Piotr Kolanko

Lives and works in Kraków, Poland

Artist statement

PIOTR KOLANKO 1987 r. Born in Jasło Master of Art 2013 r. WSUR Master of Graphic 2017 r. ASP Kraków I employ primordial forms to tell stories of the inmost nooks and crannies of the human psyche. Our minds carry records of early days of civilisation, entire sketches of how our consciousness has transformed. In his very nature, man has the potential to reach for the transcendent, to lose himself in material empiricism. Such are the scales whereon the perennial path to cognition evolves. I bring content as timeless as it is universal to all sentient human beings. Our knowledge of man and his capacities is amazingly humble when held against our technological development. I thus decided to follow the goal of attempting to even out all opportunities, the effort astoundingly essential in times of omnipresent fear of a catastrophic future. Aforementioned existential fear may only be replaced with strength we manage to find within ourselves. In today’s world, man is defined by his possessions rather than by what he feels or comprehends. On such level, we are incapable of developing any kind of permanent identity – while as a civilisation, we become exposed to multiple options of stimulation by new external attractors. Given today’s geopolitical issues, such circumstances are dangerous, to say the least. I harbour a modicum of hope that my artistic and research work will be conducive to expanding human consciousness, and thus affecting the human condition in our universe, however...

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