TOMASZ STANGRECKI
1985-1988 Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Katowice Campus),
1988 – 1993 Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
During his long professional career, his art has crystallized around two paths –
The first path comprise his collaborations with other people and institutions
2000-2010 – he collaborated with the playwright and director Ingmar Villqist as a set designer and assistant director in the following performances: Helver’s Night, Anaerobes, Oscar and Ruth, and The Case of the City of Ellmit
2005 – he was the set designer and director’s assistant in Piotr Szmitke’s opera The Hysterical Museum of Mme Eurosis, performed at the Silesian Opera in Bytom
2005 – he worked as second set designer and production manager for the full-length feature film Helmucik
2010 –– he worked as second set designer and production manager for the full-length feature film “Ewa”, in which he also made his acting debut
2011 – He collaborated with the cinematographer Adam Sikora – test shooting for the film Mill and Cross directed by Lech Majewski
2021 – member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers2021 – member of Programme Committee of the Goldsmithing Artists’ Association
In the second path of his career has concentrated on his own individual works of sculpture, drawings, paintings, spatial, functional and advertising designs, as well as art jewellery. Currently, his principal creative focus is artwork based on silver and precious metals – micro-sculptures, three-dimensional bas-reliefs where form is subordinate to function – in which he alludes to archetypes and anthropological symbols from our cultural past.
His fascination with amber:
2002-2004 – in collaboration with Andrzej Urbanowicz, Art Gallery in Katowice – Hotel Warszawa
2005 – An exhibition of his art jewellery organized in the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom
2019 – 2021 – ‘Other Worlds’ – an exhibition of his silver sculpture on show in Sopot, Krakow and Warsaw.
2021 – 2022 – He took part in the Amberif Design AWARD competition and the Amberif fair
2022 – He took part in the DOTYK competition and his work featured in the post-competition exhibition organized as part the Legnica Jewellery Festival Silver.
2022 – LOOK AT exhibition… organized as part of the Legnica Jewellery Festival Silver.
2022 – TRENDBOOK 2022 – a publication featuring art works and an exhibition in the Amber Museum in Gdansk.
2022 – Fashion and Amber Jewellery Show in collaboration with Joanna Weyna PUDU and Dorota Cenecka – Gin Atelier
2022 – Exhibition – “In an Amber Frame” – held in Międzyzdroje as part of the Festival of Stars
2022 – Milano Jewellery Week – exhibition organized as part of the ‘WATER-EARTH-WIND-FIRE” scenario
2023 – Exhibition – “In an Amber Frame” – in the Natural History Museum in Krakow
2023 – Exhibition – “Baltic Amber – in search of the form” – Mielno – Chłopy
2023 – Baltic Amber Treasure of the Bay of Gdańsk – Exhibition Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie
2023 – KuKuNa Atelier Wuppertal ( Niemcy )
2024 – Inhorgenta Munich Fair – Jubilee 50th edition – exhibition “In an Amber Frame”
2024 – AMBERIF Gdańsk exhibition STFZ – “In an Amber Frame”
2024 – Exhibition at the National Museum Tianjin (China)
2024 – Puck
2024 – Łeba – “In an Amber Frame”
2024 – Museum of Jaroslawiec
2024 – Sheraton SOPOT AMBER & OTHER WORLDS – solo exhibition Sheraton Sopot Hotel & Bator Art Gallery
2024 – New York Jewelry Week – DISCOVER
2024 – 21. Warsaw Art Fair
AMBER and other worlds – the latest collection shows the beauty of Baltic amber, which harmonizes perfectly with raw silver forms. Several dozen of exhibitions in Poland and around the world perfectly illustrate this work.
Jewelry by Tomasz Stangrecki – It does not evoke associations strictly with jewelry – in the commonly accepted sense of the word – smooth, shiny decorations. It can be more appropriately called anti-jewelry, or micro sculptures with the function of jewelry with brutalist, raw forms.
Creative searches take place in the field of FORM – or its absence (inspired by the art of Henry Moore – form is also there where it seemingly does not exist), SPACE, ARCHITECTURE, FACTOR – or its absence…
The artist now allows himself to look for and choose CONTIGENCY in art (not randomness). Each work is one-time, unique, special and is a kind of personal AMULET for both the Creator and the Recipient.
Inspirations and fascinations – biomorphic shapes, modern and Bauhaus architecture, prehistoric art – hence the impression as if the objects were artifacts obtained from archaeological excavations with typical maceration, or referred to the rock engravings of Altamira or Lascaux.
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