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ExhibitionsMarta 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. However, Marta's portfolio extends beyond botanical themes. Her interpretation of nature is neither direct nor literal, often surprising us with vibrant color palettes and graceful forms.
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 Gravity 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 Studioof 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.
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. They are outspoken, mistical in mistery; as simple ones as a man and as complicated ones as human fate.The Maidens from the Thirteen fix on Panek and try to talk to him about their secrets and stories in their own ways.
Sławomir Cwiek was born in Łódż in 1954. He studied at the Print Department of The State College of Visual Arts in his home town (1974-1980).In 1980 he graduated from the Print Department in the Lithography Studio at Prof. Jerzy Grabowski and in the Painting Studio at Prof. Stanisław Fijałkowski. 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. When asked why that was his main theme, he would reply, “I do them because I know myself best of all”. Here’s my basic sentence. Ego sum. One may also say, ars longa, vita brevis, so I record this short life of mine in relation to eternity (...). Here the mirror is constantly the most important piece of equipment and tool ”.
Marta Bożyk quits a banal overexerted by tradition aesthetics of bouquet. She employs a close-up of a flower, she incarnates its shape. Using black and whites 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 emotuions, it is her favourite medium of expression often embodying a portrayal of human figure. So she draws lines taking down her desires, feelings and emotions; thus the theme emerges. It happens that it is a flower.
Answering to the motto of this year`s Cracovian Gallery Weekend KRAKERS /CHANGE/ we draw on not really distant history and on the present as well. We remind, not without a special reason, Jerzy Panek the classic of Polish art who was „always faithful to changes” and his woodcuts from the cycle Fair Portraits. `A rebour we also quote from Henryk Ożóg a much younger artist who analysing styles and trends of contemporary art world in context of his own work says : „Nothing changes”. We observe and emphasize paradoxical phenomenon of change and at the same time „unity in plurality” in an invariably continued cycle titled Pumpkin by Stanisław Wejman. With satisfaction we remind Landszaft by Władysław Pluta which against ominous predictions becomes a promise of a new landscape of modern times. What does besides the need of change connect these artists who differ in ideas and generations ? We assume that their work, not derogating its spontaneity, is more an effect of deepen reflection on artist`s work than a response on a frenetic variability and bluring borders of sourrounding world.