Mariusz Chrzastek (b. 1965), Story, 2019

Own technique, metal, 50 x 50 x 35, signed: 'CHRZĄSTEK 2019'

Sculptor artist. He has had many solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He publicly presented his works for the first time in 1993. Creator of sculptures and miniatures that overcome the barriers of time, space and imagination. Originator and co-organizer of the first and commissioner of the 15th consecutive open-air workshop of ISD Huta Częstochowa. From 2010 to 2014 Member of the Board of the ZPAP district in Czestochowa. Animator of culture and art. He is the author and executor of such statues as the Eagles Wprost, Przemyslaw Gintrowski Award, Zloty Szczakiel, Zloty Bell, Pearl "QI" and many other prestigious awards. In 2011, he received the Diploma of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for artistic creativity and dissemination of culture. In 2016, he was awarded the badge of "Merit to Polish Culture" and the Silver Badge of Honor for his contribution to the Silesian Voivodeship. His sculptural art is based on a thorough understanding of the properties of metal. The basic idea behind many of his works is the artist's desire to work out organic beauty in the anaesthetic and realistically difficult material of steel and its varieties. Mariusz Chrzastek has turned these material inconveniences into a value of his works.