Michal Puszczynski-Guozhong Ceramic Art Museum

Michal Puszczynski

Artist's Work

My ceramics have always connected to nature as the main source of inspiration and the idea of

transposing natural process into three dimensional objects. Surfaces of my sculptures are split,

cracked or wrenched open to reveal pitted, cell-like structures, trying to make the enigmatic,

abstract forms springing from my hands in the way nature produces rock formation. Using

intuition and response instead of design, the shape and form retain a sense of spontaneity. The

sculpture remains undone until I feel comfortable and familiar with it. Using simple shapes and

organic forms, I try to evoke real emotions and associations with our own bodies and processes,

which concern everything which is material. The fact that objects destroyed, degraded, in ruins

and mere seconds away from complete disintegration, have always been fascinating to me does

not come from a pessimistic point of view. It is rather a belief that after destruction and

disappearance, all things will begin anew, giving hope for a renewed process of life’s rebirth. It

seems to me that I have stopped thinking in the categories of the creation of artifacts, rather, the

side products of a certain process, resulting from reflflections and attempts at materializing a

transformation which I experience during work.

This method is continued during the wood-fifiring of my works up to the temperature of 1350°C.

Fire and high temperature melts clay and the ash that covers it. It is a violent and sometimes

uncontrollable process where I push the boundaries of fifiring and the limits of clays pyro-plasticity.

That creates unique and unexpected colors and textures on the surface of the work. I never want

to control either the making or fifiring of my ceramics – I’m basically interested in expression and

not in perfection.

Bio:

Michal Puszczynski P.h.D (1976) polish ceramic sculptor, member of the ceramic faculty at The

Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław He creates sculptures and

installations, mainly using clay and other ceramic materials. Building and operating Tongkama

kilns; Puszczynski was the fifirst artist to introduce Poland to ceramic wood-fifiring techniques

originating from the Far East. He has participated number of exhibitions, conferences and artistic

projects throughout Europe, Asia and the North America. Awarded numerous scholarships and

grants, including Fulbright Award 2019/2020.

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