The first incarnation of Windows 2023 sees Marianna Serocka present her installation inspired by the story of Albert Zalewski’s lost 1974 sculpture, Temptation. For years, the cast bronze snake stood by the pond in Oliwa Park. In the 1990s, instead of tempting Adam and Eve with the apple, the Biblical snake aroused the desire of local scrap metal collectors, who ultimately stole it. Today, the only thing left of the sculpture is its stone pedestal and fragments of fastening elements. The fate of art objects introduced into public space is sometimes surprising. Usually, it is a highly risky business. Artworks become helpless; their safety hanging on several aspects, many of which their authors or custodians could not foresee.
Marianna will try to recreate the lost snake using unorthodox materials that will no longer attract potential thieves. She will use painting and sculpting techniques faithful to her trademark style. Her installation will be exhibited at the LKW Gallery for two weeks.
MARIANNA SEROCKA
"I usually seek inspiration in everyday situations and personal experience. I like naïve art and children’s art. My favourite subjects concern nature, fun, and folklore. I work predominantly with manual and digital drawings and photographs.
I graduated from the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Prof. Leszek Misiak’s studio and Dr Agata Pankiewicz’s studio, 2014). I am an illustrator and author of comic books, twice awarded the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków. Between 2012 and 2013, I continued my studies at Aalto University. I am the author of Disco Cry, a comic book novella published by Centrala (2016), whose style refers to naïve primitivism. My most recent book is Kuch luftowy (Timof i Cisi Wspólnicy, 2022)."
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