Hanna Haska (1952), Wall III, graphic, own technique, digital print, giclee, author's print a/1, 50x100 cm, 2005.
Artwork information: Hanna Haska (1952), Wall III, printmaking, in-house technique, digital print, giclee, author's print a/1, 50x100 cm, 2005. The Wall III print comes from the portfolio Pataphysics - Builder and is made using in-house technique, digital print, giclee, using archival ink on canvas. The work is signed. Framed under glass in a frame. The artist creates series of prints included in portfolios. Hanna Haska's graphics are a story about civilization, without division into cultures or civilization circles. They talk about man, his nature, his possibilities and limitations, the metaphysics and physics of existence. They are full of symbols already in existence, used in their existing meanings, but also given new meanings by the artist. The naturalism of the representations is illusory, for the world of the artist's imagination is undoubtedly a symbolic-surreal world suspended between the past and the future. In addition to the intellectual message, Hanna Haska's prints have the nobility of printmaking and the solemnity that characterizes old engravings. The artist has been present on the art market for many years, represented by Galeria Kościelak. Works from this series were presented, among others, at the Warsaw Art Fair in the 2021 and 2022 editions are in many private collections.
Hanna Krulikowska a.k.a. Hanna Haska (1952) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1976. She studied printmaking (lithography and serigraphy) and graphic design (poster) under Prof. Henryk Tomaszewski. In the 1980s and 1990s she lived and worked in exile in the USA and Canada. She continued her education there: Designing with Macintosh at the Kansas City Art Institute, USA and Multimedia at the Digital Media Studio at the University of Toronto, Canada. She designed applied graphics for American and Canadian companies. In exile, she created her own style, in which she combines the experience of printmaking with digital graphics. She creates a graphic-painting space by reaching for archival references, the axis of which is identity motifs in the context of civilizational changes. He realizes his graphics with the help of a digital workshop - giclée printing. In 2005, Richard Noyce, chairman of the jury of the International Triennial of Printmaking in Cracow, selected her works for the album Graphics on the Edge presenting 45 graphic artists from around the world whose innovative approach pushes the boundaries of the medium. After 2002, the artist focused on fine art printmaking abandoning applied design. She has presented her works in over 100 solo and group exhibitions including: the European Parliament in Brussels, the Yavitz Center in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo. Awarded among others: Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Culture in Network (2020), honorable mention in the national competition Warsaw Landscape (Warsaw 2014). Her work was awarded the gold medal of the Canadian Association of Graphic Artists CAPIC, Canada (1999). The artist's graphics won the Art Olympics competition and were presented at the exhibition accompanying the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Hanna Haska's printmaking also won third place in the World Renaissance Art Competition at Kobe City Museum in Japan in 2005. In 2006, she was the recipient of a scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her prints are in museum and private collections in many countries. Hanna Haska's work is represented by Koscielak Gallery.