Slawomir Brzoska is from Silesia in Poland and works as a lecturer in Multi Media in the Academy of Fine Art in Poznan, the foremost Arts Academy in Poland. He has also worked in Switzerland, Spain, France, Asia, Hungary, Montreal and in 1996 in Glamorgan, Wales. His work collects influences from many sources and has been also influenced by the work of Katarzyna Kobro a Polish constructivist. His work and ideas can be explored on his web site:- http://free.art.pl/slavek_brzoska

This project has been sponsored by the Poznan International Fair and especially helped by Professor Andre Wielgosz of the Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Mr Turkiewicz of the Poznan International Fair, and Mr Melinski of Melinski Minuth, Poznan.

Breath is an installation of nine formal elements, both simple and complex in their conception. The arrangement of forms in a spiral or fan-like formation is in one sense a distillation from Slawomir’s other very complex, ephemeral works, and in another way contains a symbolism which is rooted in Asian philosophies.

In Hindu philosophy all the universe exists between inhalation and exhalation. This is one moment of Brahma, one moment of human life. The cycle of shapes in “Breath” represents just such an idea. The work contains ideas of yin and yang, man and woman. The group has separate elements, not touching but in their geometry each is working for the other. There are nine points from horizontal to vertical to horizontal, growing and dying, standing and lying; circles, spirals and squares.