Object Armadillo Studio Borowski
Dimensions: 73x23x25cm
Market prices around $1500USD
Studio Borowski
Studio Borowski was founded in 1990 by Stanislaw Borowski, a well-known artist and engraver for 30 years. His works are in the collections of numerous museums, galleries and private collections around the world.
In 1993, Studio Borowski was taken over by Stanislaw's sons, Pawel and Victor Borowski. They expanded the Borowski Studio's proposals with their own projects: a collection of original glassware, a collection of luminous objects made entirely of glass, and furniture - animals.
Perfectly crafted objects made of glass delight and irritate at the same time. They delight because they are different from what we have seen so far. They irritate because they escape our aesthetic habits and tastes....
The great Artist and Father passes on his passions to his sons. He reveals the secrets of glass, shares his knowledge, gained through years of hard work at the smelting furnace. He slowly cedes his workshop to his sons....
This continuity of family tradition accounts for the worldwide phenomenon of the Borowski Studio. Stanislaw Borowski has created a well-functioning family business. Unique, original, surprising, unusual, avant-garde and beautiful glass. Glass made by Borowski!
Borowski Superstar! I would like to invite you to a meeting with glass that stirs emotions around the world.
Anita Bialic
Stanislaw Borowski is one of the most famous glass artists in the world... not only in Poland. His entire family is involved in glass. It is a joint family venture.
When I first saw the Borowskis' work four years ago, I was intrigued and delighted by the wonder of the animals and figures and their unusual colors.
Encounters with the Borowskis' art are always accompanied by excitement and joy. I believe that their creative activity will continue for many years to come. Poland should be proud to have such artists.
Victor Ashe
Stanislaw Borowski, born in 1944 Moutiers, France, is, next to Czeslaw Zuber, the most internationally known Polish glass artist. His "sculptures" are in the collections of many museums, galleries and private collections.
In the 1960s Borowski was employed at a glassworks in Krosno. He worked in mold making, glass blowing and in the grinding room. He became proficient in all glassmaking techniques. In 1981, the German magazine Neues Glass, well-known among glass collectors around the world, holds a contest for the 100 most interesting glassware of the year. Borowski sends in black-and-white photos of his work and gets into the prestigious 100. Invited to an international glass exhibition in Kassel, he goes to Germany and stays there permanently. He quickly gains international fame. He is invited to exhibitions at top galleries and his works are coveted by collectors around the world.
In 1990 Stanislaw Borowski establishes Glasstudio Borowski in Hennef near Bonn. In 1992 he moves it to Tomaszów Bolesławiecki to old post-German farm buildings, which he bought a year earlier.
In 1993 Studio Borowski is taken over by his sons Pawel and Wiktor Borowski. Pawel Borowski designs collections of original glassware and luminous objects made entirely of glass, as well as furniture-animals, while Wiktor takes care of promotion in Germany
and sales.
In 2007, the youngest of the brothers, Stanislaw Jan, a graduate of the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germany, joins the Studio.
The Borowskis' glassware is divided into three distinct collections: produced in short series, "Studio-Line"; sculptures and garden lamps, "Outdoor-Objects"; and limited and unique "Artist Edition." The largest customer of the "Studio-Line" collection is Rosenthal Studio-Haus in Germany.
Unique pieces from the "Master Works" series, prepared only for exhibitions, are created relatively rarely and generally go to the US market and the Netherlands. Stanislaw Borowski makes works only for Habatat Gallery and for very prestigious exhibitions. They reach prices of 30,000 - 70,000 euros. Works by Pawel and Stanislaw Jan Borowski cost from 5,000 - 30,000 euros.
Objects from the Borowski Studio end up in galleries, design centers and interior design stores in Europe and around the world, including Italy, the UK, Japan, the USA, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, India, New Zealand, Morocco.
Borowski's works are in the collections of famous politicians (including former US President Jimmy Carter), industrialists, bankers, directors of major corporations, artists (Whoopi Goldberg, Nicolas Cage own them) ....
Each project of Studio Borowski is carried out individually by artists and a small team using manual "hot" and "cold" processing techniques. Individual pieces of work are engraved, sandblasted, cut, polished or coated with color. When assembled, they form one unique whole. An unusual glass object sought and admired by glass collectors around the world....
Stanislaw Borowski's works refer to magical realism. They are perfectly polished and decorated with rich engraving. Their characteristic feature is the graphic and at the same time painterly approach to the subject, which is most often unreal, magical human figures.
The glass objects by Pawel and Stanislaw Jan are distinguished from their father's sculptures by their brighter colors, unusual, sometimes even crazy shapes. However, the father's "first guiding idea" is evident in each work. Both the way of obtaining characteristic colors by submerging hues, unreal creations of creature-animals, as well as the precision of workmanship immediately bring to mind Stanislaw Borowski's objects
