Leszek Oprządek

Leszek Oprządek (born in 1964 in Krosno) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he received a diploma with distinction in 1988 from the Faculty of Sculpture in the studio of Professor Antoni Hajdecki, and another diploma with distinction in 1991 from the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Professor Janina Kraupe-Świderska.

Oprządek creates sculptural objects that explore the relationship between the interior and the exterior. As the artist explains: Everything — from the smallest blade of grass, cell, atom, to a galaxy — has its internal structure, a kind of construction, weight, and also that which no longer belongs to it, that 'something outside' — its surroundings. I try to make use of these observations and experiences by modeling objects from clay, plaster, and concrete, whose quiet inner life is revealed through a series of CT scans that transfer these physical forms into virtual reality, and through analog X-ray photographs made possible by penetrating 'x' radiation.

Leszek Oprządek