Barbara Falender, Tree of Life
Patinated bronze
Dimensions: 34 x 13 x 11 cm
Work signed,
UNIQUE
Sketch for a sculpture in marble. Year of creation: 1980
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Barbara Falander. Her work is considered one of the most unique traces of the Polish moral and sexual revolution of the 1970s. Originally a pioneer of the bold approach to the realization of the nude in spatial forms, today she is also an outstanding representative of abstract and metaphysical trends.
In 1972, commissioning a sculptural group - "Portrait of a Selected Collectivity. People of Krakowskie Przedmieście", she defended her diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She apprenticed in the studio of Professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, where, as she recalled years later, the issue of repeating nature ended in her artistic life, and the problem of interpretation stood. She continues to contemplate this problem to this day, using the most varied materials. She reaches for stone, bronze, porcelain and plastic (epoxy).
Eroticism was not only their only subject and content. They themselves were to become fetishes, provoking to be touched, to be not only looked at, but also peeped at," Zbigniew Taranienko wrote about the artist's works from the first period of her career. It was then that the famous "Erotic Pillows," "He and She" and other sculptures, touching not only female but also male eroticism, were created.
Awarded the silver medal "Meritorious to Culture Gloria Artis", she has won numerous Polish and foreign awards, and has received scholarships from, among others, the Italian Government with Laboratorio dei marmi Carlo Nicoli in Carrara, the French Government at Atelier J.M.V. Fine in Moustiers-Saint-Marie, The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland for the realization of a sculpture in 2001. Her works have been exhibited all over the world, including Warsaw, Copenhagen, Paris, Frankfurt and New York.
