bronze (cast in lost wax in one piece), 42 x 8 x 17 cm
Signed on the robe on the back of the sculpture with the letter B set on a vertical arrow
signed on the bottom of the base in marker: Biskupska | 2008 | 1/1, next to the monogram B with an arrow
Thewalking figure belongs to a series of sculptures that the artist has been creating since 1993. The essence of the sculpture is a box symbolizing multiple meanings - experiences, desires, values, the unknown depending on the feelings of the viewer. As a cuboid, it is an abstract form, but it stores a hidden secret. It creates its own autonomous world, a feature of which is also attached to expression - hence its close relationship with the walking figure. The understatement, mystery contained in the cuboid (box) directs the viewer to a path of reverie full of symbolism. The figure expressively strides into space, a sense of time towards an indefinite future appears. Since the 1990s, in the artist's work, this motif has constantly appeared in drawings, paintings, sculptures, but also in large-format realizations, including Delineating Image 0-1.
Bożenna Biskupska (born in Warsaw 1952) - an artist active in the fields of painting, sculpture and installation. In 1970 she graduated from the High School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She studied painting at the State School of Fine Arts in Poznań and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1972 to 1976, where she received a diploma with distinction in the painting studio of Prof. Tadeusz Dominik. Already during her studies she was interested in various artistic techniques, which she used in her work: from photography, geometric works in metal, painting in Prof. T. Dominik's studio, weaving forms in Prof. Z. Gostomski's studio to works on paper in Prof. R. Owidzki's studio.
She has exhibited her works throughout Poland and abroad, including at the XLI Art Biennale in Venice (1984), at the 14th International Biennial of Small Sculptures in Bronze in Padua (1986), at A Women's View in Washington (World Bank 1995), Nord Artw Budesdorf (2000), Form and Color in Chicago (Forum+ Gallery 2003), Art First in Bologna (2006) or at SIEGesIKONen/Icons of Victory - transFORM in Berlin (2009). She received First Prize at the International Biennial of Miniature Weaving (1982 Savaria Museum, Hungary) and the Stanislaw Wyspianski First Prize for Painting and Sculpture in 1984, the same year she was awarded a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Art. In 2004, together with Zygmunt Rytka, she founded the In Situ Foundation for Contemporary Art, operating mainly in Warsaw and Sokolowsk.
Biskupska's artistic output reflects the path of her formal explorations, from figurative art, abstraction to the creation of an individual language of artistic expression in Delineating the Image. The personal alphabet is dominated by line, mark and trace. The artist experiments with a variety of techniques, combining painting and performance, as well as sculptural and painting matter using concrete, marble flour, negative film and linseed oil, among others.
