ARTCHAT | The Transformation - artistic beginnings. A retrospective

Let’s make a few steps into the past. We already talked about Marian Gołogórski’s artistic beginnings, and studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Doing that, we should also say a few words about his diploma work.

Coming up...a retrospective

Małgorzata Łojko exhibition | Bulwary Sztuki Foundation & Mostowa Artcafe

Marian Gołogórski and Bulwary Sztuki Foundation would like to invite you for the vernissage of Małgorzta Łojko's exhibition. The vernissage will take place on September 1st 2012, at 7 p.m. in Mostowa Artcafe in Krakow. Marian Gołogórski is the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition will last until 26.10.2012.

Adres | Address:

Mostowa Artcafe
ul. Mostowa 8
31-061 Kraków
Poland

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ARTCHAT | Lamb Award by Marian Gologorski on Summer Jazz Festival

Traditionally, as every year, one of the most important cultural event in Krakow is Summer Jazz Festival. During this festival, the most outstanding jazz musicians are honored with a  very prestigious prize, the Lamb Award. Marian Gołogórski is an author of the bronze statue that was inspired by prof. Jerzy Skarżyński’s drawings of lambs. What’s more, from the very beginning of the festival, the lamb’s drawing has been used as a logo. Since 2001, every single year the prize has been given to the selected astonishing artists like:

Lamb Award statue by Marian Gołogórski

Jerzy “Dudus” Matuszkiewicz, Andrzej Kurylewicz and Wanda Warska, Wojciech Karolak, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Janusz Muniak, Przemyslaw Dyakowski, Tomasz Stańko, Andrzej Trzaskowski, Roman “Gucio” Dyląg”, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Jan Boba.

We hope to see you on the Summer Jazz Festival in Krakow!
To find out more about festival and Lamb Award, visit the festival website.

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Filip Kalkowski's paintings exhibition | Bulwary Sztuki Foundation & Mostowa Artcafe

I warmly invite you to the vernissage of the exhibition of paintings by Filip Kalkowski. The event will take place on July 7th, 2012 at 7 pm in Mostowa Artcafe, at 8 Mostowa St, Krakow.

Kind regards,
Marian Gołogórski

 

 

Filip Kalkowski | Akademia Niedźwiedzia II

Filip Kalkowski | Akademia Niedźwiedzia

Filip Kalkowski | Ciężkie życie ma nasz słoń

ARTADVISOR | Zbysław Marek Maciejewski

Zbysław Marek Maciejewski studied painting in Wacław Taranczewski’s workshop in the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. A few years later, as a fully-educated painter, he started leading his own workshop in the same Academy.

Speaking of his artistic way, Maciejewski’s lifetime could be divided into two parts, considering the changes in his artistic expression.

Zbysław Maciejewski | Untitled | drawing on paper

The first period is characteristic for the author’s evident fascination with his own personality and sexuality, but also with his own ironic point of view about the world and people in general. Maciejewski was very witty and had a cruel sense of humor, sometimes up to the point of being sarcastic. He didn’t like unintelligent women, and he made fun of them and mocked at them in his works. That’s easily noticeable in his drawings. At the same time, he adored smart women – those who knew how to face his talent and intellect. That being said, the truth was that, most of all, Maciejewski loved men. They were his main fascination and inspiration and a dominant subject of his paintings and drawings.

Marina Krasnopolska's photo-installations | Bulwary Sztuki Foundation & Mostowa Artcafe

Marian Gołogórski and Bulwary Sztuki Foundation would like to invite you for the vernissage of Marina Krasnopolska's photo-installations exhibition. The vernissage will take place on June 16th 2012, at 7 p.m. in Mostowa Artcafe in Krakow.

Adres | Address:

Mostowa Artcafe
ul. Mostowa 8
31-061 Kraków
Poland

STRAJK | strike of polish artists, art galleries and museums

Galeria Gołogórski przyłączyła się do strajku artystów, galerii i muzeów w Polsce. 24.05.2012 galeria jest nieczynna.

Gologorski Gallery joined the strike of Polish artists, art galleries, and museums. On 24.05.2012, Gologorski Gallery is closed for one day.

Więcej informacji o strajku mogą Państwo znaleźć na blogu Obywatelskiego Forum Sztuki Współczesnej:
http://forumsztukiwspolczesnej.blogspot.com/

Grażyna Smalej's paintings exhibition | Mostowa Artcafe | Bulwary Sztuki Foundation

Marian Gołogórski and Bulwary Sztuki Foundation would like to invite you for the vernissage of Grażyna Smalej's paintings exhibition. The vernissage will take place on April 14th 2012, at 7 p.m. in Mostowa Artcafe in Krakow. Marian Gołogórski is the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition will last until 15.06.2012.

Grażyna Smalej | Swim | oil on canvas | 130x100 cm | 2011

Grażyna Smalej | Swim XLIX | oil on canvas | 115x130 cm | 2011

Grażyna Smalej | Swim LI | oil on canvas | 140x115 cm | 2011

Grażyna Smalej | Swim LXIX | oil on canvas | 92x80 cm | 2011

ARTCHAT | How it all began? A retrospective

At the beginning, there was a gift. As a little child, Marian Gołogórski very often modeled small forms and figures for fun. Creating own child's world, using plasticin and modeling clay, he was making first steps towards something that turned out to be his life-long passion and profession. There is an interestng anecdote from an early period of Marian Gołogórski's childhood. That's how he talks about this:

The good friend of my parents, Ms. Eugenia Hejmanowa-Olejnik, who was a Jewish survivor from the Holocaust, worked for Polish Radio. When I was 6 years old, she took three small and charming figures of "Plastuś" (polish children's book character) I made in plasticin. Eugenia passed my little sculptures to the editor's office of Polish Radio in Warsaw. After a couple of days, a very well known Polish actress, Irena Kwiatkowska, who performed the role of Plastuś in the radio programme for children, said "thank you, little Marianek Gołogórski for sending the beautiful figures of Plastuś".

We can say that it was his first success in the artistic field. Surely the most unexpected.

As time went by, Gologorski became a teenager, and had to make a decision about his future. Because he was still passionate with sculpture, he decided to leave Piotrków Trybunalski (a small Polish city) and start artistic education in one of Polish bigger cities. And so, Marian, as a seventeen years old boy became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.

Young Marian Gołogórski as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow.

What's the rest of the story?
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Happy Easter!

New artworks available in our online gallery

We're happy to announce that we have just updated our online shop with the new, fabulous artworks by a young and extremely talented artist, Lola Fischer.

Lola may be young, but has she's a very successful painter and graphic artist. Her portfolio is impressive, especially considering her age. To state just a few international events she took part in: in 2011, she exhibited Valencia (Spain), took part in OFAA artists exhibition Reconsidering Earth in North Art Space gallery in Jakarta (Indonesia), in La Menuiserie Gallerie in Villeneuve d’Ascq (France) and 6th KIWA Kyoto International Woodprint Association Exhibition, Kyoto (Japan).

In 2008, she was representing Poland during Third International Art Beijing Biennial 2008 Colours and Olympics in China and on Beijing International Exhibition Olympic Fine Arts 2008 in China International Exhibition Center in Beijing.

That being saind, we would like to invite you to take a look at her works in the online gallery on Gologorski Gallery official website. Click here to view our page. For a quick preview of what you'll find:

Lola Fischer | La chaise longue | mixed media | 2011 | 47 x 52 cm, framed

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Hello, spring!

Hello and welcome to the new post! We're celebrating the coming of spring, so we've just started a new online store on our official website. Click the link to visit the store and browse through the astonishing sculptures by Marian Gologorski! In time, we'll be developing our offer and updating the website, so visit often!

But that's not all! Additionally, if you purchase an artwork from the Gallery's online store, we'll be shipping your order for free to every place in the world! No matter if you live in China or you have a flat with a beautiful view on Niagara waterfall. You can live near Mt. Everest or you can wake up to the aurora borealis, it's still free!

Below, you see a sample of what you can expect in the Online Gallery: our new feature that allows you to view the sculptures from different angles so that you could have the whole image of how they look. We believe it would allow you to better see every single detail of the artworks.

Marian Gologorski, Male Torso, bronze sculpture, Height: 28 cm | Width: 16 cm | Length: 8 cm

See you in the store!

Coming up... a retrospective

It's not something unusual to look back when you're celebrating anniversaries, jubilees or moments that were important to you. As you know, Marian Gologorski's grand jubilee is coming, so we'd like to share a couple of memories from the past with you.

More to come soon!

Monika Ślósarczyk paintings | photos from the vernissage

 

We'd like to show you a couple of photos from a very nice vernissage of Monika Ślósarzyk's brilliant paintings. The exhibition is organised by Bulwary Stuki Foundation in which Marian Gołogórski is a member and art director. Marian Gołogórski is also a curator of the exhibition. As you can see, the atmosphere was really cosy and friendly. The exhibition will last until 06.04.2012.

Monika Ślósarczyk is cooperating with Gologorski Gallery in Krakow. Visit us to see her paintings!

Monika Ślósarczyk | Greed | 100x140 cm | available

Monika Ślósarczyk | The Anger | 100x140 cm | available

Monika Ślósarczyk | Bush telegraph | 110x150 cm | available

ARTADVISOR | 30/40 Marian Gologórski's jubilee

Hello and welcome to the new article from our ArtSpot column! We'd like to share our pride of the fact that this year Marian Gołogórski is celebrating two of his jubilees.

Both of them are very special and meaningful.

What are they? Click through to read more!

Download Marian Gologorski's beautiful catalogue

Marian Gołogórski is not only the Gallery's owner, but also master sculptor, internationally renowned for his sculptures, brilliant jewellery, fashion designs and extraordinary artistic glassware.

We have prepared something special for all the fans of Marian Gologorski's craft, but also for those of you who don't know him yet. Although it shows only a small part of Marian Gołogórski's artistic achievements, it could give you an image of how unique his craft is.

What's inside the catalogue? 
Click to read after the fold!

ARTCRAFT | Patinating

Hello and welcome to the second of our articles covering artistic craft.

Today's article is going to be about patina that artists are using to refine bronze sculptures. Marian Gołogórski will be giving some advices on how to apply a patina on sculptures.

You'll also see some masterfully crafted pieces from Marian Gołogórski's workshop along with the beautiful examples of his patinated sculptures.

Marian Gołogórski | Wandering friend of L. R. | bronze sculpture | 2010

What's a patina then?
Click to read after the fold!

Coming up...

What is patina for? Why does it appear on the surface of bronze sculptures?
You'll find it all in our next post from ArtCraft column!

Marian Gołogórski | Wandering friend of L. R. | bronze sculpture | 2010