Wood, axes
Work signed,
Dimensions: 91 x 41 x 35 cm
UNIQUE
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"It was the time of Borek Fałęcki - this work was created there. Its initial idea was what the final one is, that is, two in one - function and form. A sculpture with the function of a hanger for axes. Axes - flint, stone, metal - have been among the tools of forest people ever since we realized that we could mold something (it's also an interesting story - that moment of realizing that we can mold something with which we can make something else). "I made "Ambassador" because of my love for the tool - for the axe. The axe has been such an ambassador for thousands of years, it hasn't changed completely - neither shape nor form. It's like the smartphone today is such a tablet, evolving from cuneiform writing on clay tablets - it's a continuation of the clay tablet. That's the history of the SUBJECT, and that's why the SUBJECT is a lovely form.
There is also - of course - in "Ambassador" a second bottom concerning the very subject of the person of the ambassador, who is, so to speak, a vanguard, because he represents a human tribe while being somewhere in our neighbors. That's why this form, such a dynamic, pecking order, is like this wedge that pierces us to the other person and opens us up."
(said Maciej Pecak in an interview with Tadeusz Marek)
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Maciej Pecak, was born in 1964 in Rymanow. After graduating from the High School of Fine Arts in Miejsce Piastowe, he developed his interests at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture in 1991 in the studio of Antoni Hajdecki. In his work he uses natural materials: wood and stone, as well as bronze and metal. He is the creator of monumental and sacred sculptures. He is also close to drawing, painting and arts and crafts. He has been living and creating in Krakow since the mid-1980s. His studio is located in the house of Jacek Malczewski.
"Maciej Pecak is a constant "traveler" looking for the perfect form, dabbling in shapes, structure, drawing and color spot. This is good, because this is what an artist should be - creative open and sensitive. A painter and sculptor in one with an innate imagination and sense of aesthetics, he makes his works full of themes, symbols and fantasies. They can be savored, covered anew and eagerly viewed." (Katarzyna Winnicka)
