Sculpture patinated/polished bronze, base black granite, Sign.M Wys/1/8, height 34 cm, width 48 cm, edition 1/8, 2021
Michal Wysocki's life has been connected with sculpting since his early childhood. He grew up in
surrounded by his father's emerging sculptures in a studio located in the backyard of their home in Wroclaw.
Years spent playing in the studio resulted in the fact that the choice of a life path seemed clear.
Michal's father, Stanislaw, is an established Sculptor whose works are recognized and
appreciated at home and abroad.
Living in Wroclaw, a city located on the Oder River, made it possible to develop a passion for sailing.
His sports career was a school of the fact that in order to achieve success, one must first suffer many
failures, but at the same time, consistently strive for the goal. The greatest sporting success
Michal was winning the Polish Championship in the Olympic 470 class in 2017. Sports passion
became the main inspiration, while researching and creating works on a student exchange in
Valencia and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, from which he graduated in 2009.
The presented series of graduation works under the title "Essence" at the Wroclaw BWA gallery
presented forms inspired by wind energy, movement and forces of nature.
Participation in sculpture competitions brought many awards. The most notable was
receiving an award in the competition for the monument to the "Murdered Professors of Lviv" in
Lviv. Work on the reconstruction of monuments to Joseph von Eichendorff and R. H. Goppert in the
Wrocław Botanical Garden provided an opportunity to face the craftsmanship of the old
masters. Michael, together with his father Stanislaw, made monuments to Pope John Paul II at the
Wroclaw's Psi Pole and Straszyn, several commemorative plaques including those of director Jerzy Has
and the sculpture "Orpheus" located in front of the Theater Museum on Liberty Square in Wroclaw,
which is a reference to Wroclaw's past and the work of Theodor von Gosen and his son
Marcus.
The most important task stemming from the conviction that nothing is impossible
to be done in the Wysocki studio, was to engage in the creation of tactile mock-ups
for the blind and visually impaired as part of the "See the World with Hands" project.
Starting with the first completed work "St. Mary's Basilica in Gdansk" through "Żuraw
Gdansk", "City Hall of Gdansk", "Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers", "ORP Blyskawica", "MS
Batory", "Castle of Pomeranian Dukes" and "SV Dar Pomorza", each successive bronze-made
miniature brought the development of technology and skills from physical work in the material to the
the transfer of modeling to the virtual world, 3D printing technology and the development of a proprietary
casting method. These miniatures are considered by many to be among the best made and
most accurate to the prototypes.
Today, in a studio located in the center of Wroclaw on an island between two canals of the
oder, two approaches to creating sculpture clash, one Stanislaw's classic work in clay
before making a cast in bronze, and Michael's - creating a form in the virtual world
providing almost unlimited possibilities. They often present the completed works at joint
exhibitions such as (exhibition in Zapiecek gallery 2010. Warsaw, Art Fair Warsaw 2010
2011, exhibition at the City Museum in Kralki 2011, exhibition at the Carriage Museum in
Galovice 2013, exhibition at Haus Schlesien in Konigswinter 2015). The works can also be
can be seen, among others, at exhibitions in places such as the Platon gallery in Wroclaw and Galeria
Kersten in Cracow.
