Darek Pala by Lena Wicherkiewicz

In the light of trees, in the colour of corals...
Trees – corals. So colouristically exotic in the Polish landscape, and yet of familiar, almost Mazovian shapes… Phenomenal pseudo-willows, artefact-like organisms glaring with internal energy. A colourful colony of luminous quasi-botanical specimens.

Such are the latest sculptures, or objects, or – actually – installations by Dariusz Pala, which are about to grow among real trees in the garden of the University of Warsaw Library to illuminate the night with their warm and joyful light. In their current shape The Trees for Warsaw – as this is the name chosen by the author – are a group of sculptural objects made of transparent thermopla...