Ryszard Pielesz

In the years 2000–2019, he dealt with digital graphics. Currently, the author has returned to painting. Creates pictures on paper. He developed his own painting technique consisting in layering tempera paint and scratching it with sharp tools, thanks to which the paintings gain more spatiality.

In the years 2020-2021, he produced a series of paintings entitled “The Sanctuary of Nature”, presented at the Polish Institute in Manchester. In 2022, I started a series entitled “Illustrations for the Book of Mountains”.

The author exhibited his works in galleries in Japan, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the United States.

Ryszard Pielesz's painting can be classified as informel abstraction. Allusions to mountain landscape motifs are visible in his works. The author draws his inspiration from climbing in the Dolomites and the Tatras.

She lives in Poland. She was born in Nikopol, Dnipro area,Ukraina. In 1990 she graduated from the Odessa Art College. Grekova M. B. Teacher: Udovichenko S. In 2016 she graduated from the Odessa State Pedagogical University named after. K. D. Ushinsky. Teacher: I. Oros. She begans her creative activity in 2004 as a stage designer at the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre.

2016 teacher drawing, painting, composition, in Odessa.

2022 Faculty of Arts and Pedagogical Sciences of the University of Silesia in Katowice in Cieszyn - teaching assistant drawing 20216 She works as a graphic artist, in ex-libris.

Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine and the Czech Republic.

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International Festival of Contemporary Engraving of Trento 2023

22nd international print biennal Varna 2023

Exlibris Collection Museum in Malbork 2023

International Festival of Contemporary Engraving of Trento 2022

Grafein foundation fluitekruid 13 purmerend 2023

“Il Bisonte” in Florence 2023

Ninth International Mini Print Biennale Exhibition 2023

"Changing Worlds" Australia project 2023

Jaros³aw Skutnik was born in 1963 in Kropiwnica /Podlaskie Voivodeship/.

Studies:

1985-1990 – University of Silesia in Katowice, Art Institute in Cieszyn, 1988-1993 - State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznañ.

Since 1994 he has been working at the Art Institute at the Faculty of Arts in Cieszyn at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Currently, he runs classes in classical and experimental graphics and multimedia.

In his artistic work, he focuses on graphic arts, computer graphics, drawing, painting, and he also creates installations using experimental graphic techniques. In his creative activity, he looks for opportunities to combine traditional graphic techniques with new media. In the philosophy of artistic exploration, Skutnik focuses on the category of the matrix as the original idea, the beginning and the source of creation.

He is the author of classic graphic works and experimental activities presented at many domestic and foreign exhibitions.

The presented graphic works are a kind of artist's game with the matrix, which sometimes defines the reflected image; other times, it is a pretext to modify the print until it finally disappears, is destroyed, or obliterated, as in the graphics entitled In Memoriam.

In the In Memoriam works, on a piece of paper with dimensions corresponding to the format of catalogs dedicated to the work of deceased artists, the author reprinted the contents of individual catalogs page by page. The layered text and the reproductions of works permeating it created abstract compositions - specific forms of epitaphs.

Triptychs entitled City and Leaf-Letter are examples of using one matrix to make three different prints/images. This process is an attempt at an artistic break with the model meaning of the matrix and its classical use. Other works include classic relief prints and gravure prints.

Painter and graphic artist. Studied at Faculty of Graphics at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graphics department in Katowice, graduated in 2000, under supervision of professor Marian Oslislo from studio of graphic design and professor Roman Nowotarski, studio of painting.

Participant of exhibitions at home and abroad, incl.:

- FESTIWAL MALARSTWA

WSPÓ£CZESNEGO, Pomeranian

Dukes' Castle, Szczecin

- GRAND PRIX M£ODEJ GRAFIKI

POLSKIEJ, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków

- INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ART, NI Institute and Museum, Bitola

- TRIENNALE GRAFIKI POLSKIEJ, BWA

Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice

- POLISH EAGLES 2006, Young Polish Print in Seoul, Seoul

- Biennale Painting BIELSKA JESIEÑ, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Bia³a

Memories Fade Slowly

Our memories are like colourful postcards. With time, however, what was lively and vivid, starts fading away... It is getting harder to bring back details, places and times get confused. Everything dissolved in the haze. Soon, you can only go back to those wonderful moments, supposedly unforgettable, when watching old photos. My cycle represents just that. The starting point for each work is a colourful landscape, which is “destroyed” by subsequent layers of print. With progress of work the details vanish, colours fade away, and the original meaning disappears. New quality is created.

„Memories fade slowly I”, 70 x 100 cm , own technique

„Memories fade slowly II”, 70 x 100 cm , own technique

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice. She received a diploma with distinction in graphic design in 2000. In 2018, she defended her doctorate in the discipline of fine arts at the Institute of Art., University of Silesia in Katowice. Since 2017, she has been affiliated with the field of Game Design and Virtual Space in Cieszyn, University of Silesia, where she currently serves as the head of the department. She specializes in creating original picture books for children. In 2018, she founded the publishing house Dzika Ma³pa, which promotes the idea of picture books. Additionally, she is involved in poster design, typography, animation, and artistic graphics, particularly color linocut.

The theme of the matrix, imprint, print, and trace served as inspiration for creating a series of graphics that utilize geometric elements cut from a matrix, through which I created unique, one-time-only traces. I somewhat deconstructed the process of creating and printing graphics, where multiple similar but not identical prints are obtained from a single matrix. This time, the elements of the "matrix" change, and the final result in the form of the print is unique. I will employ the technique of color linocut to create three cycles of graphics, in which the main roles are played by the circle, triangle, and square. The theme of my works revolves around confinement and the attempt at liberation. I aimed to depict, in a symbolic manner, the emotions accompanying this process.

„Encirclement II/3”, 21 x 29 cm , linocut

„Encirclement I/4”, 21 x 29 cm , linocut

In 2020, she graduated with honors from the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Art Institute in Cieszyn, majoring in: Art Education in the Field of Fine Arts and Painting and Interdisciplinary Projects. Immediately after graduation, she assumed the position of an assistant at her alma mater (in the Workshop of Stained Glass and Artistic Glass).

From 2021 she has been continuing her education at the Academy of Fine Arts Eugeniusz Geppert in Wrocùaw in the field of Artistic Disciplines in Architecture. Her works have been displayed on numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad including The Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran, The United States, Australia.