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The Reserve




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The Pilgrimage

DAYBREAK
2011
etching, aquatint, dry-point

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The Garden


    • Under the motto of the "Sun King", the Garden is captured as soon as our gaze falls upon it. The phenomenon of seeing is the same as possession: when we see something, simultaneously we feel that we gain it. Yet what happens when the image confronts us with an absence, loss, and emptiness, when the subject itself is precisely the essence of being absent? Once the phenomenon of seeing is linked to the question of being, what happens when, while looking, we feel the absence – when to see means to lose? The Greek word "paradeios" had two senses. The first was "garden." Only later in the Greek translation of the Old Testament did the word start to mean "the gardens of Eden," "the paradise." Through the Greeks, "hortus conclusus" came into the European tradition – a "limited walled garden" which came to symbolize paradise. 
    • When living in a Christian culture, it is difficult not to think about Paradise references even for a moment. The Paradise Garden works in the human consciousness as a place in which people once lived, but have since lost access to. The Garden became a symbol not only of eternal happiness, but also of humankind’s inexpressible longing and melancholia.

    THE WELL
    2009
    etching, aqiatint, dry point

    ARCADIA I
    2009
    aquatint

    THE LABYRINTH
    2009
    aquatint

    THE SPRING
    2009
    aquatint

    THE PASSAGE
    2010
    aquatint

    THE TOWER
    2010
    aquatint


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    Vivarium


    Vivarium III
    2008
    aquatint and dry-point
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    Behind the Curtain


    Behind the Curtain
    2009
    etching, aquatint and dry-point


    Mirror
    2008
    pen and ink on paper

    Mirror II
    2009
    pen and ink on paper
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    The Fountain

    The Fountain
    2009
    etching and aquatint

    drawings from portuguese sketchbook (2008):





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    The Pool

    THE POOL II
    2009
    aquatint

    THE POOL I
    2009
    etching, aquatint


    THE POOL III
    2009
    etching, aquatint
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    About

    Born in 1985 in Krakow, Poland
    2010-MFA at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow

    Major exhibitions:
    2011-3rd Guanlan International Print Biennial, Shenzhen, China
    2011- Eastern European Printmakers Today, Somerville, USA
    2011- Freegeneration, New Orleans, USA
    2010-Towards the Old Masters, Warsaw, Poland
    2009-Mobilidade, Porto, Portugal
    2008-Interprint, London, UK
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