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I graduated from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2004 at the sculpture faculty in the class of Jerzy Nowakowski. From that time I run my own sculpture and painting atelier in Balice near Kraków. Ceramics is my favourite branch of sculpture. However, I also sculpt in wood, bronze and stone on commission.
Earth, water and air, freeing clay from water and fire, hardening it and causing inter structural chemical processes in clay, are the basic elements affecting the act of creation of a ceramic work. The truth, intuitively pursued by the artist, is expressed in the process of creation and is visualised in the subject of the work of art. The infinity of possibilities of shaping and structuring it makes the material (clay) an extremely difficult challenge because it accompanies humans from the very beginning and therefore is ‘soaked’ with an infinite number of iconographic meanings. My major inspiration in the technique is the ‘Terracotta Army’ of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Nature is my master.
For a couple of years now I’ve been working on the following cycles of sculpture and painting:
“The Universe”, www.seria.dy, Monotypes – in the making, Portraits – of people I either know or not.
Recently I’ve been working on three new ones: “The Story of a Certain Dress”, “Highways” and “The Isles of Bliss”.
My master – there were a few, not necessarily in the field of art, rather in the field of life.
My favourite artists – I’d go along with the words of Pablo Picasso: ‘All the aware artists have more or less the same masters as far as art is concerned and it’s difficult to generalize, sometimes these are single works.


Józef Murzyn about Mariusz Dydo’s ceramic sculpture.

(…) the author (Mariusz Dydo) represents the type of creative personality to whom cognition, and the awareness emerging from it, is the crucial condition for his artistic expression.
Mariusz Dydo derives the main idea behind his ceramic ‘Universe’ from the following phrase: ‘ a human being is as much a part of the Universe as the Universe is contained within human being’. “Universe” is an attempt at creating the metaphor of the essential homogeneity of the Universe. Using more or less recognizable quotations from the human body, visualized with the use of ceramics, Mariusz Dydo entangles man in the whirlwind of the vital processes of the Universe, among which fire is one of the most crucial elements conditioning motion and change.
However, whatever is creative and positive in the macro-scale, in another one, e.g. in the human scale, can turn out to be ultra destructive. The metaphor employed by Mr. Dydo turns out to be cunningly double-bottomed. A human being is as much a part of the Universe as much he/she is able to contain the Universe within him/herself. One can recognize and measure Cosmos as far as one can find measure and order within oneself.
The ceramic sculptures by Mariusz Dydo do not directly exemplify an objectively existing state of affairs. Their complicated metaphors, those contained in their formal layer as well as those in the stratum of meanings attributed to the sculptures, are entangled in unclear conditioning demanding a considerable intellectual effort from the spectator, demanding the ‘curiosity’, so stressed by the author, as well as the will to satisfy it.
The kind of material used in the process of creation, together with its due technology turn out to be the key to the cipher facilitating the understanding of the messages put across in the series.
It is the rawness of the material and of its processing that gives the beginning to the cycle of interdependences provoking subsequent strata of associations, and thus creating the final meaning of the metaphor.
Mariusz Dydo never sculpted the Universe. He is too conscious an artist to undertake a task bound to be an artistic failure. Neither did he depict a human being whom we are so accustomed to see in various artistic renditions. Instead he risked an attempt at narrowing the perspective and capturing the relation between human being and the Universe, a relation evading simplistic definitions. He made his own artistic attempt to describe the order governing these relations.
“The Universe” by Mariusz Dydo is an intellectually-artistic venture exploring the territory of basic reflex ion, visited so rarely nowadays by artists.
(…) stresses the truth of human materiality, of the genesis of human physical nature.

www.horrorvacui.dy

2005
oil
115x120

Gaya

2004
Ceramic sculpture
60x80x40

Metamorphosis

2005
Ceramic sculpture
40x25x20

www.thefalloftheangels.dy

2005
oil on canvas
115x120

To be madly in love

2004
Ceramic stulpture
120x70x20

Tandem

2005
Ceramic sculpture
30x20x25

Two

2005
Acryl on paper
25x35

A summer

2005
Acryl on paper
25x35