Edward Lipski
Edward Lipski

The body of work by Edward Lipski is characterized by a paradoxical nature: he plays a game with the mechanism of disgust and desire, attraction and repulsion, but also with contradictions such as life and death, violence and silence, blindness and clarity, …

His sculptures consist of images of everyday things, also images from our childhood: a rabbit, a puppy, a bird, a girl,… The sculptures are not shocking or sensational, even when they depict mutilated and deformed beings covered with real skins, feathers, or hairs, … In a perfectionist manner, human and animal body shapes are represented. The use of feathers, hair, leather, and makeup contributes to the realistic soft appearance of the sculptures. The viewer gets a first impression of dismay that immediately turns into an ambiguous experience of attraction and repulsion. Léon Lemahieu wrote about this in 1999 that Lipski’s body of work should be approached with the “retinuto” and “ritardando” of the tango.