XAWERY WOLSKI



EDUCATION
1991
Institute of Higher Education in Visual Arts, Paris, France

1988
School of Fine Arts, Aix-en-Province, France

1984
Academy of Fine Art, Paris, France New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY

1980-83
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2018
“Xawery Wolski”, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, USA

2017
“Xawery Wolski”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, EUA

2016
“Xawery Wolski”, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, California, EUA
“Pneuma – Air and Spirit”, Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China
“Xawery Wolski”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
“SAOS”, Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, México

2015
“The course of Infinty, space,time and light“, Elena Shchukina Gallery , London UK
“ Xawery Wolski”, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Dessert, California, USA

2014
“Fragments of Infinity”, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Wyoming, USA
“Xawery Wolski “, Lisa Sette Gallery , Phoenix, Arizona, USA
“Infinity Chains“, Atelier Amaro, Varsovia, Poland

2013
“Coming out of a dream”, Galeria Omar Alonso. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
“Concetto Spaziale”, EraStudio Gallery Milano Italy.
“Origen”, Encuentro Guadalupe, Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico
“Borderline”, Centro Cultural Tijuana CECUT, Mexico.
“Moon Cathedral”, Art Hobler Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

2012
“Retablo con Poema”, limited edition poem book of Edward Hirsch Editorial La Joplin, FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico.
“ReVISION” – The Society for Arts, Chicago
“Materia del Deseo” at Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT. Mexico
“Time Interventions”, Kai Hilgemann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Xawery Wolski”, Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. (brochure)

2011
“Globos”, site-specific installation at Museo Anahuacalli Diego Rivera, Mexico City.
“Thoughts, Meditations, Acts” at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL.
“Graphics, Sculpture and Installation” at Espacio Escultorico La telaraña, Oaxaca,
At Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca IAGO, and at Bodega Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico. (cat.)
“Blysk” at Bochenska Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
“Xawery Wolski – Portrait” at Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala, Poland.
“Un cielo para cada uno”, Installation at Museo de Textiles de Oaxaca, Mexico.
Alejandro Sales Gallery, Zona MACO Art Fair, Mexico City. (cat.)

2010
“Show me the garden…” Galeria Caja Blanca, Mexico City.
“Globos”, Art New Media Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
“W Pustke Nieba”, Juan Soriano Foundation, Warsaw, Poland. (cat.)
“MROK, Nobody knows of what a body is capable of”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
“Más Allá”, five monumental sculptures at Arcos Bosques, Mexico City.
Zona MACO Art Fair,Galeria Alejandro Sales, Mexico City. (cat)
“Morfologías”, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain.

2009
“Into an Empty Sky”, Jim Thompson Arts Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
Itinerant exhibition wich had travelled to Khon Kaen University Museum, Chiang Mai University Museum, Thailand, National Gallery of Indonesia , Jakarta, Indonesia. (cat.) Zona MACO Art Fair, Galeria Alejandro Sales. Mexico City. (cat.)

2008
“Nucleus”, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL

2007
“Tattoos” Galleria Pokaz, Warsaw, Poland.(brochure) Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico.

2006
“Time, Here and There” Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. (cat)
“Xawery Wolski: recent sculpture” Long House Reserve, Long Island, NY.(brochure)

2005
Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil
“Koral Zalobny”, Stefan Szydlowski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Emma Molina Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico.(cat.)

2004
“Many Drawings”, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
“Polvo/Proch”, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL.
“Humus”, Jorge Shirley Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
“Polvo/Proch”, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.

2003
“Humus”, Arthobler Gallery, Porto, Portugal (cat.)
“Humus”, Stefan Szydlowski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
“Tattoo”, Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
“Polvo/Proch”, Arts Centre, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
“Polvo/Proch”, Art Museum Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (cat.)
“Polvo/Proch”, Museum of Contemporary Art MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico (cat.)

2002
“Polvo/Proch”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (cat.)
“Luz, Cuerpo, Materia”, Galeria Arte Contemporaneo, Puebla, Mexico (cat.)
Galeria María Martín Madrid, Spain
“Humano”, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico.

2001
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, USA
“Humano”, OMR Gallery, Mexico D.F.

2000
Maria Martin Gallery, FIAC Art Fair, Paris (cat.)
Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

1999
Galeria María Martín, Madrid, Spain

1998
Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
Der Brucke Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (cat.)
Galeria OMR, Mexico City (brochure)

1996
Museo De la Nacion, Lima, Peru (cat.)
Galeria Forum, Lima, Peru
“Humus”, Galeria OMR, Mexico DF, Mexico (brochure)

1994
Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru
“Formy”, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)

1992
Galerie Caroline Serrero, Marseille, France. (brochure)

1991
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2019
“Escultura de la Tierra, Cerámica Mexicana”, Cultural Complex Los Pinos, CDMX, Mexico
“Voces de la Tierra, Lenguas Indígenas”, MUNAL, CDMX
“ARTE/SANO % ARTISTAS 5.0”, Museum Arocena, Torreón, Coahuila, México
“Recreaciones”, Museum of Modern Art, CDMX, México, april-nov 2019
“Galaxias”, Museum of Modern Art, CDMX, México, nov 2018 – abr 2019
“ARTE/SANO % ARTISTAS 5.0”, Museo Pape, Monclova, Coahuila, México

2018
“Día Cero”, FIAC, International Festival of Contemporary Art, León, México
“Circle/Squared”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
“ARTE/SANO % ARTISTAS 5.0, Caja Real Centro Cultural, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
“Museum Collection”, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

2017
“ARTE/SANO % ARTISTAS 5.0”, Museo de Arte Popular, CDMX, Nov 2017-Feb 2018
“Art Miami”, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
“Art Miami”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
“Tangled! Fiber Art Now”, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, EUA
“Analogías Escultóricas”, Colección Museo de Arte Moderno, CDMX, México
“Tane”, Zona Maco, CDMX

2016
“The Ambiguous Lightness of Being”, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA (cat)

2015
“The Art Miami Pavillion”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Booth A-36, Miami, Florida, EUA
“START Art Fair “, Elena Shchukina Gallery, London, England
“Mexican Ceramics Exhibition” , Northern Clay Center, Minnesotta , USA
“Arte Objeto .925”, Instituto Cultural Cabañas

2014
“Ex – votos d´artistes contemporains ”, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France
“Art Miami”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami, Florida
“70 Aniversario TANE”, Museo Franz Mayer, CDMX

2013
Exhibition of the artwork “Mercury” at Arte Fiera 2013, International Art Fair of Contemporany Art, Bologna, Italy.
“Mercurios”, Arte 13 London. England.
14th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
“Geometrismo escultórico mexicano”, Galeria Arte Hoy, Mexico D.F.

2012
“Arte Sano entre Artistas 2.0” Museo de Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Centro Cultural Caja Real, de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Galeria del Parque Cultural Reynosa. Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Museo de Arte Popular, MAP, Mexico, D.F.
“Cinco de Mayo de 1862” Group show Project Uriarte Talavera, Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City (May-June, 2012)

2011
“Arte Sano entre Artistas 2.0” Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico D.F. (cat)
“ Here, Now, Then, There and Here again…”, Religare Art Center, Nueva Delhi, India
“Aire” VI International Bienal of Contemporary Art Textile – World Textile Art, Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Mexico City. (May)
“Rojo”, Omar Alonso Gallery, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

2010
“Cimbra: formas especulativas y armados metafísicos”, Museo de Arte Moderno MAM, Mexico City.
“W przestrzeni”, Opole, Poland (cat.)

2009
“Hecho en Casa”, Museum of Modern Art MAM, Mexico City.
“Revisons nos classiques. La terre dans l’art contemporain” Chapelle des pénitents noirs, Aubagne, France.

2008
“Lightness and roughness of the line,” Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
“Looky See”, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
MACO Arte Contemporáneo Mexico D.F., Alejandro Sales Gallery [cat.]

2007
“Espai2nou2”, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
“Microwave Five”, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY. (cat.)

2006
“Poza”, Real Art Ways. Hartford, Connecticut, NE

2004
“Ground, Field, Surface”, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.
“Pink”, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.

2003
“White Paintings”, Stefan Szydlowski Galllery, Warsaw, Poland.
“Une culture d’entreprise”, Musee des Tapisseries. Aix-en-Provence, France.

2002
“Benefit Selections Exhibition”, 25th Anniversary The Drawing Center, New York.
“Systems, Order, Nature”, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery”, Houston, TX.
“Time, Stone, Clay”, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, MUCA, Mexico.
“Círculos”, Galeria María Martín, Madrid, Spain

2001
“Escultura Mexicana de la Academia a la Instalación”, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (cat.)
“Bookish Projects”, Devin Borden & Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.
“Papeles”, Galeria María Martín, Madrid, Spain

2000
“Inapropiadamente dibujo”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (brochure)
“Caleidoscopio: Lenguajes contemporáneos”, Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, Mexico City

1999
“En Blanco”, Galeria Maria Martin, Madrid, Spain
“Tierra. identidades dispersas”, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes MUCA, Mexico City (cat.)
Fifth Salon Arte Bancomer, Mexico City cat.)
Museo José Luis Cuevas, Festival del Centro Historico, Mexico City.

1998
“Hiper”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (brochure)
“Forjar Espacios, La escultura forjada en el siglo XX”, CAAM, Canary Islands,
IVAM, Valencia, Spain, Musee des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelles, Calais, France
“Spring Selections”, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (brochure)
“Escultures finimilenaristas”, Museo de Arte Moderno, MAM, Mexico City (cat.)
Aline Vidal Gallery, Paris, France
Fourth Salon Arte Bancomer, Mexico City (cat.)

1997
“Sous le manteau”, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France (cat.)

1996
Galeria OMR, Mexico City (brochure) Museo de Osma, Lima, Peru

1995
‘Mostra da Gravura’, Museo Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil (cat.)

1994
Bugdahn und Kaimer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

1993
“Devant le future”, Tae-jon Exposition, South Korea (cat.)
“Ars Erotica”, Narodowe Museum, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)

1992
“Collection Muzeum Sztuki 1931- 1992”, Saint Pierre Museum, Lyon, France (cat.)
ELAC, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France.

1991
“Parcours Prives”, Paris, France
“Magowie I Mistycy”, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
“Jestesmy”, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)

1990
“Abbatoirs” , Marseille, France.
FRAC, Fonds Regional d’Arts Contemporain, Marseille, France (acquisition)
“Construction in Process”, Lodz, Poland

AWARDS
2008
Grant from Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA

2006
Critic Prize Pokaz for the best exhibition of the year, Warsaw, Poland

2000
Croix d’Argent pour le Merite et Devouement Francais au titre des Arts.

1998
Special Mention, Prix Lacouriere, Biblioteque Nationale de France, Paris

1996
‘L’envers des Villes’, AFAA Scholarship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Caisse des Depots, France

1994
Grant for an Individual project, AFAA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

1992
Grant for an individual project, FIACRE, Ministry of Cultureat Paris, France

1991
‘Sculpture Prize’ at the Bienale de Nice, France
Grant from Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
Grant for an individual exhibition, Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris, France

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017
Monumental sculpture “Infinito” at Foro Boca, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México
Monumental sculpture for Cross Border Xpress, San Diego, California, USA.

2016
Residence at Lux Art Institute, California, USA.

2013
Designed pieces in silver for TANE , Mexico

2012
Residence at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Vermont, USA.
Residence at PVArt Studio Aguacate, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Colección Arte Objeto TANE, “Varsovia”, Mexico.
“Lighten the Darknes” by Edward Hirsch . Conference in Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2011
Residence at Religare Art Programme, New Delhi, India.

2008/09
Residence at Jim Thompson Art Center, Bankgok, Thailand.
“Chain”. Monumental sculpture commissioned by the “Epic Hotel”, Miami.

2005
Monumental sculpture for Art Walk, Miami One, Residential Compound, Miami, FL

2003
Monumental Sculpture for Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico.

1996
“Estelas”. Public Sculpture for Mexico City, sponsored by AFAA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Caisse des Depots, Mexico City.

1994
‘Pulmones de Barranco’. Site-specific Sculpture for the City of Lima, Peru sponsored by AFAA, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1993
‘Maison en terre’. Public Sculpture for the Taejon Expo, South Korea.

1990
Drawing professor, School of Fine Arts, Aix-en-Province, France.

1985-87
Works in marble, Carrara, Italy.

COLLECTIONS
– Muzeum Narodowe, Varsovia, Polonia
– Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Polonia
– FNAC, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
– FRAC, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Alpes Province, Cote d’Azur, France
– National Library of France, Paris
– Worldbank Art Program, Washington, DC
– Modena Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
– Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
– Museo de Arte Moderno MAM, México D.F.
– Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca MACO, México
– Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, México
– Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS)
– Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Puebla, Mexico
– Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, México
– University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
– Jumex Foundation, Mexico
– FEMSA Collection, Monterrey, México
– Particular collections in: Poland, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
– “Xawery Wolski, Atelier”, Polswiss Art, 2018
– “Xawery Wolski, brochure”, Galeria Omar Alonso, Mexico, 2011.
– Xawery Wolski: W Puske Nieba, brochure. Juan Soriano & Marek Keller Foundation / Mexican Embassy in Poland, and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mexico.
Warsaw, 2009
– Into and Empty Sky, Xawery Wolski, catalogue. The James H.W. Thompson Foundation The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
2009 Texts: Foreword by Arturo Puente; ‘Reiterations: Openess and Material Culture’ by David The;
– ‘A conversation with Xawery Wolski’ by Gridthiya Gaweewong, 2008
– Xawery Wolski: Time, Here and There, catalogue. Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw 2006
– Texts: Foreword by Agnieszka Morawinska; ‘The Inflections of time’ by Stefan Szydlowski; ‘Xawery Wolski:
Interstices of Time and Space’ by Edward J. Sullivan;
– ‘Trayectory of Xawery Wolski’s Drawings’by by Marek Bartelik;
– ‘The espace between (in time): some notes to approach Xawery Wolski’s work’ by Octavio Zaya,
– Xawery Wolski, published by UBS and Landucci Editors, Mexico City, 2005.
– ‘Nature of the work: Accumulation of a great number of chains in an enclosed space’ by Xawery Wolski, 1990
– ‘’Sculptures by Xawery Wolski’ by Serge Faucheraeau, Paris, 1992
– Transcript of conference presented at the Lyon’s space of Contemporary Art (ELAC), Lyon
– Texts , Untitled, Xawery Wolski, 1990
– ‘Introduction for the cave projects’ by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘Space-Impression’ by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘Observatorium I’, Artists Museum Lodz, by Xawery Wolski 1992
– ‘Observatorium II’ (Cave) by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘ Projection’ by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘The Golden Pavillion’ by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘The ancestor’s room’ by Xawery Wolski, 1993
– ‘Corridor-Tunnel, Earth Passage’ by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘The clay square’ (Homage to Malevitch) by Xawery Wolski,Paris, 1993
– ‘Earth House’ by Xawery Wolski, Paris, 1993
– ‘Cave!’ by Serge Fauchereau, Paris 1996
– ‘Xawery Wolski: Memory of Clay’ by Antonio Zaya, Platla d’Aro, 2004
– ‘Love Letter’ by Nadiejda Maldestam, 1938
– ‘Fragments and seeds of a body of earth: some thoughts on Xawery Wolski’s work’ by Fernando Castro Flores, Madrid, 2003
– ‘Report on the Urban project for Mexico City: The other sites of cities’ by Xawery Wolski, 1997, Mexico
– Humus, Arthobler Gallery and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mexico. Porto, Portugal, Nov. 2003.
Texts: ‘El Humus’ by Jaime Moreno Villareal y Miguel Cervantes.
– Tattoo, brochure. Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2003.
– Texts: by Elzbieta Dzikowska
– Polvo/Proch, catalogue. Conaculta, INBA; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil; Centro de las Artes, Conarte; Museo de Arte de Zapopan;
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca; Amigos del Museo, A.C. Mexico, 2002 – 2003.
– Textos: ‘Fragments and Seeds of the body of the earth: Considerations about the work of Xawery Wolski’ by Fernando Castro Flores;
‘El pajaro transparente’ by Mario Bellatin; ‘Polvo/Proch’, Sylvia Navarrete.
– Polvo/Proch Xawery Wolski, dossier. Conaculta, INBA., Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Galeria O.M.R., Mexico, 2002.
– Text: Sylvia Navarrete.
– Luz, Cuerpo, Materia, Xawery Wolski, catalogue. Secretaria de Cultura Puebla y Conaculta. Mexico, 2002.
– Texts: ‘The transparent matter, Xawery Wolski’ by Pedro Ángel Palou García; ‘. ‘Earth that talks’, by Antonio Zaya.
– Tattoo, catalogue. Bancomer Foundation and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Mexico 2002.
– Text: Osvaldo Sánchez.
– El Arte que viene / The Art to come. Edited by Paco Barragan. Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid, Spain.
– Xawery Wolski, catalogue. Galeria Emma Molina. Monterrey, 2000.
– Text: Antonio Zaya.
– Xawery Wolski. Museo Rufino Tamayo/Americo Arte Editores, Landucci Editors. Milano 1999.
– Texts: by Elena Poniatowska, Miguel Cervantes and Jaime Moreno Villarreal.
– Forging Space: 20th Century Wrought Iron Sculpture, catalogue. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Canarias Islands, Spain. IVAM, Valencia, Spain y
Museè des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France 1999.
– Text: Serge Fauchereau.
– El Humus, catalogue. Der Brucke Editors, Buenos Aires, 1998
– Texts: by Jaime Moreno Villareal and Miguel Cervantes
– Selections Spring ’98’, brochure. The Drawing Center, New York, 1998
– Text: Xawery Wolski
– Under the coat, catalogue. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 1997
– Text: Xawery Wolski
– Light, Body, Matter, catalogue. Museo de la Nación, Lima, Peru, 1996
– Texts: by Paulo Herkenhoff, Caroline Smulders and Jorge Villacorta Chávez.
– Exhibit of Etchings, catalogue. Museo Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brasil, 1995
– Text: Xawery Wolski
– Projects from Peru, catalogue. Centro Cultural Chávez de la Rosa. Arequipa, Peru, 1995
– Text: Jorge Villacorta Chávez
– Forms, catalogue. Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 1994
– Text: Interview with Elzbieta Dzikowska,
– Future lies ahead, catalogue. Seoul Museum, South Korea, Institute des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastiques, Paris, 1993.
– Text: Xawery Wolski.
– Sculptures by Xawery Wolski, brochure. Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1992
– Text: Serge Fauchereau.
– Museum Sztuki, Lodz 1931- 1992 Collection- Documentation- Actualite, catalogue. Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon et ELAC, Lyon, France.
– Text: Interview with Maria Morzuch,
– Parcours Prives’, catalogue, Parcours Prives- Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Paris, France, 1991
– Text: Elvan Zabunyan.
– Xawery Wolski, brochure. Galerie Caroline Serrero, Marselle, France, 1991
– Text: Caroline Smulders. – — El Ensamblaje Escultórico: análisis y tipologías objetuales del Arte Contemporáneo Mexicano, 2012
– Pablo Estévez Kubli, Mexico , 2013
– Escultura Mexicana, De la Academia a la Instalación. Conaculta-INBA – Uriarte talavera contemporánea 5 de mayo, catalogue. Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, 2012.
– Bozena Kowalska, “Twórcy-postawy: artysci mojej galerii”, Publisher Wydawn Literackie, 1981

ARTICLES (SELECTION)
2019
– “Colección Sin Límites”, Arte Al Límite, Chile
– “Arte Contemporáneo 2019”, Grupo de los 16, CDMX, México
– “Céramique, 90 artistes contemporains”, Pyramid Editions, Paris, France
– Polityka “Salon Polityki”, “Coming back to the Roots”, Special Edition, Warsaw, Poland
– Interior Design Magazine, “A concrete townhouse in Mexico City marks Rick Joy’s first ground up urban building”, june 2019
– “Infinite Links”, High Level Magazine, Poland, sept 2019

2018
– Arte al Límite, “Times Sequences expressed through bronze”, january
– Magazine Siempre, “After the Martial Law in Poland nobody cared about my country”, number 3407 year LXV, Mexico City
– Magazine Protocolo, “Beyond the Organic and Geometric”, april

Xawery Wolski: más allá de lo orgánico y lo geométrico


– Ceramics, Art + Perception, #107, “Mexico, Out of the Labyrinth”, Cremorne, Australia

2016
– Lux Art Insitute presents: Xawery Wolski, The San Diego Union Tribune, november, San Diego, CA, USA

2014
– Arte al Límite #67, Julio, Chile.

2013
– James Eischen, “Xawery Wolski” El Cubo. ArtForum, Enero-Febrero, 2013, USA
– “La Revista”, Mexico, 2013

2012
– Oscar Cid, “Retiran Cadenas del Museo Tamayo”, Periódico Reforma, Junio, 2012, Mexico.
– Irina Leyva, “Xawery Wolski, solo show” ArtNexus, Marzo-Mayo, 2012, USA

2011
– Arte al Límite, Diciembre, Chile.
– Lukasz Kropiowski, “O przestrzeni”, Revista Online Obieg, Marzo, 2011,

2010
– Yazmin Cruz, “Arte al paso”, El Sol de Mexico, May 19, 2010.
– Sonia Avila, “Wolski une su obra con cadenas”, El Excelsior, May 14, 2010.
– Xochitl Aguirre, “Podobni w glebi”, Gazeta Antykwaryczna, No 9, Septiembre, 2010. Polonia.

2009
Carla Bianpoen, “Exploring new configurations in ceramics”, The Jakarta Post, October 1st 2009 Khetsirin Pholdhampalit, “How everuthing is linked”,
Daily Xpress, Bangkok, January 29, 2009.

2008
– Blanca González Rosas, “Arte, Mercado, Instituciones”, Proceso 1643, Mexico April 2008

2007
– Marek Bartelik. “Xawery Wolski, Fragmeneted Trajectory” American Ceramics #152, New York, Nov. 2007.

2006
– Joanna Muller. “Signs drawn by time”. Exhibition in Zacheta, Dziennik. Warsaw, Oct 04, 2006.
– Agnieszka Kowalska.’White clouds on white sky’. Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Sept. 19, 2006
– Monika Kuc. ‘Reality in white’. Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw, Sept. 19, 2006
– Aimee Fitzpatrick Martin. ‘Sculptor Xawery Wolski seeks truth finds miracles’. Vox Magazine, Long Island, Summer 2006.
– Joan Baum. ‘In the gallery’. The Independent, Traveler watch, New York, 2006

2005
– Stefan Szydlowski. ‘About Sculptures, Travels, Could be archeology?’. Exit Magazine. New art in Poland. #3, 2005
– Antonio Zaya. ‘Xawery Wolski. Earth that talks’. Revista ‘Cuarta Pared’, Feb-April, 2005/ 2004
– Roberta Smith. ‘Art in Review: Ground-Field-Surface’. The New York Times, Aug. 13th, 2004
– The New Yorker. ‘Goings on About Town:Galleries-Chelsea’, Aug. 2, 2004
– Fernando Partida. ‘Contemporary Oasis in a traditional religious villa’, Casas y Gente, Sept.

2004
– Holly Myers. ‘Nature of Universal Truths is dusted off and explored’. Xawery Wolski at the Ben Maltz Gallery. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, 28 Jan.. 2004
– Dawn Page. ‘It comes from dust’. ‘La opinion’, Los Angeles, 16 Jan. 2004.

2003
– Mitchell Owens. ‘Sinking roots in a rented space’. The New York Times. New York, 5 June

2003
– Victor Ortiz. ‘Three exhibitiosn and good news in MAZ’. Cultura. Mexico Feb. 18th, 2003
– Jorge Luis Plata. ‘Between terracotta and paper’. Oaxaca, April 30th, 2003
– Xochitl Martinez. ‘Contemporany Art’. Visiones, Guadalajara, April 2003
– Victor Manuel Pazarin. ‘Wolski’s dust in MAZ’. Ayuntamiento de Zapopan, Guadalajara, March 4th, 2003
– Aaron Sanchez. ‘Light, Body, Earth’. El Sol de Puebla, Mexico, Jan. 25, 2003
– Amelia Dominguez. ‘Xawery Wolski transforms terracotta in contemporary art in ‘Light, Body, Matter’. La Jornada, Mexico, January 24th, 2003.

2002
– Julieta Riveroll. ‘Evoquing with dust the return to origins’. Reforma. Mexico, July 1st. 2002
– Omar Sanchez. ‘The pole Xawery Wolski exhibits ‘Dust’. El Sol. Mexico June 26th, 2002
– Abraham Vazquez. ‘Wolski converts dust… into art’. El Porvenir. Mexico Nov. 28th, 2002
– Adriana Moncada. ‘Memory and fragility mix at dust’. Uno mas uno. Mexico, June 27th 2002
– Andres Oriard. ‘Dust’. El Heraldo. Mexico, June 30th 2002
– Martin Casillas. ‘Alternative Art’. El Financiero. Mexico, June 26th, 2002
– Marcela Corral. ‘Remiends us that dust we are.’ El Norte. Mexico Nov. 28, 2002
– Miguel Muniz. ‘Sculpture speaks by itself in Dust’. Milenio. Mexico, Nov, 28th, 2002
– Rosario Pinelo. ‘Earthy duality ’. Tiempo libre. Mexico July 26th, 2002
– Arte y Parte. ‘Xawery Wolski’, #41, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2002, pag. 126
– Maria Garcia Yelo. ‘Xawery Wolski’. Blanco y Negro Cultural, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 30th, 2002, pag. 30
– Elena Vozmediano. ‘Silent Wolski’. El Cultural, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 21st, 2002, pag. 28
– Ramon Almela. ‘ Xawery Wolski, bodily dialogue with earth’, www.criticarte.com, Madrid, Spain.

2001
– Antonio Zaya. Xawery Wolski. A project for Atlantica. Atlantica No. 28, Spain, Winter 2001, pag. 68-75
– Eugenio Espinoza. Xawery Wolski. Diana Lowenstein Gallery. Art Nexus No. 41, Colombia, 2001, pag. 117-118
– Elisabeth Malkin. Xawery Wolski. Artnews, December 2001, pag. 168

2000
– Lourdes Botello.’ Xawery Wolski and Milagros de la Torre, moving testimony of man’s passage’. Paula. Mexico, Nov. 2000, pags. 134-140
– Bertha Wario. ‘Evoques the infinity of abstraction’. Periodico El Norte. Monterrey, April, 2000
– Ernesto Sosa. ‘Inappropriately Drawing’. Art Nexus, No. 36. Colombia. Mayo-Junio, 2000. pag. 122-124
– Francisca Rivero Lake. ‘Special Forms and materials’. Xawery Wolski. Revista Celular No. 114. Mexico, D. F. March, 2000. pag. 84-87
– Jose A. Montero. ‘The polish artist opens in Abrantes organic sculpture’. La Gaceta. Salamanca, Spain, February 23rd, 2000
– Jose F. Merino. ‘The polish artist opens in Abrantes organic sculpture. El Adelanto. Salamanca, Spain, February 23rd., 2000
– Marie-Cecile Miessner. ‘Nouvelles de l’Estampe’ No.169. Paris, March – April 2000

1999
– Fernando Castro Flores. ‘Xawery Wolski’, ABC Cultural. Spain, Nov. 20th, 1999. pag. 37-42
– Fernando Huichi. ‘The organic analogies of Wolski’. El Pais. Spain, Nov. 13th, 1999. pag. 18
– Fernando Huichi. ‘Bodies of pure light’. El País. Spain, Sept., 1999
– Cynthia Palacios Goya. ‘Xawery Wolski donates sculpture ‘Chains’ will be exposed in Tamayo Museum’. El Universal. Mexico, D. F. June 19th, 1999. pag. 3
– Alfonso de Neuvillate. Casas y Gente. ‘Xawery Wolski. ‘Humos, Detritus’. Casas y Gente.Mexico, 1999. pag. 18

1998
– Victoria Verlichak. ‘Terracota and stone’. Dec., 1998
– Ana María Battistozzi. ‘Written with the body’. Clarin. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec., 1998.
– Jorge López Anaya. ‘Self portraits and arquetypes’. La Nación. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec., 1998.
– Fabian Lebenglik. ‘Earth molded’. Página 12. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec., 1998.
– Eva Grinstein. ‘A delicate universe of images’. El Cronista. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 25th, 1998.
– Berenice González. ‘The clay traces of Xawery Wolski’. Harper’s Bazaar. Mexico, July, 1998.
– Leticia Sánchez. ‘Wolski proposes visual repetition’. Reforma. Mexico, D. F. June 22th, 1998.
– Virginia Bautista. ‘Proposing new aesthetic forms to the spectator’. Reforma. Mexico, Dec. 15th. 1998.

1997
– Adriana Moncada. ‘Xawery Wolski inaugurated sculpted space dedicated to street children’. Uno más uno. Mexico, D. F. May 2nd., 1997. pag. 24
– Ana Lilia Rojas Cano. ‘Xawery Wolski will create two sculptures’. El Día. Mexico, D. F. March 24th, 1997. pag. 24

1996
– Cynthia Palacios Goya. ‘Xawery Wolski, exhibits at OMR Galleryt. Sculpture with pre columbian inheritance”. El Nacional. Mexico, D. F. 10 Dec. 10th, 1996. pag. 43
– Adriana Moncada. ‘ I work with clay because its a metrial that goes with my temperament’. Uno más uno. Mexico, D. F. Nov. 22nd, 1996. pag. 26
– Osvaldo Sánchez. ‘Orphan gestures’. Reforma. Mexico, D. F. Nov. 13th, 1996. pag. 3C
– Arturo Mendoza Mociño. ‘Unites the past with contemporary art’. Reforma. Mexico, D. F. Nov. 5th, 1996. pag. 4C
– Merry McMasters. ‘The polish artist exposes in OMR Gallery’ . La Jornada. Nov. 8th, 1996. pag. 26
– Enrique Planas. ‘Earth cult’. El Sol. May 29th, 1996. pag. 6B
– Élida Román. ‘Félix Oliva & Xawery Wolski expose in double’ . El Comercio. Peru. May 26th, 1996. pag. C3
– ‘Wolski and the sculpting matter’. Diario de la Reública. Peru. May 22nd, 1996.
– ‘Roads that suggest introspection’. Cultural. Peru. May 21st, 1996. pag. C6
– ‘The crosses of Gimenez and the light of Wolski’. Cultural. Peru. May 14th, 1996.
– ‘Stone and Life. Sculptures of Xawery Wolski in the Museo de la Nación’. Caretas. Peru. May 9, 1996.

1994
– ‘Pole exposes works made in Lima’. El Comercio. Lima, Peru. May 29th, 1994.
– Luis Lama. ‘Xawery Wolski shows work in terracota’. Caretas. Lima, Peru. May 18th, 1994.
– ‘Sculptures of Xawery Wolski’. Expreso. Peru. May 6th, 1994.

1993
– George Melrod. ‘Xawery Wolski’. Art News. U.S.A., January, 1993. pag. 137-138

1992
– Ami Barak. ‘Xawery Wolski’, Galerie Philippe Boulakia. Art Press. France, Jan., 1992.
– Michelle Cone. ‘France in Review’. Arts Magazine. U.S.A., January 1992
– Peter Herbstreuth. Ein Flirt mil der Ungeliebten. Feuilleton. Germany.
– M.B. ‘It was a time in the East’. Beaux Arts Magazine, France, July 1992.



For we have always made art from the Earth. By heightening this intimacy with organic material itself, the artist participates in a shamanic rite, both honoring the source and enlightening it with invention.

Growing up in Poland during the Communist Party’s occupation, artist Xawery Wolski inherited an atmosphere of both regression and rebellion. Not until the death of Stalin in 1953 did political freedom give artists more opportunity to express dissent. The strongest influence however in Xawery’s formative years was with his father, who did scientific research in the cross pollination of plants for the Polish government. This brought Xawery, a city boy, into nature, where he could observe the natural environment first hand. This education no doubt contributed to his love of seeds and fibers and the products of the natural world, which he used later as a medium for his art. Still, for Xawery Poland was too isolated, and he left in 1982 to study in Paris, then later in New York.

From his restricted life under Communist rule in Poland, Xawery has became dedicated to the pursuit of freedom, especially for the artist. “Knowing that we are all alike…we have a desire for freedom, happiness…. we fear disease, bad luck, death…and finally, no matter which cultural, social or moral patterns we know, we look for communication.”

Xawery’s predecessor’s in minimal sculpture, Brancusi, Judd, Morris, to name a few, inform the art he creates with the simplest organic materials: seeds, beans, rope, clay, shells, stone. Even when he deviates to working with bronze, he prefers to conceal the underlying metal under a patina of matte white, abstracting it into a prime, pristine posture, as if exhumed from a dream or a distant past.

His work with seeds illustrates the continuum of form and of life. A seed contains all that its maturity will be: its birth, death, and its return to life. The use of seeds and other organic material for Xawery not only is a homage to nature but a way to connect with the metaphor of continuation, cycles of earth’s history.

In Xawery’s work there is a sense of the exhumed fossil, the basic skeletal structure of nature: bone, shells, cocoons, stone. These he elevates into icons or esthetic networks, the connectivity he deems so essential to life. He also makes very large ritual necklaces and gowns, made from fish bone, wire, bean. These are hung on walls like museum displays of a past civilization. If worn, these ceremonial garments would connect the wearer or initiate to the forms of nature. Xawery also is fascinated by drops of water, and will draw hundreds of water drops with meticulous repetition, again connecting the network of living matter on paper.

In his studio, there is a wonderful wall sculpture of an enormous dense black mound, called “Melancholia,” an abstraction of the curve, height, and descent of a mountain form, constructed of thin polymer that hovers between drawing and sculpture. Xawery’s concern is always with reducing his subject to its essential matrix, but not mathematically as much as sensually. Often he does not complete a woman’s figure, but leaves her essential form floating as a suggestion. He avoids the blatant realism of the figurative: a part can signify the whole.

The large chain link sculptures are another demonstration of connectivity and communication for Xawery. Fired from terra cotta they are painted and burnished to an immaculate white matte. Reminiscent of Claus Oldenburg’s gigantic renderings of common house objects like light switches, but now seamless classical icons, they symbolize the inseparable link of ideas and their strength. They are not only large, but give an illusion of weightlessness as they hang from ceilings or extrude from walls.

Xawery has exhibited his work in countries throughout the world. He has been awarded residencies in Asia, South America, Mexico, The United States, and Europe. As he travels, he continues to collect the natural products of each country as inspiration for his prolific art. Whatever is born of the earth, sea, wind, or even the insect world, he will emphasize its inherent design. In one large hanging piece he tightly pasted together pure silk abandoned cocoons to form a massive wall. It becomes a startling presence by displaying its basic fibrous architecture. He will also humorously set apart a few exaggerated water drops of terra cotta, coated with a platinum patina, to ripple freely down a wall, or small links of white chain that lie about like found objects. Freedom to express the simplest forms, the warp and woof of his sensibility, makes Xawery’s art seem the most ancient of crafts elevated to the freedom of modern ideas.

Edwin Treitler,
March 2012.