Dimensions: 15 x 15.5 x 15 cm
Biography
The artist was born on February 5, 1935 in Popielów (today a district of Rybnik) in a family of miners. He made his first artistic attempts in elementary school, and perfected against the wishes of his family in Zakopane's High School of Visual Arts in 1953-1957 under the direction of Antoni Kenar. In 1957, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in 1962 with a diploma in the studio of Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. Ryszka created monumental artworks, outdoor sculptures, medals and plaques. He created stone and plaster sculpture, medals, printmaking with abstract and surreal forms. His artistic search, combined with his travels, led him to choose the human figure as the axis of his artwork and vision of the world. The search for the ideal was aided by a perfect workshop, handling techniques - as the artist himself used to say - intimate: drawing, medallions, but also the choice of material and finding the relationship between the subject, technique, material (stone, metal, ceramics) and man, nature. We can find all these elements in narrative-filled intimate or outdoor forms. In them, the artist created visions of a continum of temporal and spatial world, place and person, combining past, present and future into one.
