Paweł Krzywdziak Luminance
supervisor:
prof. Krzysztof Tomalski
Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
Faculty of Graphics
Faculty of Graphics
biography
Born in 1989 in Katowice.
Graphic Arts graduate of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, diploma thesis accomplished in the Copper Engraving Studio. PhD student.
Assistant lecturer in the Lettering and Typography Studio of the home university.
Focused on printmaking and design, lives and works in Krakow.
The Luminance series engages a dialogue with the traditional printmaking workshop, in the context of contemporary media and visual strategies. The formal motive of the work is light and space, interpreted by the author's system of cross-hatching. Digital and generative transposition of drawing methods, used by engravers, allowed to show them in a new context, free of manual and dimensional restrictions. The images were hand-printed from 27 zinc and aluminum plates, made in etching, aquatint and drypoint techniques, preserving the spatial structure unique to intaglio techniques.
