The Mungyeong Traditional Chasabal Festival takes place in Mungyeong. Mateusz Grobelny, who runs a sculpture studio at BOK-MCC in Bolesławiec, was invited to this year’s 14th edition of the festival. He is the only Pole taking part in this artistic event.
“Being invited to the festival is a great distinction and honor,” says Mateusz Grobelny. “During the event, it will be possible to win the Tea Bowl Medal, and I hope to return to Bolesławiec with this award.
At the festival, the artist will present tea bowls of his own design at his stand. An exhibition will then be organized. The firing will take place in a traditional Korean kiln.
This is another prestigious invitation to a ceramics festival that Mateusz Grobelny has received. Last year, the artist presented his unique mobile kiln at Europe’s largest International Ceramics Festival. As the only artist from Poland, he took part in a major ceramics fair attended by more than 800 professionals from around the world.
In his daily work, Grobelny runs an independent studio at the International Ceramics Center. The studio has been operating since 2010, and its participants learn ceramic-making technologies: from preparing clay, through hand-building and wheel-throwing, to firing.
Mateusz Grobelny graduated from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. He is also a clothing technician specializing as a designer-stylist and a construction technician. Since 2009, Grobelny has run the GAR Open Ceramics Studio project. The studio’s purpose is to present technologies for producing and preserving ceramics through demonstrations of firings in wood-fired kilns and demonstrations of making ceramics by hand and on a potter’s wheel.
(information: Grażyna Hanaf/BOK-MCC)