Chwiszczuk Czesław
ac. prof. Czesław Chwiszczuk
Academic Supervisor of the Academic Group of SFERA Imaging Techniques
Chairman of the Social Benefit Fund Committee
Vice-Chairman of the Commission of the Solidarity Trade Union
Faculty of Graphics and Media Art
Department of Media Art
Photographic Imaging Techniques Studio
cch@asp.wroc.pl
zpafwrocław.pl
Subjects taught
Fundamentals of Photography
Imaging Techniques
Theory and Practice of Artistic Photography
Classic Photography Topics and Techniques
Filming Technologies – the field of Scenography
Photography Studio – the field of Photography and Multimedia
Doctoral seminar
In 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Cinematography and TV Production at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź. His works can be seen in the National Museum in Wrocław, the Museum of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, the Association of the International Graphic Art Triennial in Kraków, and the Wrocław City Museum.
I express myself artistically in photography, film and multimedia installations. Photography is my way of seeing the world, processing it in my own way. Since I realised that photography is not an objective message, I started working with many images to build my subjective reality; I try to give my pictures the illusion of perceived space. I am interested in man's relationship with nature, but also with nature that is much more difficult to grasp by means of the senses - the universe that surrounds us, implying phenomena that our mind can only grasp with the help of poetry. My photo-images are new entities, though brought into existence by the impulse of recording.
Awards and scholarships
2010 – Grand Prix and Gold Medal at the International Photography Confrontation Only One Photograph, Jarosław
2004 – Grand Prix at the 12th Biennial of Mountain Photography, Jelenia Góra
Individual exhibitions
2016 – Passengers within the Train to Art project, Runde Ecke Gallery, Dresden, Germany
2015 – Layers, FF Imaginarium Gallery, Łódź
2014 – Aspects of Seeing Glosa No. 2, presentation, MBWA, Town Hall, Leszno
2009 – Liberation of Memory – Interiorisations, Art Gallery, BWA Jelenia Góra
2006 – Algiers (Algeria), RACIM Gallery, the Embassy, Agadir, Morocco
2005 – The Eight, presentation, ZLAF Gedymnia Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; Old ZPAF Gallery, Warsaw
2004 – Breathless, the Lower Silesian Centre of Photography, Domek Romański, Wrocław
2001 – Cyfrografie, BWA – Design, Wrocław
2001 – At the Junction, Town Hall, Wrocław
1977 – Language of Photography, Wrocław Gallery of Photography, Wrocław
1993 – Waiting Room, hall of the railway station, Wrocław
1985 – Spaces, Old Gallery of ZPAF, Warsaw
1978 – Model, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery Wrocław
Publications
2010 – Zbigniew Horobowy, Polish-English monograph, 124 pages, published by Wrocławskie Środowisko Artystyczne, Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław
2008 – Krystyna Cybińska, Polish-English monograph, 124 pages, published by Wrocławskie Środowisko Artystyczne, Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław
2008 – Interiorisations, a bilingual catalogue of the author's works, 90 pages, published by Semata, co-published by BWA Jelenia Góra
2007 – Catalogue of the Collection of the National Museum in Wrocław. Photography. Polish-English catalogue, 442 pages, published by National Museum in Wrocław
1994 – The Phenomenon of Power. Process. Gyubal Wahazar. Faust, a trilingual Polish-English-German catalogue, 96 pages, published by Wrocław Puppet Theatre
1986 – Art of the Youth 1975-1980, album, 280 pages, published by M A W, Warsaw