Paweł Warchoł — graphics and drawings
Paweł Warchoł — a printmaker, born 1958 in Cracow. He studied at Katowice Faculty of Printmaking of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating from Prof. Stanisław Kluska print studio and Prof. Roman Nowotarski painting studio in 1984. At present he lives in Oświęcim, cultivating drawing, painting and publishing commercial design. He presented his works at 66 solo exhibitions in numerous places including Warsaw, Berlin, Münster, Barcelona, Žilina and many a time in Cracow, Katowice and Bielsko-Biała. He participated in over 300 group exhibitions at home and abroad, including all the important drawing biennials and triennials of the world. His works have been awarded more than thirty times, including three prizes awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
catalogue with Paweł Warchoł's drawings and graphics ‘Even though for many years he has cultivated painting, photography, printmaking, applied graphics and poster art, Paweł Warchoł is best known and well...
Epiphany begins always in the shadow of a scar
‘Even though for many years he has cultivated painting, photography, printmaking, applied graphics and poster art, Paweł Warchoł is best known and well appreciated in the world for his drawings. For him this medium has become a natural means of expression and the way of articulating his own seeing of the reality. He has presented his drawings at over 300 group and 50 solo exhibitions, what — taking his age into account– is quite a big achievement.
Paweł Warchoł’s works that have come into being during the past two decades can be grouped into several branched thematic and problem cycles. All of them are linked together by an unusual precision, perfect skills, and the desire to treat models — both those real and those phantasmagorical — in an illusionistic way. His drawings made with ink on carton are at the same time an exploration of what’s visible and what’s invisible. The three-dimensional effect and enormous reverence towards the detail could apparently indicate his designs for reproducing the ‘territory’ by means of a ‘map’. Such aspirations, of course, are not the case of Paweł Warchoł. Since the first presentation in public, his works have shown that he is an exceptionally mature artist, conscious of his medium, and perfectly knowing that such a kind of attempts is, in fact, foredoomed to failure. This is the reason why he doesn’t follow the route outlined by Hyperrealists. (…)’
Roman Lewandowski
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