What do people and bees have in common? Yesterday I was at the opening of the sculptor's Boguslawa Koszałka exhibition. the impressive artistic path of the creator. after high school with a specialization in art and studies, she was associated with the department of Magdalena Abakanowicz. later choosing her own path and working at the university of art as a professor. The artist matured in the fabric studio, creating a unique fabric to this day. I watched how she used wire wrapped in infinity. The aluminum wire comes from those used in beekeeping. This is important for this story. The works created are miniature works that fit into barely twenty centimeters of their length, width and height. This is decorative art, beautiful things, works that you would like to have at home and look at. Can something that is beautiful in an abstract or organic way speak? One could talk and write for hours about the world presented, undersea lands, fascination with ocean creatures and its vastness. I was struck by the number of movements, small, systematic movements that have to be made to make these works out of this aluminum wire. What diligence and humility is behind this woman. How demanding and disciplined her days and hours are, or however you divide time and space, even in fifteen minutes it seems incredibly difficult and laborious. In a conversation with the artist, I learned that she also creates huge forms, which she presented on the screen in the form of a video during the exhibition. There was a work shown there consisting of a dozen hundred fish, each woven from wire, so that it could wrap around its designated wire. I feel respect. Bees, just like people, individually, as an individual, can sting and do a lot of harm, while as a community they do a lot of good symbolically crystallized in the idea of honey. This is what I see in this exhibition and for me this can be its message.
