Dobieslaw GŁA (1975), From the series , "Poles of inaccessibility" ;2023

Wood, pigments, epoxy resin; 103 x 54 cm
Signature l. d: D, GAŁA 23
Work reproduced in the catalog: Dobiesław Gała Reliefs; Villa Decius Institute of Culture Publishing Series (2023).
Work presented at the exhibition: Dobieslaw Gała METAOBSZARY, Silesian Museum in Katowice (2023)

Dobieslaw Gala - sculptor, painter and draughtsman. Obtained his diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Prof. Marian Konieczny. He received a scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, where he worked under the direction of the famous Tim Scott. Laureate and winner of the Grand Prix of the 10th Triennial of Polish Contemporary Drawing. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland. Winner of many awards and honors for artistic work. Currently Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Dobieslaw Gala's works have been presented in more than 90 exhibitions at home and abroad. In October 2023 he was awarded the medal "Meritorious for Culture Gloria Artis". His work is considered a new opening in Polish art.
Characteristic of the artist's work is the creation of hybrids of drawing, sculpture and painting. Starting from the flat surface of a sheet of paper or a sub-painting, the artist uses procedures that deviate from classical drawing or painting.
Through surgical incision, layering of structures, using, paints, resins and pigments, the artist creates objects of rich and unusual depth. The fascination with physical phenomena like the physics of explosion turns in Gala's work into a journey of unlimited imagination of the artist and the viewer. These works, attract the viewer with a magnetic force.

"Dobieslaw Gala practices the art of opening doors. It is about suggesting to the viewer that right here, exactly in the place where this artist's work hangs, there is a secret passage to the other side of the world - where the visible forms of the invisible hide and where the shapes of the laws, in accordance with which our reality dances, are revealed - completely invisible from the side of our busy everyday life. (...)"

Prof. Dr. Andrzej Bednarczyk, Rector of the J. Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow
(excerpt from the introduction to the catalog: Dobieslaw Gala "Reliefs")