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.
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