TUTORS

NAME AND SURNAMEMarek Herbik

DATE OF BIRTH1964

1991 Master’s degree

UNIVERSITY (DEPARTMENT) The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Faculty of Textile and Clothing)

SUPERVISORMaria Zielińska prof., A. Szonert prof.

2004 PhD

UNIVERSITY (DEPARTMENT)Institute of Fine Arts in Cieszyn, Silesia University Department

SUPERVISORprof. Małgorzata Łuszczak

2010 Habilitation

UNIVERSITY (DEPARTMENT)The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design ( Faculty of Graphic Design and Media Art)

SUPERVISOR

The main field of my consideration is the awareness of time and its passing. I make attempts to find my own typological systems whose qualities are relevant to me. Forms derived from nature that are processed and separated from its clear-cut associations serve as the substance and the material of my works of art.
Traces of time, which are preserved by my works, partly belong to the material world and partly to the spiritual sphere. They consist of some kind of unreality which is indispensable for the work to be created. I try to create a unique, subjective archive of transience. Narrating is for me a form of confabulation, a process in which the world is created, not recreated.
I believe in the purpose of creating art, I have a feeling of mission, it’s a form of repository of existence for me. The curiosity and amazement towards the phenomenon of life, as well as the experiment in artistic and spiritual dimension decrease the feeling of helplessness towards transience and passing away.

PUBLICATIONS

The Faculty of Photography and Multimedia The Faculty of Photography and Multimedia The Faculty of Photography and Multimedia