About Life and Death

Among the latest works by Olaf Brzeski presen­ted at the Adven­ture exhibition, there is a short series of intimate objects with a decorative and func­tional charac­ter. These are original, ceramic vases with attached ashtrays.

Post Tenebras Lux

The set of in-​glaze pain­ted and triple-​fired ceramic plates bears a Latin title: Post Tenebras Lux, which mean “after dark­ness comes the light”.

The Adventures of the Boiling Head

Bend of Black Thought

This unique object of pain­ted black steel, attached to the ceiling, evokes a cer­tain state of mind of the artist.

Illumination

The Life of a Pipe

A Piece of Wood the Size of a Briefcase Is No Particular Thought in Its Pure Form. I Dropped It into the Sea

Handy Landscape

Tu montreras ma tête au peuple, elle en vaut la peine (“Do not forget to show my head to the people, it is well worth seeing”)

I Speak Things

Camera

Loosing Face

Whisper from the Back of the Head

Dorota

Dorota is a monumen­tal por­trait of a short woman – her 280 cm heigh body is prenaturally large and over­scaled, yet sur­prisin­gly flimsy.

At Heart

Self-portrait

The artist’s self-​portrait as an endearing liar – a flesh and blood Pinokio.

Out of Love For A Woman

The monumen­tal yet frail and shaky com­position is an illusionistic trick of a sculptor.

Shine

The object is a drawing recreated in a 20:1 scale using welded steel bars. It is based on a sketch made by the artist after staring straight into the sun for 10 seconds.

Untitled, from the Wet and Dry series