Tomasz Westrych
Tomasz Westrych. Born in 1968, graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the J. Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1996. He teaches at the 1st Sculpture Studio in the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Interior Design. J. Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, in 2006. He is involved in sculpture, which he has pursued in two ways to date, concerns work in terracotta and cellulose, and recycled, dyed paper. In 2018, he became a member of the International Association of Painters and Paper Artists (IAPMA).
He treats drawing as a working tool, having kept sketchbooks for years in which he draws designs for future sculptures with small comments on reality.
...My research explorations revolve around matters of sculpture and the sculptor's workshop in the broadest sense, and I do not mean the instrumentation with which the facilities of the creative studio are associated. The workshop of the academic, is not just a collection of tools and knowledge of material and methods of cutting or molding, for example. It is a private and internal area where the sculpture is created before one touches the material. An experiment of research in terms of physical-technical conditions, it is a process where I use the matter of paper pulp or terracotta to touch the truth of the physical shape of the work at the same time. He realizes sculptures in cycles of works, inquiring into the space of nature in its broadest sense and its diversity. In this area, the human being has its important place; it is usually the most important narrator between the content and the final form of the work.
