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Mariusz Dydo, Superman III

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Mariusz Dydo, Superman III
Ceramics painted in underglaze, glazed, painted in glaze.
On the neck, logo and numerical description: 3/8/2015
Dimensions: 95 x 42 x 24 cm
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Mariusz Dydo was born in 1979. In 2004 he defended his diploma at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow - in the studio of Professor Jerzy Nowakowski. In 1997-2003 he cooperated with Jacek Kucaba's Artistic Group "Ruchome Święto". It was with this group that he made his debut in 1998 with large-format paintings.

In 2007 Mariusz Dydo opened a private studio for painting and sculpture. He has to his credit numerous realizations of woodcarving and sculptural decorations for sacred interiors (including the Holy Cross Basilica in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw and the Holy Cross Chapel in Hlinik nad Hronom in Slovakia), artistic projects commissioned by the Wieliczka Salt Mine Tourist Route Museum, the City of Cracow Museum, the Katyn Victims Memorial Foundation and sepulchral realizations in Cracow and Warsaw.

In 2006, the sculptor was the recipient of the Creative Scholarship of the City of Cracow. He was also awarded the first prize of the Tarnów Biennale of All Arts (2005) and the "Artefakt" Award at the International Lodz Fair (2005). In 2013 and 2015 he was the recipient of an honorable mention in the international competition "Crossroads of Freedom", and in 2015 he won its first prize.

Mariusz Dydo's works can be found in the public spaces of the Wieliczka Salt Mine Museum, Ronald Reagan Park in Gdansk or the Historical Museum of Krakow, the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, as well as in collections and private collections in Poland, Israel, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

In his work, he analyzes selected moments - objects - from the history of art and subjects them to formal treatment using ideograms and iconography drawn from popular culture. He often reaches for animalistic motifs and encloses them in cycles that are a defined language of sculptural form. For him, the main carrier of content beyond the sculptural form is color and graphics that build meanings, of which there can be many for one object. Mariusz Dydo's work is a fever of colors and a denial of a single point of reference for the definition of form and its meaning. One can risk the claim that, embraced in its entirety, it is, in a way, nihilistic art, where one object can be attributed to separate goals and ideas. This is the deliberate result of borrowing from the world of pop culture, which by definition does not serve the construction of a single idea, but merely borrows objects by subjecting them to various formal pressures and processing through mass media according to fashion and demand.

His art, viewed from a perspective that encompasses various cycles, under the guise of joy and openness to the world, conceals the anxiety caused by the entropy of meanings and the disappearance of their previous meanings. The ease with which man makes these changes is the guiding axis in Mariusz Dydo's art.

One of the larger interesting works in Mariusz Dydo's dossier is a sculpture depicting a five-meter-long pomade wrapped in cellophane paper.

The starting point for the sculpture "Sweet as candy" aka "Freedom Premium" is a reflection on the concept of Freedom. The author gave it a meaning close to pleasure and the fulfillment of a craving, combined with temptation and the promise of a hidden reward. The accuracy of the understanding of the message depended on the reflections and codes of meaning that were closest to the viewer, and hence the most common association that was the reasoning for awarding the sculpture the first prize at the "Crossroads of Freedom" International Competition was that with the "Solidarity" chocolate factory. Following other sculptures by Mariusz Dydo, one can easily see that the praise of infantilism here goes hand in hand with a warning against succumbing too easily to its traps. One could quote here the parable of the wolf in sheep's clothing, and so what is a colorful enticing package with a declaration of value and content may turn out to be an unsavory joke with a bitter taste. The lump of the sculpture was perfectly developed in the illusion of the creases of the cellophane casing, and the automotive paint finish created a complement to it that Jeff Koons himself, with whom the author is sometimes compared, would not be ashamed of.

You can see this bittersweet warning and promise in one in Ronald Reagan Park in Gdansk.

The author says of himself that he is another incarnation of the Paleolithic hunter adding his story to the history written on the walls of Lascaux, Altamira and others still undiscovered, and that his hunting tool is a credit card, the hunting area a shopping gallery, which in a nutshell tells as much about a person as the collections of art galleries and museums around the world.

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