(Poland. 1960)
A hermeneut of matter and form who has resignified memory through the aesthetics of the object. Fossil remains, footprints, organic forms, garments, pyramids, chains, metals, networks, clay, complete his sculptural work, which is the result of a long investigation in Latin America seeking to unveil mysteries from pre-Hispanic cultures through art, to bring them to this day and age. Different format pieces whose that beauty stands out in interiors, exteriors or as artistic installations.
Biography
Xawery Wolski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1960. Studied fine art in Warsaw, in the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris ( studio Cesar ) and in the New York Studio School of drawing, painting and sculpture .His first independent work was created in 1983 in Carrara, Italy where he explored the local materials and established his artistic language based on reflection upon time and space with an aesthetic of minimalism. His work is executed in natural materials such as earth, fired clay, stone . ” I am interested in creating bridges of communication permitting past and present appear in unity and with hope that the dialogue in time and space continues in order for new configurations to be found .
He continued his post grade studies in Paris. His interest for terra cotta and it’s multiple anthropological meanings lead him to Peru and a year later to Mexico where he received grants from the French Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs to pursue his investigation on ancient materials and ways of expression with the purpose of creating contemporary artwork.
He establishes his studio in 1997 in Mexico City in order to create several site specific sculptures, and where he is working until now sharing time with his native country Poland. “Infinity Chains “, his major work started in 1988 is an ongoing project of site specific sculptures in form of gigantic chains executed in various materials such as clay, earth, bronze which symbolize his interest for unity.
His work has strong relation to human body through its organic, abstract, biological approach. He has participated in many artist in residence programs, spent long periods of his creative time in Asia and India producing sculptures related to specific cultural and meta physical issues, made over seventy individual exhibitions throughout the world. Among them National Gallery of Poland , Zacheta, Museo Carillo Gil, Museo Rufino Tamayo and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.
Distinctions
• Grant from Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA, 2008
• Critic Prize Pokaz for the best exhibition of the year, Warsaw, Poland, 2006
• Croix d’Argent pour le Merite et Devouement Francais au titre des Arts, 2000
• Special Mention, Prix Lacouriere, Biblioteque Nationale de France, Paris, 1998
• ‘L’envers des Villes’, AFAA Scholarship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Caisse des Depots, France, 1996
• Grant for an Individual project, AFAA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France, 1994
• Grant for an individual project, FIACRE, Ministry of Cultureat Paris, France, 1992
• ‘Sculpture Prize’ at the Bienale de Nice, France, 1991
• Grant from Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA, 1991
• Grant for an individual exhibition, Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris, France, 1991
Collections
• FNAC, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
• FRAC, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Alpes Province, Cote d’Azur, France
• National Library of France, Paris
• Worldbank Art Program, Washington, DC
• Mordena Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland
• Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
• Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Xawery Wolski, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, EUA
2016
Xawery Wolski, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, California, EUA
Pneuma – Air and Spirit, Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China
Xawery Wolski, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
SAOS, Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
2015
The course of Infinty, space,time and light, Elena Shchukina Gallery, London, UK.
Xawery Wolski, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Dessert, California, USA
2014
Fragments of Infinity, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Wyoming, USA
Xawery Wolski, Lisa Sette Gallery , Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Infinity Chains, Atelier Amaro, Varsovia, Poland
2013
Coming out of a dream, Galeria Omar Alonso. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Concetto Spaziale, EraStudio Gallery Milano, Italy.
Origen, Encuentro Guadalupe, Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico
Borderline, Centro Cultural Tijuana CECUT, Mexico
Moon Cathedral, Art Hobler Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2012
Retablo con Poema, limited edition poem book of Edward Hirsch Editorial La Joplin, FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico.
ReVISION – The Society for Arts, Chicago
Materia del Deseo, at Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT. Mexico
Time Interventions, Kai Hilgemann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Xawery Wolski, Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2011
Globos, site-specific installation at Museo Anahuacalli Diego Rivera, Mexico City.
Thoughts, Meditations, Acts, at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
Graphics, Sculpture and Installation at Espacio Escultorico La telaraña, Oaxaca, At Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca
IAGO, and at Bodega Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico. (cat.)
Bless at Bochenska Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Xawery Wolski – Portrait at Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala, Poland.
Un cielo para cada uno, Installation at Museo de Textiles de Oaxaca, Mexico.
Alejandro Sales Gallery, Zona MACO Art Fair, Mexico City. (cat.)
2010
Show me the garden… Galeria Caja Blanca, Mexico City.
Globos, Art New Media Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
W Pustke Nieba, Juan Soriano Foundation, Warsaw, Poland. (cat.)
MROK, Nobody knows of what a body is capable of, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Más Allá, five monumental sculptures at Arcos Bosques, Mexico City.
Zona MACO Art Fair,Galeria Alejandro Sales, Mexico City. (cat)
Morfologías, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain.
2009
Into an Empty Sky, Jim Thompson Arts Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
Itinerant exhibition wich had travelled to Khon Kaen University Museum, Chiang Mai University Museum, Thailand, National Gallery of Indonesia , Jakarta, Indonesia. (cat.) Zona MACO Art Fair, Galeria Alejandro Sales. Mexico City. (cat.)
2008
Nucleus, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
2007
Tattoos, Galleria Pokaz, Warsaw, Poland and Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico.
2006
eTime, Here and There, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. (cat)
Xawery Wolski: recent sculpture, Long House Reserve, Long Island, New York, USA.
2005
Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Koral Zalobny, Stefan Szydlowski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Emma Molina Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico.
2004
Many Drawings, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Polvo/Proch, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
Humus, Jorge Shirley Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
Polvo/Proch, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2003
Humus, Arthobler Gallery, Porto, Portugal (cat.)
Humus, Stefan Szydlowski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Tattoo, Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
Polvo/Proch, Arts Centre, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
Polvo/Proch, Art Museum Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (cat.)
Polvo/Proch, Museum of Contemporary Art MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico (cat.)
2002
Polvo/Proch, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (cat.)
Luz, Cuerpo, Materia, Galeria Arte Contemporaneo, Puebla, Mexico (cat.)
Galeria María Martín Madrid, Spain
Humano, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico.
2001
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, USA
“Humano”, OMR Gallery, Mexico City
2000
Maria Martin Gallery, FIAC Art Fair, Paris (cat.)
Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
1999
Galeria María Martín, Madrid, Spain
1998
Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Der Brucke Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (cat.)
Galeria OMR, Mexico City (brochure)
1996
Luz, Cuerpo, Materia, Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Perú (cat.)
Galería Forum, Lima, Perú
Humus, Galería OMR, México City.
1994
Museo De la Nacion, Lima, Peru (cat.)
Galeria Forum, Lima, Peru
Humus, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
1992
Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru
Forms, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
1991
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2017
Art Miami, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
Tangled! Fiber Art Now, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Analogías Escultóricas, Colección Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2016
The Ambiguous Lightness of Being, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA
2015
The Art Miami Pavillion, Lisa Sette Gallery, Booth A-36, Miami, Florida, USA
START Art Fair, Elena Shchukina Gallery, London, England
Mexican Ceramics Exhibition , Northern Clay Center, Minnesotta , USA
2014
Ex – votos d´artistes contemporains, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France
2013
Exhibition of the artwork Mercury at Arte Fiera 2013, International Art Fair of Contemporany Art, Bologna, Italy.
Mercurios, Arte 13 London. England.
14th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
Geometrismo escultórico mexicano, Galeria Arte Hoy, Mexico City
2012
“Arte Sano entre Artistas 2.0” Museo de Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Centro Cultural Caja Real, de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Galeria del Parque Cultural Reynosa. Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Museo de Arte Popular, MAP, Mexico City.
“Cinco de Mayo de 1862” Group show Project Uriarte Talavera, Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City
2011
Arte Sano entre Artistas 2.0 Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City.
Here, Now, Then, There and Here again…, Religare Art Center, Nueva Delhi, India
Aire VI International Bienal of Contemporary Art Textile – World Textile Art, Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Mexico City.
Rojo, Omar Alonso Gallery, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2010
Cimbra: formas especulativas y armados metafísicos, Museo de Arte Moderno MAM, Mexico City.
W przestrzeni, Opole, Poland
2009
Hecho en Casa, Museum of Modern Art MAM, Mexico City.
Revisons nos classiques. La terre dans l’art contemporain, Chapelle des pénitents noirs, Aubagne, France.
2008
Lightness and roughness of the line, Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Looky See, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
MACO Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City, Alejandro Sales Gallery
2007
Espai2nou2, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
Microwave Five, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA.
2006
Poza, Galería Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
2004
Ground, Field, Surface, Galería Robert Miller, New York, USA.
Pink, Galería Devin Borden & Hiram Butler, Houston, Texas, USA.
2003
White Paintings, Stefan Szydlowski Galllery, Warsaw, Poland.
Une culture d’entreprise, Musee des Tapisseries. Aix-en-Provence, France.
2002
Benefit Selections Exhibition, 25th Anniversary The Drawing Center, New York.
Systems, Order, Nature, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery”, Houston, Texas, USA.
Time, Stone, Clay, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, MUCA, Mexico.
Círculos, Galeria María Martín, Madrid, Spain
2001
Escultura Mexicana de la Academia a la Instalación, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Bookish Projects, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Papeles, Galeria María Martín, Madrid, Spain
2000
Inapropiadamente dibujo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Caleidoscopio: Lenguajes contemporáneos, Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, Mexico City
1999
En Blanco, Galeria Maria Martin, Madrid, Spain
Tierra. identidades dispersas, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes MUCA, Mexico City (cat.)
Fifth Salon Arte Bancomer, Mexico City
Museo José Luis Cuevas, Festival del Centro Historico, Mexico City.
1998
Hiper, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Forjar Espacios, La escultura forjada en el siglo XX, CAAM, Canary Islands, IVAM, Valencia, Spain and Musee des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelles, Calais, France
Spring Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, USA.
Escultures finimilenaristas, Museo de Arte Moderno, MAM, Mexico City
Aline Vidal Gallery, Paris, France
Fourth Salon Arte Bancomer, Mexico City
1997
Sous le manteau, Galería Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1996
Galería OMR, Mexico City and Museo de Osma, Lima, Peru
1995
Mostra da Gravura, Museo Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil
1994
Galería Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1993
Devant le futur, Exposición de Tae-jon, South Korea
Ars Erotica, Museo Narodowe, Varsovia, Poland
1992
Collection Musee Sztuki, Lodz 1931-1992, Collection-Documentation-Actualite, Museo Saint Pierre, ELAC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Lyon, France
1991
Parcours Prives, Paris, France
Magowie i Mistycy, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Varsovia, Poland
Jestesmy, Galería Zacheta, Varsovia, Poland
1990
FRAC, Fonds Regional d’ Art Contemporain, Marsella, France
Construction in Process, Lodz, Poland