ALOJZ ZORMAN FOJŽ

Alojz Zorman FOJŽ was born 18 June 1952 in Radovljica. He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1981, and he finished his MA studies in book design in the class of professor J. Stanny.
He is now working in illustration, drawing, puppet and set design, design of teaching toys for children, book design and poster design.

Writing in a funny way about funny personalities is not an especially fun endeavour. The written fun is supposed to build upon, and should go beyond, the fun of the funny artist. Fojž is a funny artist. And sometimes he also screws around with you. It’s then that he is at his best. He works for fun, and for that fun art lovers, publishers, gallery owners, principals and their ilk even pay him something. And this circumstance, too, is in its own way funny. I have fun writing about serious things, and vice versa.
Somewhat humbly and imperceptibly, Fojž perceives the world around him. He seems harmless to his surroundings. But watch out! When a drawing is done, when all the lines have been drawn, Fojž’s art is like a broom, indulgently but steadily sweeping before it human stupidity and weaknesses.
Fojž has a gentle nature. His art is never insulting or even, heaven forbid, banal. I think that his art is sometimes melancholic. And this comes from the Slav roots.