Kajetan Karczewski Ark
supervisor:
prof. Piotr Szurek
University of the Arts Poznan
Faculty of Graphic Arts and Visual Communication
Faculty of Graphic Arts and Visual Communication
biography
Born in 1994 in Houston (TX).
In 2013, he began studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Visual Communication of the University of Arts in Poznań (specialization in Printmaking). In 2018, he defended his Master's Diploma - 'Ark' in Gravure Printing studio. He was supervised by prof. Piotr Szurek.
He currently lives and works in Poznań. He continues his career creating graphics, drawings, paintings and tattooing. During his five-year studies, each year he was rewarded with scholarship for the best students of the University of Arts in Poznań. He takes part in numerous group and individual exhibitions.
The series of works reflects life events - the artist's journey to Sri Lanka and wandering along the seaside. Growing up watching his father-surgery doctor’s fight against the physical disabilities of a human being.
The gravure prints reflected on canvases depict elements of a boat found on the seashore.
On each of them, one can find the reflection of diseased human organs which were removed during surgeries.
Two distinct deconstructions that, when compared with each other, give us a new meaning. On the one hand, a boat wreck, as a result of a catastrophe. On the other, elements of the human body that prevent from functioning.
