Krzysztof Molenda

Krzysztof Molenda

Born 13 September 1959 in Połczyn Zdrój, he attended the Visual Arts Secondary School in Poznań. He went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He received his diploma in 1984 while at Prof. Tadeusz Jackowski’s Metal Techniques Studio. He is a professor at the Faculty of Graphic Art of the Poznań University of Arts. He runs the Publication Studio and teaches classes in Print Preparation. He is interested in graphic design and printmaking.

I treat my works as a record, a trace, in which information from the emotional and physical environment is inscribed in a natural and intuitive manner. It contains a synthesis of my perception of space, time and my own presence. I think that each visual representation contains in it the actuality of the surrounding reality and its phenomena. And although it may be distant from the source image and experience, it remains associated with that actuality. Often, these individual experiences open up new possibilities, new roads. They result from searching, striving and planning but also from accidental events; from unchanging fascinations or a sudden irrational impulse; from being inspired by a material or a technique.
Often, what happens outside of an idea, outside of the intellectual and formal speculation, decides the value of a work, both for the author and for the viewer.