Joseph Sękowski, Disco at the Vatican
Bronze and stone
Work signed, UNIQUE.
Dimensions: 43 x 20 x 19 cm
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Disco in the Vatican is a bronze encased reflection on the condition of the contemporary Catholic Church. The title points to a seemingly improbable situation, but, as the author himself states in describing his sculpture: "If pedophilia is possible in the Church, why shouldn't disco be possible? It's a very topical subject - perhaps someday we will live to see such a time."
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Jozef Sêkowski - graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1966, where he remained as a research and teaching employee for many years. In 1995 he was awarded the title of full professor. In 1978-2002, he served as dean of the Faculty of Sculpture. From 2002- 2005 he served as pro-rector of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Many recognized contemporary artists grew up under his wings, among them Mariola Wawrzusiak - a sculptor appreciated at home and abroad, current lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.
About the artist's work, Józef Murzyn said: "Rich imagination and skill in creating syntheses, abbreviations and formal metaphors eminently served the artist in building an original grammar of his sculptural formulations. It allowed him to penetrate without restraint his cultural affiliations and roots, ambitions and complexes, attachments and habits brought from his native environment, in which he was born and grew up, which defined the framework of his dynamically constituting worldview."
Józef Sękowski is counted among the most outstanding Polish sculptors. His work is held in high esteem in Poland - to mention his highly awarded monuments (Stanislaw Wyspianski in Biecz or Rafal Czerwiakowski in Cracow) - and the world. The artist participates in the most important exhibitions and his works are in public and private collections in Poland, France, USA, Sweden and Germany.
