Lou Jaworski, EOS ONE, 2025

2025

Medium

Striato Olimpico marble intarsia

Dimensions

140 × 200 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155817

The works from the series “EOS” (2025) and “ZENIT” are inlaid stone works in which millennia-old grain patterns form precise geometric shapes. By searching for suitable stones, cutting, moving and inserting the inlays, he creates symbolic images that become visible through the shifting of the material. Jaworski thereby intervenes in the geological structure of the Striato Olimpico marble and adds a new order and symbolic language to it: the wheel as a sign of movement and technological progress, the circle as an image of the cosmic whole and constant change. The natural division of the marble, which runs in stripes across the stone, allows the eye to jump between the picture carrier and the picture, as in the “STRATOS” 2023/2024 series of works. In the new series of works, Jaworski dispenses with overlays using UV printing and works solely with the structure of the stone. In this way, the marble as a sculptural material not only becomes the image carrier, but also the image content. Jaworski deals intensively with mechanisms of perception and the definition of the concept of the image. Repetitions in the sense of a xero copy, a film frame or a digital image appear here again and again. The recessed forms in their strict geometry thus appear like digital layers laid over the surface, transforming the stone into a model-like landscape in which organic, grown structures meet the idea of construction and transformation. The stone itself becomes a hyle: a basic material that is both finished and unfinished, open to interpretation and new meanings. At the same time, Jaworski refers to material as a memory store - the stripes and patterns of the stone also tell of geological processes, of water, tranquility and time.