This sculptor and professor of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts was born on 18 June 1950 in Nowy Wiśnicz, graduated from the Wiśnicz Fine Arts High School and today runs the Sculpture Studio in ceramics. He also teaches religious art at the Papal University in Krakow and at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia. He designed and created dozens of monuments in Poland and abroad as well as a number of small sculptures and several hundred medals and plaques. He is also the author of arrangements of religious buildings including polychromes, stained glass and bronze doors. He freely creates both monumental and intimate sculptures with a strong emotional charge. He masterfully uses abbreviation or extended and ambiguous metaphors, always treating his work as a manifestation of admiration. Among numerous colourful stained glass projects, a cycle of relief elegies with drawings, commemorative medals and bronze miniatures comprising the ‘phantasmagoria’ cycle, the exhibition is enriched by a stained glass window made according to the artist's design depicting Christmas as well as special gifts given to the Professor by Pope John Paul II: a zucchetto and a rosary.
Professor Czesław Dźwigaj Room
Beacon
Monday, 20 May 2019