Mariusz Dydo

In the years 1994-1999 he attended PLSP im. Artur Grottger in Tarnów and graduated from the Artistic Furniture Department. In 2004 he graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. Jan Matejko in the sculpture studio of Jerzy Nowakowski.

In the years 1997-2003 he participated in the activities of Jacek Kucaba’s Original Art Group – Ruchome Święto. In 2007, he opened his own sculpture and painting studio, where he carried out many contract orders for private individuals, film, advertising, museums and churches.

In his work, he combines sculpture with design. He is inspired by the classical form and iconography of pop culture. It reaches for inspiration from childhood. He finds in them a link between design and the original belief in animism. A link between the culture of the Palaeolithic and hypermarket hunters.

1999-2004 Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow

He is the author of:
- sculptural decoration, design and execution of altar furniture for the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the Rosary Road complex in Hlinik nad Hronom, Slovakia (2011-2013);
- figurines of a raven and a dragon for the Moving Theater with Cracovian Tales designed by Avishai Hadari, Historical Museum of the City of Cracow under the slab of the Cracow Market Square (2012);
- six figures and woodcarving ornaments for the Altar of the Most Holy Sacrament (Altar of the Fatherland) in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw (2009-2012 - together with Zbigniew Blajerski);
- a five-meter high, perverse definition of freedom in the shape of a lipstick wrapped in gold, "Freedom Premium," alias "Sweet as Candy," Ronald Reagan Seaside Park in Gdansk (2015).
And many other realizations in public space for private investors-sepulchral sculpture.
Major exhibitions:
2005 - Woman-Cosmos, sculpture in the garden of the Archaeological Museum in Cracow; www.cykl...dy, ŚOK Gallery, Lamelli, Cracow;

2008 - In Fire Created...Cracow Ceramics after 1945, National Museum in Cracow;

2010 - Chopin, a dialogue of spaces, Cracow Philharmonic;
2011 My Diplomates and I, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Prof. Jerzy Nowakowski's creative work. P...