2018
Installation was placed in the middle of the Wallenberg-Pachaly's palace ellipsoidal space with the preserved plafond by P. Anton Bartsch. Chronos – personification of time, depicted on it, despite the threatening scythe, plays the flute, which gives the scene idyllic and elegiac character. Istallation consists of an oval table, which doubles the shape of the ceiling, and it is also a repetition of other oval motifs contained in the building’s architecture designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans. On the table, like a fragment of the surviving porcelain tableware, there are porcelain casts from the vault of the human skull. Reaching for porcelain is not accidental - called white gold is the noblest form of ceramics and symbol of vanity.
The vault of the skull (calvaria) resembles a dome that is associated with the sky vault. Skull is almost inexhaustible symbol, a reference to reliquaries and skull chapels, where it is used as a decorative art. As an empty vessel, it indicates the origin of ideas and the source of thinking, as well as the alleged placement of the soul.
installation, glazed porcelain casts from the human skull calva, 16 × 13 × 7 cm
Survival Art Review, Wallenberg-Pachaly’s Palace, Wrocław, Poland
Documentation: https://archiwum.survival.art.pl/calvaria/
Installation was placed in the middle of the Wallenberg-Pachaly's palace ellipsoidal space with the preserved plafond by P. Anton Bartsch. Chronos – personification of time, depicted on it, despite the threatening scythe, plays the flute, which gives the scene idyllic and elegiac character. Istallation consists of an oval table, which doubles the shape of the ceiling, and it is also a repetition of other oval motifs contained in the building’s architecture designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans. On the table, like a fragment of the surviving porcelain tableware, there are porcelain casts from the vault of the human skull. Reaching for porcelain is not accidental - called white gold is the noblest form of ceramics and symbol of vanity.
The vault of the skull (calvaria) resembles a dome that is associated with the sky vault. Skull is almost inexhaustible symbol, a reference to reliquaries and skull chapels, where it is used as a decorative art. As an empty vessel, it indicates the origin of ideas and the source of thinking, as well as the alleged placement of the soul.
installation, glazed porcelain casts from the human skull calva, 16 × 13 × 7 cm
Survival Art Review, Wallenberg-Pachaly’s Palace, Wrocław, Poland
Documentation: https://archiwum.survival.art.pl/calvaria/
