Janusz Wrobel Fine Art Photography
Finishing Work finishing and pricing policies
Details
Photographic images that contain any photo manipulation are marked as “photography based medium”, not “photography”. Each photograph comes with a certificate that documents the materials/equipment used, the location, the edition number, and the artist's signature. The “Photograph Information Record” is provided upon individual request. I print and finish the photographs myself, using the finest, water-based archival materials. They are mounted on painter panels and coated with multi-layered water base veneer. To ensure longevity of 100+ years, and for easy maintenance, I do not use any adhesives, laminates or resins. Panels are finished with floating frames in matching colours. Custom-sized prints and other framing finishes are available on request. Images from the “Water Studies” series are also available as face-mounted on acrylic panels. Pricing of my work is based on a two-tier system. Each edition has a fixed base price for the first tier, and a progressively higher price for the second tier, which is the end of each image edition. For editions of 3, 2 copies are sold at the base price; for editions of 6, 4 copies are sold at the base price; for editions of 9, 6 copies are sold at the base price; for editions of 15, 10 copies are sold are sold at the base price.
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Prices for my photographic prints, in all sizes, are firm. Different framing options, fluctuations of currency exchange rates and client locations can affect the listed price by a margin no larger than 20%. All source materials, films and digital files are destroyed and the end of each edition, with a small version retained for cataloguing purposes. Janusz Wrobel 2007
Current Exhibition Projects
An Aqueous State Burlington Art Gallery November 2014 - January 2015
Intermission Carnegie Gallery January 2015
Public gallery exhibition setting
Private gallery setting
Corporate office setting
Work Finishing Details Classic Painter panel ( Baltic birch plywood with balsa wood frame with sides stained to match frame ) Wall gripping soft pads
Certificate of authenticity (blanc sample)
Sunken hangers
Solid wood moulding
Edition number with artist’s signature Close-up of panel mounted into the espresso finish wood floating frame
1.1" or 1.75"
Black, espresso & German Silver floating frames profiles 1.125"
Coated photograph 2" or 2.75"
Painter panel
2"
Linen envelope with printed certificate of authenticity listing the piece edition number, materials, scene location and artist’s signature.
This finish only when requested for large murals in public spaces
Laminated print on Durabond panel
View of the back side of photograph mounted on the 32"x22" painter panel.
Bookmark with artist Bio
Finished photographs (archival quality standards)
Water Grass Study #3 with 33"x33" black floating frame
“Breeze Study 03/09" with 25"x35" black satin floating frame
Selection of hardcover 11.5"x 15" exhibition catalogues (2008 - 2015)
Catalogues/books of current exhibition projects
Click on one of two thumbnails to open soft (.pdf) version overview
Steps:
“Artwork In Situ�
- Clients use my portfolio to select images of their choice. - An image of the wall space is supplied by a gallery or client. - Multiple virtual image placement proposals are then sent to clients. - Framing/finishing options, size, proportions and budget are coordinated with clients/gallery/designer. - Finished artwork done is delivered and installed or crated and shipped.
placement proposals support
Placement proposals #3
Placement proposals #1
74" selected artwork installed in home environment
Placement proposals #1
76" selected artwork installed in office environment
Placement proposals #2
In Situ placement application
20-artwork project of a new sailboat. Designed by Adam Lay Studio, UK Build by Baltic Yachts Oy Ab Ltd. Finland - 2013 Artwork by Janusz Wrobel Project designer and co-ordinator: kantelberg +co., Toronto, Canada
Packing & Shipping Details
16 pieces in the shipping crate
32" x 70" photograph on the painter panel with espresso floating frame
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Janusz Wrobel About myself What is relevant about me is that I spent the first three decades of my life seeking education in seemingly unrelated fields: dye making, chemical engineering, theoretical physics, chemistry, and the science of photographic materials. During these formative years, I was also exposed to the humanized environments of continental Europe, which had been nearly completely altered by the gradual interventions of previous generations. It infused me with the concept of a natural world that was compliant and contained—a view that was well entrenched in the societal mind set of that time and place. I've spent the other half of my life contemplating natural processes, within a range of environments, on scales that were unimaginable to me in my earlier years. The confrontation between these two different ways of viewing the natural world made clear their striking differences, and led to the formation of a new frame of reference. I began to see the natural world as symbiotic relationships of many different scales, where the physical and biological worlds interact amid processes that have been established and maintained over time frames that are inherently relevant to them.
About my medium My professional association with the medium of photography started when I was still a teenager. What attracted me to photography was its ability to force me to pay attention to what I was seeing. I tapped into this attraction and deployed this medium throughout my life, in applications ranging from medical, scientific and industrial, to documenting international arts festivals and tackling sociopolitical issues in the form of conceptual installations, in order to avoid scrutiny and political censorship. My use of classic techniques and materials - inevitably consuming more time and resources - forced me from the start to be more contemplative of what I was attempting to interpret through photography. The act of seeing happens in the brain, where light impulses that enter through our eyes are being interpreted. What is stored in each of us becomes the basis for the brain's interpretation, and that opens up the possibility of different impressions of the same reality. Each of us sees the world differently, and might photograph it differently as well.
Bio Born in Poland, Janusz Wrobel spent his early years immersed in academic studies of photography. He was actively involved in many art exhibitions in Poland and abroad before coming to Canada in 1982. During the following two decades, Janusz developed a successful career in commercial studio photography and image processing. After moving to Dundas Ontario in 2005, he dedicated himself entirely to fine art photography and has since participated in a large number of gallery exhibitions. Janusz's work relates to his many adventure travels and his personal association with remote places in natural environments. In his images he reflects upon the many time based processes and forces that shaped these environments. His photography explores the ambiguity of scale, focusing on precise details among the vastness of the Canadian wilderness. In doing so, his work aims to provoke the viewer to consider their own relationship to the natural world, to the grand and the minute. He is represented in Canadian artwork collections and abroad.
In this book project, I use photography in its inherent capacity to provide unaltered and verifiable images of places that many Canadians have seen at some point in their lives. The selected images are the outcome of a much longer process that illustrates my reconciliation with my New World.
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