Vernissage of Bronisław Krzysztof's Sculptures at the Norblin Factory
Bronisław Krzysztof's bronze sculptures created over the last few years were presented at the vernissage. The artist's trademark is his sculpting technique, which he has remained faithful since the beginning of his work. The sculptures on display are both large forms over two meters high, as well as smaller, more intimate bronzes. The artist's greatest inspiration is the ancient art. Human figures reduced to torsos, devoid of hands, heads, focus the viewer's eye only on an essential plastic problem. The movement of figures is shown not through the use of dynamic poses, but mainly through subtle suggestion. A certain synthesis of shapes, blurring of individual features, generalization, are intended to accentuate the main subject, which is the human figure - female, male or sometimes of undefined gender. A certain reduction of shapes sometimes leads to forms bordering on abstraction. The artist develops his sculptures in a way allowing not only to view them from all sides, but he goes a step further - the ideal forms of the human body are divided into fragments, which are disconnected by means of adding surrealistic elements.
Bronisław Krzysztof's works have been shown in more than 50 solo exhibitions and more than 160 group exhibitions. Selected realizations in public space by Bronislaw Krzysztof can be found in Paris, Edinburgh, Palermo, Cologne, Warsaw and Wroclaw, among others. His works can be found in collections of Polish museums such as the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN Warsaw, Silesian Museum Katowice, City Museum Wrocław, City Museum Bielsko-Biala, National Museum Krakow, as well as foreign museums: the British Museum, Museum Contemporary Art Basil and Elise Goulandris, Musei Vaticani, Museum Minci a Medaili Kremnica. Collectors of Krzysztof's art are also private individuals in Europe, as well as in the United States and Asia.