Jan HERE (b. 1969), Individual; 2019

Iron, patinated, waxed; 64 x 27 x 63 cm
Signed from below

Works in sculpture, medal making, drawing and photography. Graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In the 1993/94 academic year, study internship at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Nuremberg. Diploma with honors in the atelier of Prof. Józef Sękowski in 1994. Scientific and didactic employee of the mother department. Currently leads the Sculpture Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and serves as dean.
He has participated in many national sculpture competitions, and has realized, among others, a monument to Jan Matejko in Cracow, a monument to Filip de Girard in Zyrardow, a monument to the "Sons of the Sanok Land Fallen and Murdered for Poland" in Sanok. The works were presented in individual exhibitions, including at the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, BWA in Bydgoszcz, BWA in Rzeszow, North Mazovian Museum in Lomza, Palace of Art in Cracow. He has participated in more than seventy exhibitions and group shows at home and abroad, including France, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, USA, Switzerland, Japan, Finland, Italy.
Jan Tutaj's works balance on the border between traditional sculpture and object. The artist uses a variety of techniques and creates from wood, metal, concrete, glass, paper and fabricated elements. His sculptures usually have a geometrizing, often sparing form with symbolic meaning.

"At the core of my artistic search is the conviction of the complexity of understanding felt and imagined space, reality perceived sensorially and at the same time experienced, processed and redefined with the language of art. What seems obvious and inexorable to the sculptor: three-dimensionality, weight, matter, multi-vector tensions, relations of masses, etc., faces a layer of subjective cultural codes, phenomena mediated through the fluidity of life. The space of sculpture in the physical sense, with all its belonging features, comes into contact with the imagined and envisioned."
Jan Tutaj