Past and Future – the artist has vacationed in Yugoslavia many times, and recalls his childhood days from the 1970s. Strange buildings remain from the Tito era, monuments to socialist Yugoslavia. Today they are deteriorating, abandoned and neglected, growing into the landscape. They are remnants of a bygone era.<\/p>\n
Workshop lithograph made in the traditional lithographic stone print technique on Hahnemuhle 220 gram cream paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Excerpt from an interview with the artist<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Reporter<\/em>: 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.<\/p>\n Piotr Panasiewicz<\/em>: Except that it is not the same thing. 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 Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski. 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. Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski wrote that for him lithography was a very valuable stimulus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14616,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1558,1565],"product_tag":[1567],"artysta":[1960],"class_list":["post-15886","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-graphics","product_cat-piotr-panasiewicz-en","product_tag-piotr-panasiewicz-en","artysta-piotr-panasiewicz-en","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n