Bogdan Markowski - Sculpture

He has had many solo exhibitions in Zamosc, Lublin, Warsaw, Lodz, Szczecin, Gdansk, Kazimierz Dolny, among others. He has participated in group exhibitions at home and abroad. He is the author of competition monumental sculptures in Zamosc, Lubartow and in the Roztoczanski National Park in Zwierzyniec, as well as in Burgas (Bulgaria), Debrecen (Hungary), Inami (Japan) and Viller le Lac and La Bresse (France). The artist’s works are in the collections of the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lodz, the Copper Museum in Legnica, the District Museum in Lublin, the Catholic University of Lublin, the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, as well as in galleries and private collections at home and abroad. He has won prizes and awards in competitions and exhibitions. He participates in many Polish and international open-air sculpture workshops. He realizes his works in durable materials, such as granite extracted from erratic boulders, marble and bronze.

The Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola presents the artist’s jubilee exhibition, where we will see both monumental granite sculptures and delicate, but strong in its expression, bronzes, depicting a rich artistic output. Bogdan Markowski, moreover, participates in the Polish-Ukrainian open-air sculpture workshop taking place this year – the second edition of Gallery by Touch.

From the exhibition catalog:

“Bogdan Markowski is fascinated by stone, he can talk about it endlessly. A significant part of his creative output was created in this material. He prefers granite, I think it probably best suits his creative temperament. It is erratic granite, existing in the colloquial consciousness as fieldstone. In our country, especially in the north, the retreating glacier left plenty of them. Often they are lumps beautiful in texture and color. Bogdan Markowski finds them, examines them, tries to penetrate and understand the interior of the lump. Many of his compositions, regardless of the title, have an openwork, as if the sculptor illuminates the solid from the inside to bring out all those stone qualities on the outside, to enter into a dialogue with the rock. The erratic boulders, and stone in general, have their own weight and statics. Markowski does not interfere and does not change this state of affairs. He often emphasizes these qualities inherent in the material.”

Exhibition commissioner: Anna Szlazak