Igor Dobrowolski

SELECTED WORKS

Igor Dobrowolski

b. 1987 Poland




Through continuous attention and action on social issues and humanitarianism, the artist Igor Dobrowolski has developed a new series of works recently, using metal media and mirror treatment, carving on metal surfaces, and using mixed media and polyester which creates three-dimensional crystals. The sorrow and suffering in the past are sublimated into beautiful crystals. Through the characteristics of the metal and special treatment, the new series artwork is like the sun, shining brightly. The work is no longer just sorrow, but with a strong hope and power.


“It is very important for me to include, in all of my works a particle of hope, because I believe it’s going to be ‘better.’ Even after the greatest tragedies.” - Igor Dobrowolski


Dobrowolski’s work has been exhibited in Miami, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Berlin, Rzeszów and London and can be found in the private collections of numerous celebrities including Channing Tatum, Gigi Hadid, and Nicole Scherzinger. In recent years, artists have actively cooperated with different fields. Besides the fashion industry, Dobrowolski collaborated with internationally recognized band 5 Seconds of Summer for a live painting masterclass.


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Born in Jelenia Góra, Poland, Dobrowolski has long drawn from the aesthetics of his childhood hometown for inspiration.  Delicately shaded large-scale paintings in monochrome hues are often layered with overlapping body parts or dream-like imagery. Inspired by Dalí and Escher as a child, Dobrowolski spent hours indoors sketching; drawing from his family’s collection of art books which had a profound influence on his practice.

“At that time, I was reading about what was going on in the world and I was struck by the trauma, the pain, the suffering – I wanted to do something. It was my way of expressing myself and I felt it in my heart. I was just painting and sleeping. Painting and sleeping. Trying to make a difference.”


Dobrowolski has been concerned about social issues and humanitarianism for a long time. His creative forms include oil painting, photography, and mixed media creation. Motivated by the desire to convey true stories, Dobrowolski launched a series of street art campaigns in different countries, using his art to juxtapose Western consumerism with human suffering. Intent to arouse people's attention to social issues. In 2017, the artist created on billboards, which combining photographic artworks evoked the detrimental impact of fast fashion, try to guide the audience to reflect on, value, reduce harm and help who or which directly and indirectly affect under the world of the prosperous. In 2017, Igor Berlin hosted another "Christmas in Yemen" event, through the combination of contrasting the world, to show the long neglected reality. “I just want to give a voice to the voiceless. Because for many, the world is a merciless thing.”


There is one text from Russian writer influent Igor a lot and artist try to reflect in his artworks.

“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never be conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man's meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”

― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate


Through continuous attention and action on social issues and humanitarianism, the artist Dobrowolski has developed a new series of works recently, using metal media and mirror treatment, carving on metal surfaces, and using mixed media and polyester which creates three-dimensional crystals. The sorrow and suffering in the past are sublimated into beautiful crystals. Through the characteristics of the metal and special treatment, the new series artwork is like the sun, shining brightly. The work is no longer just sorrow, but with a strong hope and power. “It is very important for me to include, in all of my works a particle of hope, because I believe it’s going to be ‘better.’ Even after the greatest tragedies.”


Dobrowolski’s work has been exhibited in Miami, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Berlin, Rzeszów and London and can be found in the private collections of numerous celebrities including Channing Tatum, Gigi Hadid, and Nicole Scherzinger. In recent years, artists have actively cooperated with different fields. Besides the fashion industry, Dobrowolski collaborated with internationally recognized band 5 Seconds of Summer for a live painting masterclass. In 2020, the artist held the first Asian solo exhibition at GIN HUANG Gallery, which has received great response and support.


2023

  • ART TAIPEI 2023 ,Taipei, Taiwan
  • Solo Exhibition11th Commandment, Gin Huang Gallery,Taichung,Taiwan

  • ONE ART TAIPEI,Taipei,Taiwan

  • Solo ExhibitionInner States, G-allery Gallery, Berlin

2022

  • One Offs NFT 2022, W Taipei, Taipei , Taiwan
  • ART TAIPEI 2022, Gin Huang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • ART TAICHUNG  2022, Taichung, Taiwan
  • ART CENTRAL 2022, Hong Kong
  • ART SOLO 2022, Taipei, Taiwan
  • INNER STATES, Gin Huang Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Art Tainan 2022, Tainan, Taiwan
  • Group ExhibitionBlack Cod Gallery, Belgium

2021

  • Gin Huang Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Art Tainan 2021, Tainan, Taiwan
  • Solo Show, Gin Huang Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

2020

  • Re-Love, Gin Huang Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Urban Art Storm, Centurion House, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Art Formosa 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Summer contemporary, Maddox Gallery London
  • Day of future present, Plan X Art Gallery, Italy
2019
  • Art Milami Fair,  Miami
  • Spring contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
  • Love and other crimes - Mayfair
  • Summer Contemporary - Shepherd Market
  • Summer Contemporary - Mayfair
  • Summer Contemporary - Westbourne Grove
  • Spring Contemporary
2017
  • Solo Show, Berlin - Igor Dobrowoski
  • Solo Show Wrocaw - Igor Dobrowolski
  • Art Fair, Rzeszów - Art United Fair
2016
  • Art Fair, Rzeszów - Art United Fair
  • Solo show, Warsaw Poland


Street Art Project

  • Christmas in Yemen
  • Fast Fashion
  • Who Care
  • War Child, Child without a Mama
  • Ronald
  • Dreams, Desires
  • MC
  • Less
  • Now I Feel Better
  • Sick Future
  • Last Christmas
  • This Place Must be Messed Up
  • Free Palestine



      INSTALLATION VIEWS

      PRESS

      Igor Dobrowolski
      Press|Igor Dobrowlski Calls Out Society Through his Unconvential Art
      Igor Dobrowolski
      Press|Creating Meaningful Artworks That Inspire Many
      Inner Child Painting by Igor Dobrowolski
      Video|Poland artist Igor Dobrowolski's Kids series!!
      伊果 ‧ 多布羅沃斯基 Igor Dobrowolski x 田奈藝術 GIN HUANG Gallery
      Video|NEW ARRIVE!!artworks from Polish artist Igor Dobrowolski
      Press|Dialogue between Images and Words in Street Art: From Decoration to Igor Dobrowolski's Internal Monologue
      Press|Dialogue between Images and Words in Street Art: From Decoration to Igor Dobrowolski's Internal Monologue
      Igor Dobrowolski Interview-My Paintings Explore Different Tragedies In People's Lives
      Interview|My Paintings Explore Different Tragedies In People’s Lives
      The latest gold mirror artworks' by Igor Dobrowolski
      Video|The solo show of Igor Dobrowolski in Asia is coming! STAY TUNED!
      Polish Artist Igor Dobrowolski's Art Collection Video
      Video|Polish Artist Igor Dobrowolski's Art Collection Video
      Full Day


Writing on the artwork:
Not so much happened but the day was so full.

Colour:Gold
81 x 61 x 7cm 
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Full Day
      Love the Moments


Writing on the artwork:
I love the moments that are now.

Colour: Rose Gold
61 x 46 x 7cm
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Love the Momoent
      Happy Mask


Writing on the artwork:
Happy mask. So beautiful, so vivid, so real but illusion

Colour:Rose Gold
81 x 61 x 7cm
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Happy Mask
      We Real


Writing on the artwork:
We real, stay a child, mom Igi

Colour:Silver
81 x 61 x 7cm 
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|We real
      Necessary Illusion


Writing on the artwork:
Anarhiofobia. Necessary Illusion. 
Perfect $ystem

Colour:Gold
61 x 46 x 7cm 
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Necessary Illusion
      Just Gold


Colour: Gold
61 x 46 x 7cm 
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Just Gold
      Breathless


Writing on the artwork:
- Breathless moment

Colour: Gold
81 x 61 x 7cm 
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Breathless
      Small Deeds 


Writing on the artwork:
Small deeds of Ordinary people.

Colour: Gold
61 x 46 x 7cm
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Small Deeds
      Globalization of Lost


Writing on the artwork:
-Globalization of lost and emptiness.

Colour: Silver
61 x 46 x 7cm
Sterling Silver, Aluminium, Polyester
      Artwork Video|Globalization of Lost
      The latest gold mirror and kids series artworks by Igor Dobrowolski
      Video|The latest “Crooked Mirrors” and "MY INNER CHILD" series artworks by Igor Dobrowolski
      Gold mirror artworks' by Igor Dobrowolski
      Video|Gold mirror artworks' by Igor Dobrowolski
      Mirror artworks' by Igor Dobrowolski
      Video|Mirror artworks' by Igor Dobrowolski
      Polish artist Igor Dobrowolski artwork creating process
      Video|Artist creating process
      CHRISTMAS IN YEMEN BY IGOR DOBROWOLSKI
      Press|CHRISTMAS IN YEMEN BY IGOR DOBROWOLSKI
      Why Do You Exist?
      Press|Why Do You Exist
      I Started Paintings 4 Years Ago I Try To Share My Feelings, Check What Came Out Of It
      Press|I Started Paintings 4 Years Ago I Try To Share My Feelings, Check What Came Out Of It
      The Greed Of Fashion Industries On Billboards
      Press|The Greed Of Fashion Industries On Billboards
      Meet Igor Dobrowolski
      Press|Meet Igor Dobrowolski
      The latest MY INNER CHILD series artworks by Igor Dobrowolski
      The latest "MY INNER CHILD" series artworks by Igor Dobrowolski

      EXHIBITION

      ART TAIPEI 2023【 H11 Gin Huang Gallery 】

      ART TAIPEI 2023【 H11 Gin Huang Gallery 】

      ART SOLO 2023 Booth C13

      ART SOLO 2023 Booth C13

      11th Commandment - Igor Dobrowolski spring solo show

      11th Commandment - Igor Dobrowolski spring solo show

      ONE ART TAIPEI 2023

      ONE ART TAIPEI 2023

      Art Taipei 2022

      Art Taipei 2022

      HONG KONG ART CENTRAL 2022

      HONG KONG ART CENTRAL 2022

      ART SOLO 2022

      ART SOLO 2022

      Igor Dobrowolski:SOLO SHOW in Asia - INNER STATES

      Igor Dobrowolski:SOLO SHOW in Asia - INNER STATES

      OneOffs NFT International Art Fair

      OneOffs NFT International Art Fair

      Art Taipei 2021

      Art Taipei 2021

      Re-LOVE / Igor Dobrowolski solo show

      Re-LOVE

      Love the Moment / Igor Dobrowolski Solo Show

      Love the Moment

      Art Formosa 2020

      Art Formosa 2020