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ODYSSEY by Robert Koenig
ODYSSEY consists of a crowd of 32 monumental wood figures , each 2.5m tall. Most of these male and female figures were carved in the village of Dominikowice in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in South East Poland between 1997 – 2002...
Robert Koenig – Discovered
It was the summer of 1848 by the river Zbrucz in Poland. The children first saw a hat above water and thought someone had drowned. What they found in fact was a stone figure which M. Potocki called “Swiatowid”. He sent it on a cart to Krakow...
Steve's Odyssey Absolute copy
Most of us, to some extent, remember the stories we were told as children – fragments of fictional tales designed to engender good behaviour, or simply fuel our imaginations. For Robert Koenig, growing up in the suburbs of Manchester, the stories were all too real – rich tales of his mother’s childhood in south-east Poland, full of community and characters, superseded as he grew older by the altogether darker narrative of her wartime removal to Germany, the hell of the labour camps and her eventual arrival in the UK...
ODYSSEY - Visitor's Comments
This is so gorgeous! Sad and stunning....it says so much. The music reflects the sadness and determination in the statues' faces, giving them life and a collective soul. Cold on the outside - bleeding on the inside - power in numbers. Powerful and haunting stuff...
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