Monika Patuszyńska’s Work at the Spragnieni Piękna Auction

As part of this year’s edition of the Spragnieni Piękna project, light objects created by Marek Bimer were given to twelve artists for reinterpretation through artistic intervention. Monika Patuszyńska approached the CLOUD lamp as a form for creating a porcelain sculpture.

“The shape of the CLOUD lamp is so strong, perfect, and untouchable in its inner balance that any superficial interference seemed to me merely an attempt to strip it of its unshakable divinity. Instead, I decided to go deeper — to search for its internal tensions and allow the form to tell something about itself. CLOUD was cast in porcelain and subjected to free deformation during high-temperature firing. This gesture of relinquishing control (and, at the same time, reclaiming it) is key for me: it marks the moment when the form begins to speak in its own voice.

It turned out that CLOUD is quite pleased with its new self — joyfully exploring its boundaries in this new situation, even misbehaving a little, allowing itself somersaults and acrobatics. Especially now that it has become an object that cannot be placed ‘properly’ — it has no top or bottom, so the rigid rules of conduct no longer apply. I don’t know if materials have a need to emancipate themselves. If they do, I feel not like their creator but rather a companion to their material independence. Beauty? Only if we consider it a by-product of transformation” - Artist says.

The Spragnieni Piękna auction will take place on October 27, 2025, at the National Museum in Warsaw.

Objects can be bid on during the gala dinner or through Desa and Artinfo.