Miêdzy widzeniem a przywidzeniem
Between seeing and imaging. On glass objects by Zworska-Raziuk

Summary/Abstract: Barbara Zworska-Raziuk shows light effects in glass. She concentrates on forms of objects. She says that, for a long time, she was trying to find her own artistic path, and she found it when she discovered the qualities of plate glass. She puts together the pieces of colorless glass in order to show the human silhouettes. She doesn’t sculpt portraits, but, rather, the images of heads and busts. Light beam easily penetrates translucent pieces of glass and brakes in each of them. The artist likes contrasts between shadows and bright-lighted parts of her sculpture. ‘A Sad Angel’ shows the human head surrounded by a halo. It suggests a metaphysical aspect of the sculpture. The piece of glass looks immaterial; it resembles a figure from the Gethsemane Garden. ‘A Moon Rise’ shows two overlapping profiles. They can be interpreted as the profiles of the Moon and the Sky. ‘Saint Anthony’ looks like a cloud filled with light. ‘A woman looking up into the sky’ is a reminiscence of an unworldly experience. There is a dreamy atmosphere, which surrounds Zworska’s work. She likes symbolic aspects of her work. The artist often combines glass with ceramic materials. She likes the contrast between translucent glass and opaque clay. She likes different kinds of texture. Her sculpture resembles ice cubes combined with pieces of rocks. The titles of her sculpture reveal the humanitarian truth hidden in objects. The artist shows how people feel, and what they long for. She concentrates on their expectations and experiences, which she colors with tints of life and light.

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