Good is the enemy of better
Good is the enemy of better In this exhibition, I present primarily new forms made of steel. Steel is a material I grew up with. My father ran a company involved in the industrial production of steel machines. This entire industry, concentrated on Towarowa Street in Jasło, feels to me like a breath of emerging capitalism in Poland. When I think about that time, I see new housing blocks being built, steel cranes in the urban landscape, old prefab factories. I feel an atmosphere of hope and change that, as a child, I was only barely aware of. Goods from the West were flowing into Poland, the world was becoming colorful — we had pizza, Turbo chewing gum, Caro cigarettes and unfiltered Klubowe. This is how I now see the landscape of those years. In my father’s view, steel was a solid, durable, and trustworthy material. It seems that the rest of society shared this opinion as well. According to him, steel serves a purpose — it fulfills a function. It has no aesthetic value, but it does have properties: load resistance, elasticity, shrinkage, melting temperature. In his opinion, steel should be powder-coated — it should not be left raw,
