MARCED VI (2023) Bronze sculpture by Konrad Ziolkowski

MARCED looks at his hand in astonishment. He is in enormous shock, because it looks as if he has seen a living hand for the first time — a hand in which real blood is flowing. One finger moves, then another, then the whole hand. MARCED is terrified because he has realized that it is his hand, and that he can move it himself, that the hand does what he asks of it, so it certainly belongs to him.

In his “life”, MARCED is indestructible, immortal. He has golden armour with beautiful ornaments, ?a great sword, and a powerful rifle with a scope. He can jump high, run at tremendous speed, fire from
a tank, from an airplane. In his “favourite life”, MARCED has a super-fast car, or rather many such cars. MARCED is not afraid of risk, he never gets tired, he is not afraid of death, because he can be reborn as many times as he wants. MARCED has never felt pain and has never feared anything — the only thing he is afraid of now is his own hand. He is afraid of it because it is alive, real, and blood is flowing through it.

Long ago, he forgot about his body; he no longer needed it for anything. His body was reconstructed, divided among many different lives, and began to split between the real world and his “favourite” one. He stands on the border of true consciousness and passes into the multidirectionality of fiction...

I have the impression that sometimes we are all surprised by the fact that we are alive, that real blood flows within us, that we can direct our own lives, and that other people surround us; that we can die, sometimes disappear without a trace. When the boundary between reality and life becomes blurred, when, like a drug, you so easily reach for the possibility of artificially becoming whoever you want to be, forgetting your living reality.

I would be a hypocrite if I described MARCED without looking at myself. Part of this also came from my own pleasures — escaping somewhere else in order to forget the weight and the one-time nature of my own life. To be honest, reality often bored me; there was a little too little colour in it for me. Longer or shorter moments in another, virtual reality... Fortunately, today I am already quite alive.

Real life turned out to be more interesting, because now it is within it that I create fictions, and not the other way around.

Materials used:

bronze, granite

Details:

• Bronze sculpture on Other
• From a limited edition of 8
• Size: 18 x 180 x 25cm
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits
• Hurry, only 1 left in stock