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Nowa Biała is a village, part of the Nowy Targ Municipality, located in southern Poland, not far from the border with Slovakia and 70 km south of the regional capital Kraków
This village features an art environment that has an entrance that, as can be seen in the image above, is flanked by a large giraffe.
Life and works
This art environment, mainly filled with a variety of animals, was created by Wacław Rędziński, who was born in Nowa Biała in 1945.
As an adult, he would run a car repair shop in his hometown for forty years, retiring around 2010.
He then had plenty of time to pursue his hobby, which involved making concrete sculptures of primarily life-size animals, such as the giraffe displayed next to the entrance.
The collection of animals he made for the most part is displayed in the backyard of his house in Nowa Biala.
To give an idea, there are sculptures depicting an elephant, a camel, a wild boar, a horse, an owl, a crocodile…all shown life-size......
Rędziński made his creations from concrete and succeeded in working this material in such a way that, for example, animals with a hairy skin are also modelled as such.
Waclawn Rędziński is one of three non-professional artists featured in a film- and educational project launched in 2021 by Andrzej Kwasiborski and Radosław Łabarzewski, both based in Płock, which aims to raise awareness of the phenomenon of outsider art in Poland.
The project is supported by the Cultural and Art Centre Themerson in Płock, which now has a crocodile in front of its building, tdonated by Rędziński's art environment (see the article in newspaper Wyborcsa in the documentation).
Documentation
* Article (November 2021) on website Znalezienie
* Article (May 2024) in newspaper Wyborcsa, with the story of the crocodil
* Article (May 2024) on the website Znalezienie, also about the crocodil
Video
* Video (December 2023, YouTube, 7;33") by Znalezienie
Wacław Rędziński
Garden with mainly animal sculptures
Nowa Biała, region Lesser Poland, Poland
can partly be seen from the road
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