Dariusz Kaca
Kutno, Poland
About Dariusz Kaca
I am definitely hothead classical relief printing techniques and all my work I do myself, piece by piece from beginning to the end. I attach great importance to the quality of both artistic and technical work, that's why I print on the best precious papers and use the best paints.
Born in 1960 in Kutno (Poland). Since 2010 working as professor and Head Studio of Woodcut Techniques and Artistic Book at Strzeminski Academy Fine Arts in Łódź. He has received international distinctions and prizes for printmaking and artistic books.
“...Pursues artistic and design graphics, artistic book and painting. In artistic graphics he is well known for his mono and multi-plate colour prints. Kaca’s works are concerned with responsibility of form and the visual shape of the wide range of contents; although it may seem to be a paradox, this creation is open in its contents and various interpretations, and, at the same time, closed in form, as it is logical and calculated in details”.
“…The space of the images is gleaming with thousands of stars, milky ways crisscrossing the Sky, spinning planets, beaming suns. It is the world of inexhaustible power, the world of the beginning and the end of the matter, it’s weakening and consolidation. The forms appear and vibrate, or they perish in the abyss of black holes. The sun explodes and radiates with energy. Everything pulsates, goes away and gets closer-a space whirl is created where everything comes to existence, lives and passes away. The universal harmony gets the measure of mysticism.
…The statement that in penetrating the spiritual space it is more important to travel through it, to face the mystery than to achieve the ultimate cognition and to reach the end – seems to be a cliché. What can this journey be like? The spiritual journey to a sanctuary is a pilgrimage. The motivation to go on a journey is based o the awareness of transcendence, confirmed by everyday miracles of existence, even those of the lowest rank. The road is delineated by the Milky Way. Thus the search for direction has a vertical dimension here. Thanks to a discovered sign - post we are not travellers lost in the labyrinth but the ones who, going deep to mystery, broaden their awareness in that search. Each artistic act is such pursuit of the axis of the world. In Dariusz Kaca’s work the Earth unites with Heaven not only physically, but also in imagery motives. The artist draws line bridging the gap between the elements of microcosm and macrocosm, the earthly existence rises - in the mythological language - towards things that are unattainable and for reason longed-for …”
From catalogue “Graficzny obraz nieba” by Dariusz Lesnikowski. Galery AMCOR, Łódź 2012
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Dariusz Kaca
Education:
MFA - 1994 Strzeminski Academy Fine Arts in Łódź.
Doctorate - 2000; Dr. hab. - 2005; 2011 Professor;
2017 Full Professor
Events:
My participation in the collective exhibition:
- 3rd Jogja International Miniprint Biennale (JIMB) 2018. Jakarta, Thailand. Catalogue
Selection of activity:
Residential stay in 5th Festival Printmaking in Evora, 2011 Evora, Portugal.
Participated in International Workshop of Traditional Japanese Woodcut,
Nagasawa ̶ 2004, in Ist Mokuhanga International Conference, Kyoto - 2011
and IInd Mokuhanga International Conference, Tokyo – 2013
Exhibitions:
He has had 37 individual shows and has taken part in more than 290 collective national and international exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Works in public collections:
National Library in Warsaw, Poland
Tama Art University Museum in Tokyo, Japan
University Library in Lodz, Poland
District Museum in Jelenia Gora, Poland
Stanford University Library, USA
“Forum Book Art” Archive in Hamburg, Germany
CAA Printmaking Resource Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
District and Town Library in Wroclaw, Poland
Regional Museum in Kutno, Poland
The King St. Stephen Museum in Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Florean Museum in Carbunari, Romania
Vilnius Centre of Graphics in Vilnius, Lietuva
Town Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
Taller Galeria Fort in Cadaques, Spain
Silpakorn University Library in Bangkok, Thailand
Mazowian Center Contemporary Art in Radom, Poland
Beijing Natural Culture Centre in Beijing, China
KAUS in Urbino, Italy
Museum of Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland
Regional Museum in Pyzdry, Poland
PEARS Archive at North Dakota State University in Fargo, USA
Montana State University School of Art in Bozeman, Montana, USA
L.Wyczolkowski's District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Artistic Book Museum in Lodz, Poland
Museum of the Gallery of Drawings in Skopje, Macedonia
Musashino University Museum in Tokyo, Japan
Cultural Konfraternia in Olesnica, Poland
Muzeum Karkonoskiego in Jelenia Gora, Poland
Permanent Collection R.F.Brush Gallery St. Lawrence University in Canton, USA
Burro of Artistic Exhibitions in Pila, Poland
