{"id":993,"date":"2021-08-30T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/dev\/?post_type=object&#038;p=993"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:40:27","slug":"modernist-wooden-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/obiekt\/modernist-wooden-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernist wooden sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Technique<\/strong>: exotic sapele wood sculpture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dimensions<\/strong>: approx. 230 cm (height)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Object<\/strong>: The sculpture was made of exotic Brazilian sapele wood during a plein-air workshop in Hajn\u00f3wka in 1978 . It presents a monumental female figure conveyed using simplified shapes, referencing Cubism and Modernism. In 2004, it underwent renovation work, but this only caused its condition to deteriorate. Finally, in 2019, after dry rot caused the sculpture to fall, it was impregnated with epoxy resin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place: <\/strong>The sculpture stands in front of the entrance to a tenement house from Piwna Street. The ground floor apartment housed the studio of sculptors Krystyna Filipska-Frejer and her husband Romuald Frejer. Currently, The Old Gda\u0144sk Beer pub &amp; caf\u00e9 calls it its home. A small plaque commemorating Romuald Frejer was attached on the tenement house\u2019s fa\u00e7ade, next to the sculpture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information about the author:<\/strong> Krystyna Filipska-Frejer is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk. She creates metal and ceramic sculptures, incredibly imaginative and dynamic, while at the same time delicate in form and composition. She took part in many international exhibitions and in the post-war reconstruction of sculptures in the Gda\u0144sk Old Town. In the 1950s and 60s, she and her husband actively participated in the city\u2019s cultural life, co-creating the famous Bim Bom theatre, among other initiatives. In the 1990s she moved to the USA, where she played an active part in the Polish community\u2019s artistic life. In Poland, her works can be appreciated in Biskupin, Sopot and Gda\u0144sk, as well as in the collections of the Central Maritime Museum and the National Museum in Gda\u0144sk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Condition of the object<\/strong>: good, renovated<\/p>\n<p><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Krystyna Filipska-Frejer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author of the entry<\/strong>: Kora Kowalska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technique: exotic sapele wood sculpture Dimensions: approx. 230 cm (height) Object: The sculpture was made of exotic Brazilian sapele wood during a plein-air workshop in Hajn\u00f3wka in 1978 . It presents a monumental female figure conveyed using simplified shapes, referencing Cubism and Modernism. In 2004, it underwent renovation work, but this only caused its condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":36,"template":"","object_cats":[39],"districts":[47],"object_authors":[55],"class_list":["post-993","object","type-object","status-publish","hentry","object_cat-sculpture","obj_district-old-town","object_author-kora-kowalska-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/objects\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/objects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/object"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"object_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/object_cats?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"obj_district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"object_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/object_authors?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}