Robert Florczak, Eagle no. 3
Steel frame, scythes, wrenches, saws
Work signed,
Dimensions: 260 x 85 cm
Year of creation: 2008
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Robert Florczak. Born in 1955 in Warsaw, Poland. Graduate of the State Higher School of Fine Arts (now the Academy of Fine Arts) in Gdansk, graduated from the Faculty of Painting in 1988, habilitated in 2009. From 1990 to 2010 he was an assistant in the Drawing Studio, and currently runs the Art in Public Space studio at the Faculty of Painting. He is a recipient of the Pomeranian Marshal's Theater Award, the Sopot Muse Award and the Pomeranian Art Award. He has performed in the USA, Brazil, China, Germany, France, Turkey, Lithuania and Latvia. He has produced dozens of performances, including outdoor and multimedia, several short films, three monumental sculptures/objects, and 19 years of running the SFINKS club and gallery.
"In art I am not looking for perfection or revolution, I am looking for an adventure sanctioned by a subjective sense of beauty. My painting pedigree is very important to me, but in fact I am a mongrel in whose blood a rapid stream flows: sculpture, performance, theater, film and even architecture or interiors. I lick everything I encounter on my path as an artist with the carelessness of a toddler. I have an obvious attraction to monumentalism and expanding, if not exceeding, frameworks. In recent years, my favorite painting substrate has been an advertising banner, to which I give new meanings with all the familiar wealth of painting means. In this way, painterly recycling counterattacks marketing arts. Years ago I fell in love with a scythe. In front of the marten furnace I certainly saved more than four hundred beautiful slender reapers. From them I create steel wings and eagles."
