About the artist

 
 

 

 

Slawomir chrystow

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I was born in Varna, Bulgaria on the Black Sea. From my earliest years, something irresistibly urged me towards drawing and I feel that this force paved the way and created the conditions for me to develop my craft.

I was very fortunate to meet two wonderful teachers who shaped me a great extent and to whom I owe the foundations of my artistic education. Gavrail Vichev and Yavor Tsanev; the former a linocut artist, the latter an outstanding painter and printmaker. It was they who prepared me for my studies, supported me spiritually and cheered on my aspirations.

In the years between 1996-2001, I studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland where in my second year I was assigned to the woodcut studio of Professor Zbigniew Lutomski. It was also there that I defended my dissertation. My studies did not end there, in fact, one could say that they merely began and continue to this day.

What some may call studying, to me, I understand as exploring those areas that fascinate, interest and delight me. Some of them are just a supplementary margin of my creative endeavours, such as my flirtation with calligraphy or marbling, while others, such as painting and printmaking, I have devoted myself to a much greater extent and continue to refine and learn from.

While I prefer to let my paintings and work speak for themselves, they are not meant to reflect me as their author but rather act as the example of the possibilities that stem from our common, creative source.

 

  • 1999 - International Printmaking BIennale, Varna , Bulgaria

    2001 - Exhibition of contemporary art " Necessary luxury in life" at the Cracow Philharmonic.

    - Biennale of Exlibris, Saint Niklaas, Netherlands

    2002 -Student printmaking workshop in Izmir, post-workshop exhibition Istanbul, Izmir, Turkey

    - Exhibition of students and graduates of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Young Gallery. Under the patronage of Gazeta Antykwaryczna.

    2003 - Biennale of Exlibris - Rijeka, Croatia.

    - Graphic exhibition " Black on white " Gallery ZPAP Sukiennice, Cracow

    2006 - Exhibition " From the graphic studio ZPAP, Pryzmat gallery, Cracow

    2011 - International Biennale " Small Graphic Forms" Lodz

    2012 - Exhibition of invited artists from Krakow - Tomaszowice, Art Meeting, under the theme " Travelling ".

    2015 - International printmaking competition " En Busca Del Paraiso Perdido ", Granada, Spain.

  • 1997 - exhibition of drawings at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Varna

    2003 - exhibition of linocuts in ZPAP Gallery in Sukiennice in Cracow

    2003 - exhibition of linocuts in the Museum of the History of Katowice

    2003 - Exhibition of linocuts in ZPAP Sukiennice Gallery, Cracow

    2008 - exhibition of drawings and watercolours in Nautilus Gallery in Cracow

    2008 - exhibition of graphical cycle of linocuts "Silesian Legends" in Opava, Czech Republic

    2011 - exhibition of linocuts at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice

    2014 - exhibition at Nautilus Gallery "Selected works from 2009-2014"

    2015 - exhibition of a series of 12 illustrations for "The Saragossa Manuscript" at the Potocki Palace in Łańcut

    2015 - exhibition of a series of 12 illustrations to the "Saragossa Manuscript" at the Royal Castle Library in Warsaw

    2015 - exhibition of a series of 12 illustrations to the "Saragossa Manuscript" at the Polish Library in Paris

    2016.- exhibition of a series of 12 illustrations to the "Saragossa Manuscript" at the Polish Embassy in Rome and at the Corso Polonia festival

    2021 - exhibition of paintings and prints at the Salon Connaisseur in Krakow

  • 2020 - Distinction in the NGM ( Best Graphic of the Month) competition in Krakow, Poland.

    2015 - Medal at the En Busca Del Paraiso Perdido graphic design competition in Granada, Spain

    2005 - Creative scholarship of the City of Cracow

    2005 - Grand Prix in the NGM ( Best Graphic of the Month) competition in Cracow

    2003 - Grand Prix in the NGM ( Best Graphic of the Month) competition in Cracow