Dance of the Witches (2012)

Dance of the Witches (2012)
Installation
Artist: Ludwika Ogorzelec
From the series "Space Crystallization"
Poland


Ludwika Ogorzelec - "sculptor of space"

What you sculpt? - Space.

This is the choice made ​​by the Polish artist Ludwika Ogorzelec  there are now thirty years working space, analyze, recreate to bring the viewer to perceive that n ' is not visible. Creativity materializes in delicate structures and airy, even air, all braided lines, seeming sometimes suspended. Regardless of the material used, wood, glass, metal or cellophane, she has developed throughout his artistic poetic original space. Far as to consider a vacuum or an insulating screen, she sees foremost a volume. These lines, which delimit fragments, cells, components can also suggest areas of energy flows in the cycle as Space Crystallization 

Her approach, initiated at the National School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, enriched over important meetings, the most significant will be the director J. Grotowski and the sculptor César. Came to France in 1985, both to develop and to show his art to the west, she pursues her undergraduate work, begun in 1981: Instruments of balance . This is research of balance, not a state of equilibrium. Objects constructed of wood lines are crossed space. In this frame of filaments, multiple connections are all volumes energy interacting. There are already present its report to the peculiar nature, nature as well understood in terms of biology, shapes become the interdependence of phenomena as mechanisms of all kinds.

If Instruments of balance was the trunk of the tree, it starts a new cycle in 1990, Space Crystallization would be the branches. While balance Instruments are finite objects, designed to last, the works of Space Crystallization , more abstract, have a fleeting existence. Lines, ubiquitous, often focused on a concrete block hanging on a building facade, or even struck by a tree, soar into space completely recreated by the artist, the result of a long and analysis designed to the other, which will meet the work. Calculations, measurements, plans? The artist defends himself. If science finds resonances in the art, it is during the development, by the working of the material herself she feels she knows where to start, where to stop.

And those who would see his space in analogy with the spider, she replied vehemently that this is a misunderstanding. The spider spins its web to trap its prey, Ludwika Ogorzelec built its spaces to make us more free.

David Sansault, October 2010

 "...I want my sculpture to be like a passing phenomenon springing out of the world of biology, machines and instruments. From an understanding of sculpture as solid and heavy, viewed from the outside and made from lasting materials. I have left myself line expressing itself with the properties of its material and the space which that line encloses..." Ludwika Ogorzelec born and educated in Poland, obtain her master degree at Art Academy in Wroclaw 1983. From 1985 she start her artistic carrier traveling cross the world for her site specific "Space Crystallization" action . She show her work at 55 solo and around 50 curatorial group shows in many deferent places of the world.