Jan PAMULA (1944 - 2022), Image 4; 2008

digital graphics, paper: 67 x 83 in st. frame: 81 x 101 cm
sign. dated described at the bottom in pencil: 2008 - Image 4 gda - 2008/ A. P. Jan Pamuła
Provenance: private collection Cracow

Graphic artist, painter, professor and rector of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1980 he was a scholarship holder of the French Government and in 1982 of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. He taught at the Art Department of the New York Institute of Technology in New York as well as at the State University of Connecticut in Storrs. Member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers and the Cracow Group, as well as the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of more than 100 solo exhibitions at home and abroad, took part in numerous group exhibitions. Curator of graphic art exhibitions and art promoter in Poland, China, Korea, Japan, Russia... His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow, the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, the Museum in Bochum, the Mondrian Museum in Amersfoort, the Cinese Museum of Graphics in Shenzhen, The William Benton Museum of Art. in Storrs, among others. He has received many awards and decorations including: Distinguished and Gold Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis, Grand Prix d'Honneur of the International Triennale of Graphic Arts in the 2021 edition.
"The fragility of art is the same as the fragility of human life. Its permanence is based on memory. In a material sense, art-and even art such as a sculpture cast in bronze-is far from permanent; it decays, crumbles and decays over time. However, there is something that, as spirit, is contained in works of art, and this is more durable than anything. This stays in human memory and gives art immortality. If a work of art has this value, spiritual value, it lasts (...)"
- Jan Pamula