The line duet, force relations between surfaces, angles, and planes, the warp of the image, all serve a special vision in the work named “Print Box I – Joy and Chasm”, a woodcut/embossing, belonging to the first prize winner Tomasz Kukawski from Poland. Inspired by the album of well-known Joy Division band, “Unknown Pleasures” the artist creates a system where the details support each other to be pointed out on the surface of the plastic frame. With all this abundance of details, the work is in fact synthetic, the basis of the composition consists of extended plans and simple divisions, in which the perspective deceives the eye. The symbolism of circles, of lines that seem to pulse along with the beatings of heart and music, draw attention to the meanings behind the layers but which record, cold, the passage of time. The Polish artist outlines a world in which the symbol stands out from the archetype and transmits, in the purest form, the artist’s vision and condition of life and its stages.

Maria Bilasevschi, Romania (2017)