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Between Erotism and Pain. On Malgorzata Dajewska’s Glass Sculpture

Summary/Abstract: Can we combine contradictions? Ma³gorzata Dajewska teaches us how to do it? Her glass sculpture is filled with flickering light. The structure of glass allows the light to mix with the matter. The shape of sculpture looks elusive. A series of sculpture entitled ‘Birds’ (1987-1991) refers to the vital energy and poetic geometry. The newest series entitled ‘The Birds of the Elements’ (1991) and ‘The Amethyst Eye of a Parrot’ (1991) are dynamic, expressive and lyrical. The artist revealed lyrical aspects of organic, translucent forms. In the 1980’s and the 1990’s, she worked on ‘ideal objects’, which would reveal the secrets of glass. Her glass sculpture resembles totems and ancient obelisk. The artist often adds poems to her objects. Poetry and the titles of sculpture explain the meaning of sculpture. Poems are engraved on the surface of glass and become intricate ornamental design. Both ‘Leaving Samsara’ (1996) and ‘A Hat of a Great Magician’ (1993) are the examples of perfect craftsmanship. Dajewska’s more recent sculpture is less colorful and ornamental. The forms of objects are more subtle and refined. ‘Proximity’ (1999) and ‘Intimate Interiors’ (2001) refer to painful experience and existential emptiness. ‘Sharp Cut’ (2002) and ‘Strange Beauty of Pain’ (2002) reveal spiritual aspects of sensual feelings. ‘A Glass Object of Death’ (2004) has a dense, almost convulsive form. Nevertheless, it shows ‘the light at the end of a tunnel’.

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