Kamil Pieczykolan

The sense of being present in the reality is an issue, that disturbes me a lot.
There are so many interpretations and ways to experience "being". If there is "myself" at all, then how much of "myself" is needed to be part of surroundings? And then following this logic, how much of "myself" is needed to make a picture?

I used to try to draw forms, which could never exist in our dimension. A way of thinking similar to making up worlds constructed of nothing we experience in the world we live in. An entirely new concept. An alternative for space, light, everything. No physics, no languages or ways to speak, no sound, no volume, no living creatures, no space or colors, no travelling light. This process literally used to make me hurt.
When I think of something I simultaneously imagine circumstances that allow this ''something'' to exist, but how can I do that thinking of an object, which doesn't have shape, can't have it, can't exist, can't have weight and can't be made of atoms, can't even be an object in the first place. Must have nothing to do with our world and it's laws.
Going through those struggles I kinda accepted the impossibility of creating such a new environment, based on new laws – instead I developed commitment to l...

Kamil Pieczykolan, Poland. Born in 1988 in Zamość, Poland. Studied at The Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, graduated in 2016.

- group exhibition of teachers and graduates of The Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław entitled "XXL" - super large drawings, Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen, september 27 2016
- qualification for the exhibition of "Confrontation of Art" competition, Warsaw 2016
- qualification for the exhibition of IX International Biennal of Miniature Częstochowa 2016
- group exhibition of students of The Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław entitled "To Dresden To Dresden", Dresden, Oktogon Gallery, 19.04.2016
- IX International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2014
- International Student Figure Drawing Exhibition Figurama 2014
- 1st International Drawing Triennal for Students of Fine Arts Academies, Katowice 2014
- International Student Figure Drawing Exhibition in Figurama 2013
- VIII International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2012
- V International Drawing Competition, Wrocław 2012