Andrzej Rułka

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In creating my linocuts, I aimed to transform elements of Japanese art into my own, original style, similar to what Hokusai did. The series of graphics titled "Japanese" consists of 15 linocuts. I discovered that I wanted to express myself in this printmaking technique. After a long time of cutting, I realized that, in addition to the conceptual aspect derived from the mind, I had to take into account the visual aspect. It is through the eye that a successful linocut is born. Control and attentiveness are crucial. There is rhythm, there is time that allows space for thinking and cutting. The struggles with printmaking,

the methods developed over months for correct printing, are essential to ensure that the graphic is clean and contrasty.

The set of fourteen graphics titled "Japanese" is holistically connected because it served as inspiration for specific woodcuts by Hokusai. "Japanese" is the keyword, the Polish Mr. Cogito, an inspiration from Japanese art, a fascination with literature and cinema.

"In Japan, man is an integral part of nature. He is neither better nor larger nor wiser than it. He is simply one of its numerous elements, like a tree, water, an animal, like a bird."

Andrzej Rułka – Born in 1973 in Puławy. He graduated from the Graphic Arts Department at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Krakow, receiving a diploma with honors in intaglio printmaking from Professor Andrzej Pietsch's studio. In 2013, he completed his doctoral studies at the Krakow ASP

in the Animated Film studio under the supervision of Professor Jerzy Kucia in the Graphic Arts Department. He received a scholarship in Germany in Frankfurt on the Main (1998) and in Finland

at the University of Arts in Turku (1999). He participated in exhibitions of Rzeszów artists in Belgium, Greece, and Lithuania in 2009. He is involved in painting, graphics, and animated film. He is a member of the Association of Animated, Experimental, and Video Film Creators "STUDIO A" and

the International Graphic Triennial Association in Krakow. He worked at the University of Rzeszów

in the Faculty of Arts from 2006 to 2012. Currently, he works at the State Academy of Applied Sciences in the Institute of Design Arts in Przemyśl. In the Phototechnics course at ZSE in Rzeszów, he teaches vocational subjects. He has organized many solo exhibitions and participated in around 240 group exhibitions.