BIOGRAPHIE
“My ally is experience and observation. I am inspired by humans, specifically the relationships between people, their differences, and similarities.”
Marek Zyga is a Polish sculptor born in 1968. Passionate about the human body and its language, he creates busts, torsos, and faces. When he imagines a new work, the artist does not make sketches but sculpts directly in clay, this raw material that he exploits in all its forms.
Marek Zyga attempts to uncover the secrets of our gestures and understand their messages. Each gesture is for him a phrase that he breaks down into words and then into letters, a moving and mysterious part of these works that runs freely on the bodies. This surreal nuance reflects who we are. The letter is also a means of interpersonal communication so important in our modern world. It can become the symbol of a struggle against the problems of wars, conflicts, and misunderstandings.
In 2007, a major exhibition was dedicated to him at the Museum of Ceramics in Boleslawiec (Poland). Since then, Marek Zyga has been part of numerous private collections internationally.
Find his works at Marciano Contemporary Galleries.