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NewsMarta Wakula-Mac's diverse printmaking career is defined by an intimate and sentimental connection with nature, with floral motifs taking center stage in her current exhibition. Her "herbariums," where she presses plants directly onto paper, and intricate floral miniatures in linocut and dry point techniques have long been admired.
The newest works by Małgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana are presented on the exhibition : drawings derived from this year and also a cycle of aesthetical different works which are cut out of paper. And these very monumental paper collages fill the mainwall of the gallery dominating its space. The over two-metre composition titled " I ve been looking for Sun from many years... is surrounded by slighty smaller Sun and Radiation creating wings of a cosmic triptych; homogeneous and consistent composition that melt into a galaxy of the third dimension.
In my prints I decided to come closer to the theory of gravity. And this exhibition The Implications of Gravitating is the result of my interest. The topic, which is a part of this exposition, is also connected with one of my graphic series. I have been always interested in science and now I try to converse it on an artistic language in my prints.
Rafał Pytel born in 1974. He finished the Painting and Print Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He runs the Drawing Studio of the Maintenance Department of Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He is an interdisciplinary artist. He deals with print, painting, space objects, artbook and reliefs. He also employs sound.
Henryk Ożóg born in 1956. He studied at the Print Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He graduated in 1981. Now he is a professor there. He also teaches at the European Public College in Przemysl (the East Poland). He deals with print, painting and drawing. In print he uses mixed techniques : dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, corundum, soft vernix.He exhibited his works on over 40 solo shows and over 400 group ones in Poland and abroad.
At the Reykjanes Art Museum`s invitation we have a pleasure to present25 artists cooperating with Jan Fejkiel Gallery from Krakow. Most of them graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, the oldest art school in Poland, which celebrated its 200th anniversary last year. In recognition of this historical jubilee, we were particularly interested in choosing the latest and most up-to-date fine art prints from the city, which for years has been one of the most influential centres of this field of art in Poland.
In 2019 the Group 13 celebrates the twentieth anniversary. This time we meet face to face with Jerzy Panek`s works; the artists who was portraying loved women but also other ones who impressed him much. His works are very inspiring. They engage us in the world of obscure allusion, tragicomedy, unusual everydayness.
Sławomir Ćwiek studied at the Print Department of The State College of Visual Arts in Łódż (1974-1980). He graduated in 1980. Since 1992 he takes lectures at his home academy. He became an academy professor in 2017. Now he runs the Studio of Mixed Techniques and at the same time he is a director of the Artistic Print Department at the Print and Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódż. He is a memeber of the Society of the International Print Triennial in Cracow. He works in printing, drawing and painting.
Jerzy Panek portrayed himself all his life. Ego sum - was the title given to one of his first self-portraits from 1942. The head, the portrait, and most often the self-portrait (because Panek would find his reflection in almost every motif) is the main theme of his work.Towards the end of his life, when he would hardly ever leave his atelier, he drew almost exclusively self-portraits, using crayon and etching techniques.
Marta Bożyk quits a banal and overexerted by tradition aesthetics of bouquet. She employs a close-up of a flower, she incarnates its shape. Using black and white colours she distances herself from sensuality of a floral motif. The artist concentrates on a graphic of depiction. A line is here a sign of abstraction and liberation of flower from restrictions of naturalism. It is also an expression of artist's emotions, it is her favourite medium of expression often embodying a portrayal of a human figure. So she draws lines taking down her desires, feelings and emotions; thus the theme emerges. It happens that it is a flower.