JERZY FOBER

after image and likeness...

Museum of Contemporary Sculpture

17^th October - 31^st December 2009

Curator: Anna Podsiadły

Fober seems to treat his sculpting as a job performed reliably and with competence, with the features of highly understood professionalism. In the new spaces open to contemporary art, full of tensions, draughts, anxiety, hurry and concern to keep up with the time, to board the right train carrying you to the new, in this situation Fober behaves cynically, even insolently and proposes peace and quiet.

Prof. Jan Kucz

Fragment of a review, ASP Warsaw, 1992

These are strange sculptures - suspended between realism and abstraction, yet, they have great clarity. No one has to ponder how the artist's thoughts were going; we should admire his aptness of mental shortcuts and his influence on the viewers' imagination.

Henryka Wach-Malicka

‘Ambiguous Reality', „Dziennik Zachodni" 1995, no 170

Sculptures giving so much sensual satisfaction in direct perception that we could easily overlook their message, the drama Jerzy Fober burdens them with. Because avoiding an expressive shock, and attracting you into the charm of the aesthetic value of the form, the Artist with his imaginings and a repertoire of symbols, slowly and almost painlessly involves the viewer into the moving cases of human suffering. The suffering entangled in oppressions and hopes formed by the Bible.

Prof. Jacek Waltoś
Fragment of a review, ASP Warsaw, 1995

JERZY FOBER

was born in Warsaw in 1959. From 1974 to 1979 he learnt at the Antoni Kenar State Secondary School of Art in Zakopane, where he gained a diploma in sculpture, working under the direction of Prof Michał Gąsienica-Szostak. From 1979 to 1984 he studied at the Sculpture Department of the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, in Prof Stanisław Kulon's atelier. In 1984 he was awarded honorary mention for his diploma project Entombment. In 1982, as a student, together with Andrzej Szarek and Czesław Podleśny, he set up an art group ‘...kim jesteś' (‘...who are you?'). He participated in the group's exhibitions until 1990. Since 1986 he has been involved in art education. Now he the head of the Sculpture Department of  the Fine Arts Institute in Cieszyn , part of the Art Department of the Silesian University in Katowice. Additionally, since 1996 he has been conduction a sculpture atelier at the Painting and Graphic faculty of the Fine arts Academy in Katowice. In 2000 he received the title of Fine Arts Professor.

Awards and Scholarships:

1988 - medal at the 3rd Biennial of Sacral Art, Bureau for Art Exhibitions (BWA), Gorzów Wielkopolski; 1989 - I award for sculpture at the exhibition Primum non nocere, BWA, Krakow; 1992 - Father Albert award for religious sculpture; 1994^nd Triennial of Art Sacrum, BWA, Częstochowa; 1985, 1987, 1991, 1999 and 2004 - scholarships of the Ministry of Culture and Art (now the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) - Częstochowa Mayor award, 2

Works in collections:

National Museum in Krakow, Regional Museum in Bielsko-Biała, Museum of Polish Contemporary Sacral Art in Kielce, Contemporary Art Collection of Luzern (Switzerland), Catholic University of Lublin, Collection of the ‘POGRANICZE' Foundation in Sejny, private collections in Poland, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Italy

Plein-air realizations:

 ‘Pieta of the 21^st Century', 1998, wood, Braunau am Inn (Austria), St Stephen's church

‘Bavarian Landscape', 1999, wood, Kotzting (Germany), City Park

‘Relaxation', 2004, wood, Pramet-Feitzting (Austria)

‘Awakening', 2005, wood, Plesna (Czech Republic)

Monuments:

‘Monument of a Student', 2008, bronze, Katowice, Silesian University, together with Andrzej Szarek

category: Exhibitions, added: 2009-11-06 10:03:13