Zbigniew Frączkiewicz

is considered one of the most important, and at the same time the most versatile, Polish contemporary artists. He graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His series “Iron People” was recognized by the critics as one of the most important in Polish art in the last decades. Apart from sculpture, the artist deals with drawing, painting, designing architecture, developing graphic symbols, photography, functional design, creating videos, performing performances, happening, and also working as a teacher.

As Zofia Gebhard writes, “Zbigniew Frączkiewicz’s space is the space of the world. He is facing the earth, sky, horizon. It tries to live up to this scale. It stands against this scenography. His sculptures do not appear in space in order to coexist with it, but to be stuck in it like a foreign body. To hurt her. (…) Frączkiewicz’s sculptures are literal and symbolic. Their life is indeed the same as that of a tree or a rock, but the form, and if not the form, the context, places them in convention. Maybe not always readable, but always open to interpretation.

The severity of the form, the rawness and in some way even the ugliness of the matter, or at least its inertness, its expression, the truth of its nature – these are the aesthetics of this art, focused on the naturalism of stone, wood, metal, sensuality referring to our sensuality.

By assigning meanings and symbolic actions to objects, Frączkiewicz seems to strive to transcend the sphere of matter he has created. Asking: … who is man, who am I, here on earth, in the face of the world in which I exist, in front of myself and perhaps others, in the face of permanence and impermanence, suffering, death, what happens next … – by asking this he touches upon existential problems, which, after all, go beyond existence. ”

Zbigniew Frączkiewicz’s works are in the collections of the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, the District Museum in Legnica, the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Wrocław and in many private collections in Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands.