Przemyslaw Lasak, Ceramic Bust
Shamot, personal technique
Work signed,
Dimensions: 157 x 40 cm
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"Przemyslaw Lasak, a contemporary artist, in his extraordinary work becomes an involuntary defender of traditional art and its values, an advocate of its evolutionary, harmonious development. (...) It should be added at this point that in Przemyslaw Lasak's work at the dawn of the 21st century, lies the materialization of what Egon Schiele said at the beginning of the last century, that "art cannot be contemporary, because it is eternal." These beautiful ceramic sculptures are precisely timeless, creating some kind of extraordinary bridge: a harmonious transition between past, present and future.
(...) The extraordinary ability to integrate the three disciplines of art leads the Creator to ennoble his craft. As a painter, I see in Przemyslaw Lasak a strong ally who stands, as I do, on the position that in art the most important thing is not so much what is new, but above all what is one's own." (Jerzy Duda-Gracz)
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Przemyslaw Lasak. Born in 1958 in Opole. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in the studio of Krystyna Cybińska in 1986. For the best diploma he received the rector's award and the award of the Minister of Culture and Art. After graduation, he was employed at his alma mater, since 2002 as a full professor.
Techniques used by Przemyslaw Lasak include ceramics and sculpture, as well as oil painting. The artist is the author of ceramic cycles consisting of life-size sculptures depicting human figures.
Przemyslaw Lasak is the winner of the gold medal at the 47th International Artistic Ceramics Competition in Faenza in 1991. He was also a participant in the international ceramic plein-air Porcelana inaczej in Walbrzych, plein-air painting workshops in Kamion, Szczyrk and Mikolow.
