FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEMBER 12, 2003
CONTACT: Kathy MacPherson, Gallery Outreach Coordinator
310.665.6909; galleryinfo@otis.edu; Images available
XAWERY WOLSKI: POLVO/PROCH/DUST
January 16 -February 21, 2004
Gallery tour with the artist on Friday, January 16, 6:30 pm followed by a reception from 7-9pm
LOS ANGELES, CA -- The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the following sculpture exhibition, Xawery Wolski: Polvo/Proch/Dust, January 16 -February 21, 2004. The artist is conducting a tour of the exhibition on Friday, January 16 at 6:30 pm followed by a reception from 7-9 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
“The body parts that Wolski sculpts, like his other unique pieces that contain floral elements or amplified views of the epidermis, bear reference to a kind of erotic theater or a hieroglyph of
Xawery Wolski, Cadena, 1998 desire.” - Fernando Castro Florez
Polvo/Proch/Dust includes Xawery Wolski’s sensuous, large-scale terracotta forms. The exhibition title “dust” in Spanish, Polish, and English bears homage to his global citizenry, as well as to the eventual “dust to dust” of the physical body, and the artist’s material. The exhibition highlights work completed in the last several years and includes a giant replica of a forty-foot steel chain; snaking intestinal tracks and elegant, minimal flesh forms; and rings of bulbous “clouds” suspended from fishing wire, all fashioned in smooth, skin-like terracotta. Growing up in Poland and residing in Mexico since 1996, Wolski’s carnal and visceral forms echo the predominant Catholic influence of these two countries. Very reminiscent of the tradition of ex-votos, his often headless or otherwise minimized human forms rest meditatively between the secular and religious.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEMBER 12, 2003
CONTACT: Kathy MacPherson, Gallery Outreach Coordinator
310.665.6909; galleryinfo@otis.edu; Images available
XAWERY WOLSKI: POLVO/PROCH/DUST
January 16 -February 21, 2004
Gallery tour with the artist on Friday, January 16, 6:30 pm followed by a reception from 7-9pm
LOS ANGELES, CA -- The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the following sculpture exhibition, Xawery Wolski: Polvo/Proch/Dust, January 16 -February 21, 2004. The artist is conducting a tour of the exhibition on Friday, January 16 at 6:30 pm followed by a reception from 7-9 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
“The body parts that Wolski sculpts, like his other unique pieces that contain floral elements or amplified views of the epidermis, bear reference to a kind of erotic theater or a hieroglyph of
Xawery Wolski, Cadena, 1998 desire.” - Fernando Castro Florez
Polvo/Proch/Dust includes Xawery Wolski’s sensuous, large-scale terracotta forms. The exhibition title “dust” in Spanish, Polish, and English bears homage to his global citizenry, as well as to the eventual “dust to dust” of the physical body, and the artist’s material. The exhibition highlights work completed in the last several years and includes a giant replica of a forty-foot steel chain; snaking intestinal tracks and elegant, minimal flesh forms; and rings of bulbous “clouds” suspended from fishing wire, all fashioned in smooth, skin-like terracotta. Growing up in Poland and residing in Mexico since 1996, Wolski’s carnal and visceral forms echo the predominant Catholic influence of these two countries. Very reminiscent of the tradition of ex-votos, his often headless or otherwise minimized human forms rest meditatively between the secular and religious.
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