her own personal search. The dominant issues of forms of artistic expression in her compositions seem to be drawing and color. They create interacting instruments together with brilliant effects and rich, changing shapes. They allow the opportunity to present interesting phenomena, bringing out colorful visual impressions. Creatively combining the elements of chance that the conscious construction of painting matter, the creator gives her paintings an evocative and unique power. They also seem to come from the analysis of unusual phenomena, in the ever-changing popular culture, organizing its own mythologies. Prof. Krzysztof Skarbek,,
The center of interest is the human being and his various emotional states. These interests are reflected in the artistic output, firstly - vivid and strong colors. And secondly, the strong presence of portraiture. The latter seems to suggest references to the tradition of figurative painting, but the artist does not shy away from choosing in the direction of abstraction.
In sculpture, her specialties are intimate sculptural forms and reliefs, most often created in ceramics. She also has in her corner realizations in bronze.
The material in which she creates dictates her artistic form. In her creative work she is inspired by man and nature. Sculptures are a pretext for painting, which makes it possible to combine her work with the current of so-called hybrid art.
Recalling the beauty and ideal proportions of classical sculptures, she simultaneously reinterprets and modernizes them. She emphasizes the imperfections of human nature through cracks and intentional damage to the sculpture's surface. As she says, I would like my figures to have a soul in addition to a beautiful body.
In her sculptures, striving for the ideal of classical beauty, though marred by imperfections, one can find one's own weaknesses or difficulties of everyday life.
These blemishes and stains are, to quote the author, actually signs of frailty, a story of human transience and existence. They are our scars, causing us suffering, but at the same time giving us strength, nobility and beauty.
-Unveiling of the monument , "To the victims of the bombing" in Wieluń.
-The unveiling of the memorial plaque - ,,To the Fallen 18-/1920 2009.
-Offering the unveiling of the memorial plaque - for the Middle School named after the Wieluń National Defense Battalions 2010
-Action ,,Graffiti on Giewont'' - idea, coordination and execution together with high school students of graffiti at the railway station in Wieluń. 2011
-Design and execution of ,,1939-1945 Memorial Chamber'' at the Janusz Korczak High School No. 2 in Wieluń 2009 2009 2010 2011 2009
- Design and construction of ,,Chamber of Remembrance" in the 1st High School named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Wieluń 2012
-Making a bronze cast model of Wieluń, standing in the center of the city at Legion Square. 2016
-Making a model of the city of Wieruszow 2018
Selected exhibitions of painting and sculpture:
- , "Plastic Presentations" BWA Sieradz (2012 and 2016).
- , "Triennale with still life" BWA Sieradz.
- , "New Avant-garde" -Katowice (2017).
- , "In the service of art and politics" Paris (2018).
2012 2016 2018
3 - permanent exhibition in Germany Haslach
-participation in the ArtBox art fair in Zurich 2021
-exhibition at BWA Sieradz 2021
-participation in the Art Box art fair in Venice 2022
-exhibition , "Her portrait," Warsaw 2022
