This sculpture is losing its individuality, its face is brutally cut with a mirror of gold…
We cannot look in the eye, and the reflection we see will always be a look through the golden filter of consumption.
“Social Mirror” is therefore a question and a story about the pursuit of the only pattern imposed on us by the river of our epoch and its “mainstream”.
„Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play”…
Can love pass away? Is it only a game of illusion? An easy game rather than an everlasting promise? Do you rebel against an opinion that love is only a short term play? Have all the important values become relative and impermanent?
Three graces is a timeless topic taken up by artists in various epochs.
We know their performances from the Greeks through Rubens, Canova and many others. They were often an expression of the ideal of the female body and the canon of a given era.
What relationships you have with others?
What are you aiming for in those relationships? Do you care for them? Are they long lasting and meaningful?
Do you engage with them with honesty and awareness?
What sort of man are you? How do you percive a woman? Do you fully accept her complexity?
Except of her breasts can you also see her personality and spirituality? Do you find those values important? Or do you only see small fragments, like thought bubbles in a comic book? Have you ever put your eyes on a single bodypart, judging it without realising that it belongs to someone?
Have you ever dreamed about a body part without thinking about a woman as a whole?
Have you been told that this type of thinking is approved and correct? Does it makes you feel heartbroken? Or perhaps confused and torn-apart?
What relationships you have with women? Can you engage in them with responsibility?
Do you look for your own reflection in another person?
How do you perceive yourself?
Are you your own mirror or do you look for your reflection in other people? What if your mirror is a distorting one and if creating your personality and working on your own progress can only be possible through a relationship with another person?
What do you find most important in another person?
Does external beauty always guarantee internal beauty? Or perhaps there is nothing but emptiness in there? Maybe all that glitters is not gold…
I use a cartoon bubble as a mental shortcut, a symbol of the way of thinking.
Don't we make torsos out of people?
Taking shortcuts without taking them as they are? Whether the relationship with the torso is possible or rather makes everything break in the end. It makes us fall apart.
The sculpture "dreaming of him" was inspired by the painting by Roy Lichtenstein "Thinking of him", my Greek goddess replaced a teary American blonde dreaming about her wealthy gentleman in an elegant suit.
The sculpture "dreaming of him" was inspired by the painting by Roy Lichtenstein "Thinking of him", my Greek goddess replaced a teary American blonde dreaming about her wealthy gentleman in an elegant suit.
We often have ideas about the other person in our heads that are not a true and comprehensive image of the person. We get used to cutting off uncomfortable features, some deficiencies, imperfections, dreaming only about what is needed and comfortable for us.
We often deal with people as with those historic torsos of Greek statues that we admire in museums, considering them a finished composition, while they belonged to a specific figure, a man who had his faults and virtues, face, thoughts, dreams. Would we like it as a whole, or would it be more comfortable to stay at the level of the torso devoid of these weaknesses?
This diptych is composed as a passage, a portal. Where, on the one hand, we see a fist hitting the ground and, on the other, the Earth that shoots out with a scream.
What is your relationship with Nature?
Do you feel a part of it?
Can you feel mutual interactions?
Can you feel that violence towards her influences yourself?
Can you see a hard fist hitting the soft tissue of the Earth, breaking and disintegrating her?
Can you hear her scream of pain? Does it give her a human face? Do we destroy ourselves by using violence?
Does respect for others reduce aggression? Can being at peace with others be a key to having a peaceful coexistence with nature?
What is your relationship?
Two fists collide with each other and an explosion in the shape of a comic bubble filled with banknotes is created between them.
The fists break under their own pressure. The sculpture is constructed in such a way that its weight balances on the comic bubble, making the fists become the two sides of the swing.
(relief)
“I can’t get no satisfaction”
What role does money play in your life? It rules you and is the sole purpose of desire? Is consumption your only ambition? Are you able to truly Be in a world that is oriented towards having?
Does external beauty always guarantee internal beauty? Or perhaps there is nothing but emptiness in there?
Are you content with an attractive appearance or do you look deeper? Does external beauty always guarantee internal beauty? Or perhaps there is nothing but emptiness in there? Maybe all that glitters is not gold… How about we start to experience the other person by reaching tohis/her soul? Could it reveal true and everlasting values? What is your way of finding beauty in another person?
What does hope mean to you?
Do you see hope in your life? Can hope exist without struggle or hardship?
Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain outcome, often associated with optimism and the belief that things can improve or turn out well. It is the motivation that keeps people moving forward, even in difficult times, and gives them the strength to overcome challenges.
Hope can also be seen as a mindset—choosing to focus on possibilities rather than limitations. It plays a key role in mental and emotional well-being, inspiring resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity.
How do you personally define hope?
Are you satisfied with a tempting flavor of a golden topping of pop culture or does it disgust you?
The mainstream and the media give us a simple, tempting answer to everything. Usually they are served by beautiful faces on TV screens, or tempting headlines in newspapers calling to buy new and new products all the time. It is all like fast food that tempts with a view without providing a valuable meal. this symbolic sandwich made of a beautiful face divided by a newspaper with colorful slogans and dollars instead of lettuce is to ask us ...
Michał Jackowski
artist sculptor, born in 1978 in Białystok, Poland. In 2003, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a master's degree in art.
In 2017, his series of works entitled Antique Games was presented at the Florence International Art Biennale and was awarded with two prizes. In 2018, the artist's works were featured at exhibitions and art shows in London, Zurich, Como, and Basel at ArtBaselWeek. In 2019, they won two awards in Rome, during the Artrooms Roma show, where Jackowski qualified as one of 40 artists selected by an international jury from over 1,000 applicants.
Then, as one of the few Poles, was presented in Miami at the Scope International Art Exhibition during the ArtBasel Miami Week.
In 2022, he represented the country in the Polish Pavilion at the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Budelsdorf, Germany - and won the public choice award.
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Firma Pracownia Jackowski Michał realizuje projekt dofinansowany z Funduszy Europejskich Program Operacyjny Polska Wschodnia, oś priorytetowa 1 Przedsiębiorcza Polska Wschodnia, działanie 1.2 Internacjonalizacja MŚP, pn. „Internacjonalizacja w firmie Pracownia Jackowski Michał” nr projektu POPW.01.02.00-20-0034/22
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- dywersyfikacja przychodów,
- uatrakcyjnienie oferty handlowej,
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