This work is a striking example of environment that can be interpreted in the context of ecological crisis and concern for the planet. The piece comprised spatial and sculptural elements: tubes and wood-cutting discs suspended from the ceiling and actual tree trunks arranged below. Dobosz’s work also invoked the fourth dimension — time — with darkness and silence periodically interrupted by pulsating light and music inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen’s compositions.
Dobosz: ‘I conceived of oppositions: living–dead, nature–technology, light–darkness. I was searching for a way to show the force of destruction. Since the arrangement had to exist within an enclosed space, I introduced a musical background to add a fourth dimension. The idea that it unfolds over time, in a sequence of light and darkness, gives it universal meaning.’
Tadeusz Dobosz (b. 1937, Kraków) – sculptor, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1957–1963, under Jerzy Bandura). Author of small sculptural forms, medals, and monuments. He participated in key artistic symposia and open-air workshops of the 1960s and 1970s, including Złote Grono (Space and Expression, 1967), Orońsko, Poznań, and Wrocław. Co-founder of the National Sculptors’ Meetings in Zielona Góra.