Aqualung

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Weight2 kg
Medium

workshop lithography

Edition

2/10

Year

2020

Dimensions

70 x 100 cm

Signature

2/10, Aqualung, Piotr Panasiewicz

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Aqualung – Jacques Custo, the great explorer of the sea depths, decided to adapt man permanently in the deep sea. It may be laughable now, but in the 1950s during the Cold War era it was a serious project that brought together many enthusiasts. Fortunately, humanity chose another direction, it was space.

Workshop lithograph made in the traditional lithographic stone print technique on Hahnemuhle 220 gram cream paper

Excerpt from an interview with the artist

Reporter: Well, yes, but nowadays, when we have computers at our disposal, almost perfect printing, this is prehistory. Such an anachronism. We don’t have to polish the stone, we have modern printers.

Piotr Panasiewicz: Except that it is not the same. It’s like driving an alpha romeo spider from the 1970s down the road. You feel every breath of this car. Every touch of the gas, the opening of the throttle, the air wheezing in the engine, the rasp of the gearbox, the wooden steering wheel. In a modern car you are all encased in plastic and hear nothing. Of course there is comfort, quality. I rather appreciate what is closer to a person. Lithography, despite appearances, is unmistakable. Because the same works printed digitally and from stone, however, there is a difference. For me, huge. I treat lithography as a kind of painting. Of the graphic techniques, this is the form closest to painting. She transfers all these painterly feelings to stone. Lithography was also highly regarded by painters. It was cultivated by Renoir, Matisse, Munch, Chagall, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec. And of the Poles, for example, Wyspianski or Wyczółkowski. Letters by Karol Frycz, a painter and prominent stage designer, have survived in which he wrote that lithography set him painting. Lithography makes it so that you have to limit the number of colors. Of course, mixing them gives further colors. But handling basic colors teaches that sometimes sparing art and focusing on form, teaches a new perspective. Wyczółkowski wrote that for him lithography was a very valuable stimulus.

Piotr Panasewicz

Piotr Panasiewicz

He was born in 1963. Cracow. Studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Cracow University of Technology (1982-84). Studied at the Faculty of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1985-91). Diploma in the Lithography Studio with prof. Roman Zygulski. Since 1990, he has been working in the Lithography Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he is the head. He works in printmaking, as well as painting and design graphics. He has held lithographic scholarships in Paris and Leipzig.

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