KRZYSZTOF MOLENDA

Professor Molenda runs the Publishing Studio at the University of Arts in Poznań and leads classes in Advertising Graphics at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He defended his diploma in graphics in 1984 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (currently the University of Arts in Poznań). He works with traditional graphics - mainly woodcut, linocut and metal techniques - as well as graphic design and has recently rediscovered painting.

"I treat my works as a notation, a trace in which the content is inscribed in a natural and intuitive information from the emotional and physical environment. They contain a synthesis of the feeling of space, time, own presence, workshop and material. I think that every visual performance includes the reality of our surrounding and its phenomena, and although it is often far from the image source and experience, it remains connected with this reality. Often individual experiences open up new possibilities, a new path and a sudden irrational impulse, material or workshop inspiration. Often what happens outside the mind, intellectual and formal speculation is the value of work, both for the author and the recipient".

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Photos: Agnieszka Bereta