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Culture
A Sculptor of Gentle Persuasion - Bronisław Chromy
Anna Latocha
Krakow's Decius Park features a place where you can find a synthesis of arts - the Bronisław Chromy Gallery. In 1992 this sculptor decided to turn a devastated concert bowl into a gallery. Bronisław Chromy devoted a great deal of energy, time, energy and money into this project. He succeeded and it paid off, because today we can still admire the results of his efforts. It's not just the owner who exhibits in the gallery, there are also a great many openings, concerts, film screenings, and meetings. Why did this recognized and world-renowned Cracovian sculptor take up such an initiative? Perhaps because his own path to the arts, to expressing himself in art, to making a lifestyle out of art, was long and difficult. Now he can help others. Bronisław Chromy was born in 1925 in a small town, he had to go to work soon, and no doubt if it weren't for the people he met along the way and who uncovered his incredible talent, he would not have ended up at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. Stone and Dream is the very interesting autobiography of Bronisław Chromy, which not only presents the history of the works made (i.e. the compelling and expressive "Auschwitz Cycle," the sculpture of Christ on the cross in the Lord's Ark church in Krakow, the doors to the St. Maximilian church in Tarnow and the St. Bartholomew church in Nienadówka, or the medals which occupy an important place in his ouevre), he speaks of his inspirations and the people he has met, but also presents the historical backdrop filled with important events, upon which Bronisław Chromy appears as a man of indominatable character. The artist behind the Wawel dragon and the sculptures for Kawalerowicz's film Pharoah is also the initiator and one of the founders of the Piwnica pod Baranami. And since, as he himself states, a great legend grew from small intentions, the "Piwnica" monument was made in the Decius Park. Bronisław Chromy's work uses no avant-garde tricks, he rather cultivates the old principle of combining truth with beauty. His works have more in common with gentle persuasion than with the rebelious avant garde. Animal sculptures are an interesting motif in the work of the artist. According to art critics, they more approach anthropomorphy - which the sculptor in part achieves through portraying the beauty of creation - than to realistic presentation. Apparently a live pheasant might envy the splendour of the tail of pheasant created by Chromy. Because in Chromy's hands - the stone comes to life.
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Krakow's Decius Park features a place where you can find a synthesis of arts - the Bronisław Chromy Gallery. In 1992 this sculptor decided to turn a devastated concert bowl into a gallery. Bronisław Chromy devoted a great deal of energy, time, energy and money into this project. He succeeded and it paid off, because today we can still admire the results of his efforts. It's not just the owner who exhibits in the gallery, there are also a great many openings, concerts, film screenings, and meetings. Why did this recognized and world-renowned Cracovian sculptor take up such an initiative? Perhaps because his own path to the arts, to expressing himself in art, to making a lifestyle out of art, was long and difficult. Now he can help others. Bronisław Chromy was born in 1925 in a small town, he had to go to work soon, and no doubt if it weren't for the people he met along the way and who uncovered his incredible talent, he would not have ended up at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. Stone and Dream is the very interesting autobiography of Bronisław Chromy, which not only presents the history of the works made (i.e. the compelling and expressive "Auschwitz Cycle," the sculpture of Christ on the cross in the Lord's Ark church in Krakow, the doors to the St. Maximilian church in Tarnow and the St. Bartholomew church in Nienadówka, or the medals which occupy an important place in his ouevre), he speaks of his inspirations and the people he has met, but also presents the historical backdrop filled with important events, upon which Bronisław Chromy appears as a man of indominatable character. The artist behind the Wawel dragon and the sculptures for Kawalerowicz's film Pharoah is also the initiator and one of the founders of the Piwnica pod Baranami. And since, as he himself states, a great legend grew from small intentions, the "Piwnica" monument was made in the Decius Park. Bronisław Chromy's work uses no avant-garde tricks, he rather cultivates the old principle of combining truth with beauty. His works have more in common with gentle persuasion than with the rebelious avant garde. Animal sculptures are an interesting motif in the work of the artist. According to art critics, they more approach anthropomorphy - which the sculptor in part achieves through portraying the beauty of creation - than to realistic presentation. Apparently a live pheasant might envy the splendour of the tail of pheasant created by Chromy. Because in Chromy's hands - the stone comes to life.
