Krzysztof M. Bednarski (b. 1953, Krakow), "Moby Dick (Piccolo)," 2016

Biography
Krzysztof M. Bednarski - sculptor, born in 1953 in Cracow, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1973-1978, in the studios of Prof. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz and Prof. Oskar Hansen), active in various creative disciplines, once closely associated with the paratheatrical explorations of Jerzy Grotowski, for whom he designed posters (1976 - 81). Since 1986 he has lived in Rome; he is also intensely present on the Polish art scene. In his early works he referred to communist propaganda (Total Portrait of Karl Marx, 1978), and the socio-political situation of Poland under martial law (Victoria-Victoria,1983, in the collection of the National Museum in Cracow). His best-known realization is the sculptural installation Moby Dick (1987), which is in the collection of the Museum of Art - ms2 in Lodz. This work is a kind of icon of sculptural art of the last decades of the 20th century in Poland. The works of Krzysztof M. Bednarski can be found in the collections of the most important Polish museums: the National Museums in Cracow, Poznan, Szczecin, Warsaw, Wroclaw, the Art Museum in Lodz, the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, the Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, the Center for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Studio Gallery in Warsaw, the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Warsaw. Leon Wyczółkowski in Bydgoszcz, the Center for Research of Jerzy Grotowski's Creativity in Wroclaw, the collections of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Lublin, Katowice, Lodz and Wroclaw, the collection of the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, in the Poster Museum in Wilanow, as well as in foreign collections, including. Collezione Giorgio Franchetti in Rome, Fondazione Federico Fellini in Rimini, Fondazione Morra in Naples, Fondazione Orestiadi in Gibellina, Sicily, Fondazione Mario Schifano in Rome, Targetti Light Art Collection in Florence, International Art Collection in Certosa di Padulla (Palermo), Art Museum in Rauma, and in numerous private collections at home and abroad.