all images are screenshots from the video in the documentation
The image above shows a shelter located near the Brwilno Nature Reserve in Płock, a city in central Poland.
This shelter, established in 1963, has been funded by church funds. It has a capacity of 140 residents and it primarily housed adults with intellectual disabilities and people unable to work, who came from all regions of Poland.
In 1998, the facility was publicly funded, the province became the owner and the shelter was renamed as the Social House. It appears to exude a welcoming, positive atmosphere, with many activities focused on the well-being of its residents.
In conjunction with such a heart-whole approach the Social House also has a sculpture workshop, where pieces of pine and lime wood are waiting to be transformed into creative works.
Life and works
Wlodzimierz Roston is a resident of the shelter who frequently uses the workshop..
Born in Warsaw in 1953, he has lived in the social house since 1975.
In the image above, one likely can see him working in his own room, which is adorned with all sorts of art objects.
Roston began his artistic activities in the 1980s, working with great intensity. Most of his creations incorporate a variety of colors, from dark tones to vibrant colors, as can be seen in the images.
He not only created paintings to decorate the interior of his room at the shelter, but he also made a lot of wooden sculptures, some of which are incorporated into the chapel of the Social House and many others were added to its exterior fencing.
These wooden sculptures are finished in a variety of different colors, in the personal, artistic style that Roslan gradually developed and for which he became known, even outside Poland.
Several of the wooden creations are made on round poles, which were available in the workshop of the House or which Roston collected himself in its green surroundings.
Some of these decorated poles were used to decorate the fence outside the Social House.
Individual pieces from his artistic output are included in various public and private collections in Poland, France, and the Czech Republic.
Włodzimierz Rosłon is one of three outsider artists who was launched in a project in 2021 aimed at raising awareness of the phenomenon of outsider art in Poland, a project with public events organized by Andrzej Kwasiborski and Radosław Łabarzewski.
Another artist in this project is Wacław Rędziński, whose work has previously been featured in an article on this blog..
Documentation
* Article (October 2024) on Plock Weekly by Alina Szatkowska about the shelter, with a passage about Wlodzimierz Roston
Video
* Video ( YouTube , 6'49") subtitled in English, produced in 2021 and published on website Znalezienie
Włodzimierz Rosłon
Decorated interior and exterior
Brwilno, Plock Municipality, dept Mazowieckie, Poland
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