ANDRZEJ KASPRZAK
Andrzej Kasprzak was born in Gliwice, Poland, in 1963. He is a printmaker, painter and sculpturer. He studied at the Print Department of Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He graduated with distinction of the Rector of the Academy in 1988. He was rewarded with scholarship of the Silesian-Dąbrowski Committee of the Idependant Culture for his artistic debut in 1988.
Scholarships and exhibitions:
Art Scholarship of the Ministry of Art and Culture, Warsaw, 1989 and 1999; scholarship of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, 1994; scholarship of the International Print Center "Frans Masereel Center", Kasterlee in Belgium 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, USA, Holland and Denmark. He has been rewarded with a dozen or so prizes and distinctions on Polish and international print competitions.
Works in national and public collections :
National Museum in Gdansk, Poland; Silesian Museum in Katowice, Poland; Del Bello Gallery in Toronto, Canada; Centaur Gallery in London; The Polish Museum of America in Chicago; I.G.C.P. Gallery in Philadelphia; Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan; Frans Masereel Center Collection in Kasterlee, Belgium; Memory Art Collection in Brussels, Belgium; Artoteque of Museum in Chambery, France; Taler Fort Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; Young Art Museum in Frankfurt am Oder, Germany; The Brzezinski Art Collection, U.S.A.
Artist about his work:
I practise graphic arts in such techniques as etching, dry point and aquatint with collage. I also practise painting using the techniques of oil and acrylic paints on canvas, gouache and watercolour on paper - on the ground of multi-texture collage of canvas, old letters, documents, varied multicoloured cardboard and paper.
If I were to name the style I represent in modern fine arts, I would describe it as soft and abstract figuration. My art is a never-ending story about the form and emotional state of modern man. This is an attempt to create a universal world of own emotions, experiences and feelings. This is an unending attempt to come up to the ideal, the absolute, to find the answer to the eternal questions. This is the eternal longing to be better than oneself.