Mikołaj Czyżowski 5 out of 10 - a track for five matrices and ten prints
supervisor:
prof. Krzysztof Tomalski
Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
Faculty of Graphics
Faculty of Graphics
biography
he lives and studies in Krakow. He is a graduate of a music school. Currently he is continuing his studies at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. In his work he likes to combine music with visual arts. He tries to approach art interdisciplinary. He is also interested in animation, illustration and UX Design.
The subject of the artwork refers to the graphic notions, i.e. the visual recording of the musical language. Graphic scores began to appear in the20th century with the advent of musical avant-garde and such compositional techniques as serialism and dodecaphony. The created work focuses on the analysis of common elements of visual and musical work. Dynamics, expression, rhythm and tonality are concepts that both the creators of plastic and music compositions use. When I create my matrices, I think of them as sounds or bars, from which I later arrange all the installations. By printingseveral matrices in different colors, I refer to polyphony, that is the sound of many sounds at one moment. As in the case of a song, I can use pauses and mute, or simply mix and my images, as do the creators of modern electronic music. By mixing and interpenetrating different works and sounds, a kind of music collage is created. Next graphics are like sounds issued by an instrument Or synthesizer, and depending on their placement in the entire installation, the combination resulting-from the use of color, or the application of another matrix, their meaning changes in the context of the whole composition. Thanks to the musical thinking about the artwork, I am not limited by the classic format or the number of prints needed to create the installation. It is accompanied by a soundtrack written by me, as a musical notation strictly based on a created graphic installation. In mywork, I try to act interdisciplinary by combining my two passions music and graphics. I try to find dependencies between them and ‘to translate’ sounds into graphic language using compositional techniques.