Maciej Syrek - Krosno, Poland

It’s been awhile since we’ve introduced to you an artist that Red Egg Gallery will be working with…

photo by Staszek Materniak
…so let us introduce you now to Maciej Syrek.

Marciej studied in Krakow and now lives in Krosno in Galicia – not far from Łazy.

photo by Staszek Materniak
Maciej works in different media – but his greatest passion is to work with bronze. When doing so, he feels the 4,000 year old tradition of humans working with this alloy…

…and, in fact, his studio feels like nothing so much as it does an alchemist’s den…

…a continual connection between the present and some distant past.

Maciej timed things so that he would be firing on the day we were to visit.

Here his assistant is stoking the furnace into the blazing heat…

required for the molten bronze…

with which his sculpted molds are filled…

and in this case then taken out into the snow…

to cool…

and become angelic…

and religious…

or something more contemporary…

meditative…
photo by Staszek Materniak
…historical…

or often frankly comic and ribald.

photo by Staszek Materniak