MATERIAL: Patinated bronze;
HEIGHT: 75 cm
Created in 2018
Sculpture signed

“Ein Augenblick (German blink of an eye) is an attempt to capture the continuity of our existence, stretching NOW for a bit longer, hence the forms of the sculpture do not only describe the shapes of the figure, but also the movement. The inspiration for this sculpture was the reflection on time contained in the Magic Mountain. Mann wonders there whether it is possible to tell pure tense without additional content – he replies immediately, saying that it would be a ridiculous task like trying to call the music of the chord of the hour held. that it << completely fills it up >>, that it <<shares>> and makes it << has some content >> and << something is happening in it >> … as inseparably connected with it as with bodies in space. ”These last words indicate the identity of sculpture and music. After all, the spatial object reveals itself to us only in part – the rest is a memory or a mystery. Jerzy Jarnus Zkiewicz also noticed this resemblance of the most material of the arts – sculpture, and the most abstract – music: “Sculpture is something that is at absolutely different ends and has everything in common [with music]”. On the one hand, there is talk, for example, of the mass of the sound and the musical texture, i.e. the principle of combining melodies, on the other – the melody of the line describing the body. Moreover, the spatial form requires a longer perception than the picture, because we have to see the sculptural realization from all sides. It is impossible to cover the whole thing with one look, because at least half of it remains covered. It takes time for things that are initially invisible to show up. Either we will only see significant parts of the realization, having some premonitions beforehand, or we remember what we have already seen. This is what makes music, stories and sculpture different from other plastic arts, where the whole thing is revealed to us at first sight. The sculpture has this potential for mystery, excitement from discovery and insufficiency resulting from the fact that we cannot have the WHOLE in front of our eyes. In this sense, it resembles our life in which we constantly turn to what was or will be as a result, forgetting that our life is like the blink of an eye and the only reality available is now. “