Dimensions: 18.5 x 6.5 x 5 cm
Signed and dated on the bottom: 'AG | 6 XII 18'
Biography
Andrzej Glód was born in Pashin. He graduated from a vocational school and for a long time worked as a carpenter in one of the woodworking gallantries in Nowy Sącz, he also cooperated with Cepelia. He was a member of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Nowy Sącz. He currently lives and creates in Grybow. There, in 2004, he was one of the founders of the now-defunct Miniatura Gallery, whose purpose was exhibition and educational activity.
He began carving in wood in 1971. Initially, in his work, Andrzej Glod was somewhat inspired by the art of his uncle, another sculptor from Paszyn - Mieczyslaw Piwka, while maintaining his freshness and artistic individuality. Later he expanded his activities and began to create stone sculptures as well. The artist often polychromes his sculptures, but sometimes leaves the natural colors of wood and stone.
Andrew Glod deals with both religious and secular themes, although the former should be considered the predominant one.
He first showed his works as part of a competition of contemporary folk sculpture of the Polish Carpathians organized in 1971 by the W. Orkan Museum in Rabka-Zdroj and the District Museum in Nowy Sacz. It was also the first show of Pazinian sculpture in general. The then fourteen-year-old Andrzej Glód was awarded second prize in the competition. In subsequent editions of this competition, the artist won a distinction (1975) and a place (1977), respectively. The artist willingly participates in exhibitions and fairs. Among the sculptor's other successes is a distinction in the national competition "Nicolaus Copernicus in folk sculpture" (Torun 1943).
Andrzej Glod's works are in several museum collections, including those of the Parish Museum of Folk Art in Paszyn, the District Museum in Nowy Sacz and the Ethnographic Museum in Torun.
