Curriculum Vitae

Born: 5th January 1953 in Stalinogród (now Katowice), Poland. Education: Secondary education at the Liceum Plastyczne (a state grammar school specializing in art), Krakow. Commenced a course of study at the College for Psychiatric Nursing at Kobierzyn, Krakow, but left to enrol in the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture at the PWSSP (State College for the Fine Arts), Wroclaw in 1972, and transferred in 1973 to Krakow, to the Faculty of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts, where he completed his diploma course (M.F.A. - awarded a distinction) in Professor Adam Marczynski studio,1978.

Any media or discipline divisions do not restrict his art. Interested in conceptual design and the theory of art. Since 1974 he has been exhibiting and presenting his works in Poland and abroad.

Artur Tajber 3 works at the exhibition Din A4, Archivos abiertos, Malaga, 2009

WALK'MAN

 August 1999
Walkman means just walkman. But WALK'MAN is a word I use as a metaphor of my works related to the urban space. Since 1955 I have spent a lot of time trying to reconstruct all the walks by the towns that I visited in the past and I remember for today. From now on I also try to control and stimulate my present walks. The result of that activity is just an imaginary image of a complex, spatial structure in move, but mnemo-technical images and objects constructed during that work I am showing as a representation of my own sense of urban space - particular one as well as universal.
From five years the three main ideas as: "Achanlochy" (an earth work located in rural landscape); "WALK'MAN" and desolation (or DESOLACTION, desolation -action) heve been the most significant inspirations of my work and meditations. For about 25 years I have worked especially as a writer, perfomance-maker, object-maker and installation-maker. Occasionally I also make images and sound-drawings, photographs, digital mutations of videos and digital animations. I produce all thoose things inside the frames of specific themes. Achanlochy, WALK'MAN, DESOLACTION are just themes like that.
 
Most of the physical objects that I produce, including images, are results of analysis of my memory. Therefor Achanlochy means human presence in natural landscape and WALK'MAN, human behaviour patterns in urban space. DESOLACTION is a title that I have used since 1994 specially for my performances. I use a lot of technical equipment and hi-tech techniques to prepare those performances - the main idea is to emit an image of a part of my body and to transpose it as a characteristic of surrounding space and vice versa. During those performances I use very often objects and meanings produced for WALK'MAN and Achanlochy - and vice versa.
An installation I am showing at L5 is a next simple realisation of the WALK'MAN cycle. In fact , it is a kind of compilation of shapes, relationships and proportions coming from the streets I was walking by or working on in these last months, included an inspiration of Roermond and the inside of L5.