An article entitled “The World of Eugeniusz Sawczyn’s Sculptures and a Project to Restore Memory” has been published on the Culture and Art portal, focusing on the artist’s work and a project initiated by the Sztuka Obecna Foundation.
“Farewell” (1998) – Eugeniusz Sawczyn’s final sculpture – may serve as a good introduction to his body of work: intimate, yet surprisingly intense. It is precisely around such works that a project is currently taking shape, aimed at documenting and safeguarding the artist’s scattered legacy and bringing it back into the exhibition and research circuit.
The work of Eugeniusz Sawczyn (1956–1998) consists of small, three-dimensional sculptures and plaques that form thematic series. These forms exude a sense of distinctiveness, intimacy and – at first glance – isolation. However, this loneliness is ultimately illusory: another dimension emerges in his works, opening up the depicted figures – and us, the viewers – to the spiritual world. It is there that hope arises for overcoming human finitude and participating in a different kind of community – a community of souls. Sawczyn was able to perceive this spiritual dimension in the minutest manifestations of life: in a human being, in a bird, in a fallen leaf.
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