Adam Myjak, Head from the series "SEN"
Patinated bronze
Work signed. Unique
Dimensions: 90 x 75 x 70 cm
"The early period of His work was marked by a great series of heads with soft, as if misty texture and dreamy features, monumental regardless of their physical dimensions. The motif of the head as a field of symbolic endeavor remains current in his work, undergoing, along with equally classic subjects such as the bust and the figure, successive formal and stylistic phases." (after the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw)
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Adam Myjak - prominent Polish sculptor. An educator, professor of fine arts, he debuted with the creators of the New Figuration. In 1971-79 he was artistic director of the magazine "Nowy Wyraz. Monthly Literary Magazine of the Young."
Co-author of the "Katyn Monument" in Warsaw (with Janusz Pastwa). He is the creator, among others, of busts of Krzysztof Penderecki (2013), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (2014) and, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, of the Jan Ekier medal.
His works are in the collections of many major museums and private collections. He is a multiple winner of international and national competitions. Since 2009 he has been an active member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. For more than a dozen years he was a member of the Program Council of the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, including five times as its chairman. He was awarded the Gold Medal for "Meritorious Service to Culture Gloria Artis" (2005).
In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts, and was also awarded the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Prize - "Work of Life."
Together with Waldemar Dabrowski, director of the Grand Theater - National Opera, he runs the Opera Gallery. Two of his original galleries are in operation - at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Center in Luslawice and the Center for Theater Practices in Gardzienice.
He runs a graduate studio at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is also head of the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Arts at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. He was elected rector of his alma mater three times for double terms (1990-96, 1999-2005, 2012-20).
