Paweł Wocial


Paweł Wocial is a Polish installation and object artist, sculptor, designer and scenographer. He graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland. In his artworks he concentrates on relations between form, structure, perception and consciousness. His work refers to the concept of design thinking: human ability to create in the mind different kinds of simulations resulting in relationships and perception of reality.

Career

Wocial's works have been presented among others at the Watou Art Festival in Belgium; Paris Fashion Week in France; the 2015 ; WUK Projektraum in Vienna, Austria; and in the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. His works have been exhibited in UK, Turkey, Austria, Netherlands, Ireland, accompanied by works of famous artists including Banksy, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marina Abramović, Tracey Emin, Erwin Wurm, Li Hui and Franz Ackermann. Wocial's works are in private collections in Austria, Germany, Poland and others.
His work Spirit of Ecstasy was realized with the support of the Art Stations Foundation of Grażyna Kulczyk.
In 2009 he moved to London, where he broadened the field of his activities with the art of design. Wocial began his cooperation with Dr J Milo Taylor, who was interested particularly in sound, his main focus of research and creative actions, and with Austrian artists Andreas Harrer and Leo Riegler. At the same time Wocial's installation Look at Me inspired Maciej Zień; the work became Zień's main motif in a fashion collection under this title.
Wocial has been living and working in Warsaw since 2012.

Works

Look at Me (new Capitoline Wolf)

Look at Me is a 2011 art installation by Paweł Wocial. The installation is tall and made of acrylic, polyester, fabric, jewelry, hair, plastic bottles and rubber teats. The form of the work refers to the Capitoline Wolf sculpture.
The installation by was presented at Paris Fashion Week in France, the Watou Art Festival in Belgium, and at Unit 24 Gallery in London, UK.
Look at Me was the inspiration for a collection by Polish fashion and interior designer Maciej Zień, who included Wocial’s work in the scenery of his fashion shows and reproduced images of the wolf on dresses and shirts.