„Borowski Superstar!" - Paweł Borowski, Stanisław Jan Borowski
5.07.10 - 29.09.10 
BB Wrocław, Jatki 3-6 Str. 
www.galeriabb.com/borowski

A great artist and father passes on his passions to his sons. He reveals the secrets of glass, shares his knowledge gained over years of hard work at the furnace. He slowly leaves  
his workshop to his sons…

This continuing family tradition explains the world phenomenon of the Studio Borowski. Stanisław Borowski created a brilliantly functioning family business. Unique, original, surprising, unusual, avant-garde and beautiful glass. Glass made by Borowski! 

Borowski Superstar! Welcome to an encounter with glass that has people clamoring all over  
the world.  
                 Anita Bialic

 

Borowski is one of the premier glass makers in the world... not just Poland. The entire family  
is engaged. It is a family operation.

When I first saw their work over 4 years ago, I was intrigued and entranced by the whimsical nature of the animals, the people and objects with the exciting colors they had created.  
They have branched into the outdoors by creating objects which can be displayed outside as well.

People who are introduced to their work are always excited and pleased with what they see. 
I trust their creativity will continue for many, many years. They are a tribute to Poland. 
                                                                                                                                                        Victor Ashe

 

Stanisław Borowski, born in 1944 in Moutiers, France, joins Czesław Zuber in being one 
of Poland’s two most famous glass artists in the world. His ‘sculptures’ are found in many  
of the world’s museums, galleries and private collections.

In the 60s Borowski was employed in the glassworks in Krosno. He worked in making molds, and blowing and polishing glass. He became adept at all forms of glass making. In 1981, 
the German ‘Neues Glass’ magazine, known among glass collectors all over the world, held 
a competition for the 100 most impressive glass products of the year. Borowski sent in black-and-white photographs of his work and was counted among the prestigious hundred. Invited to the international glass exhibition in Kassel, he left for Germany and stayed there for good.  
He quickly gained international fame. He is invited to work at the best galleries, and his works are snapped up by collectors all over the world.

In 1990 Stanisław Borowski founded the Glasstudio Borowski in Hennef, near Bonn. In 1992 
he transferred it to Tomaszów Bolesławiecki, to the old post-German farming houses he had bought a year earlier.  

In 1993 Studio Borowski was taken over by his sons: Paweł and Wiktor Borowski. Paweł Borowski designs collections of original glass pieces and glittering objects, entirely made  
of glass, and animal furniture, while Wiktor handles the promotion and sales in Germany.

In 2007 Jan Stanisław, the youngest brother, joined the studio, having graduated from  
the Ceramics and Glass Department of the Academy in Koblenz, Germany.

The Borowskis’ glass is divided into three separate collections: the limited series ‘Studio-Line’; the ‘Outdoor-Objects’ glass sculptures and lamps, and the limited and one-of-a-kind ‘Artist Editions.’ The biggest recipient of the ‘Studio-Line’ collection is Rosenthal Studio-Haus  
in Germany.

One-of-a-kind objects from the ‘Master Works’ series, prepared specially for exhibitions,  come about relatively seldom and generally end up on the American and Dutch markets. Stanisław Borowski only makes works for the Habatat Gallery in Michigan and for very prestigious exhibitions. They command prices from 30,000-70,000 euros. Paweł and Stanisław Jan Borowski’s works cost from 5,000-30,000 euros.

Objects from Studio Borowski are taken by galleries, design centers and interior furnishing shops in Europe and around the world, including those in Italy, Great Britain, Japan, the USA, Mexico, The United Arab Emirates, India, New Zealand, and Morocco.

The Borowskis’ works are found in the collections of famous politicians (including the onetime American president, Jimmy Carter), industrialists, bankers, the directors of great corporations, and artists (Whoopie Goldberg, Nicolas Cage)…

Every Studio Borowski design is individually crafted by the artists and a small team using handcrafted ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ techniques. The various fragments of the works are engraved, sanded, cut, or colored. Put together, they create a unique whole. An extraordinary glass object sought out and admired by glass collectors around the world…

Stanisław Borowski’s work bring to mind magical realism. They are perfectly polished 
and decorated with rich engravings. They are marked by a approach to the subject both reminiscent of graphics and painting, and often are unreal, magical human figures...

Paweł and Jan Stanisław’s glass objects differ from their father’s sculptures through their bright color schemes, and their atypical, sometimes madcap shapes. But in each of their works their father’s ‘main idea’ is visible. Both their way of achieving their trademark color-scheme through melting colors and their fantastical monster-creatures, and the precision of their execution immediately bring to mind associations with Stanisław Borowski’s objects.  
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translated by Soren Gauger