Jacek Machowski

a.k.a. macha or machawishnu

A graphic designer who combines traditional printing techniques with modern media to create unique works of art. His works are characterized by a refined approach to form and color, which makes them both aesthetic and emotional.

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Mono no aware

Individual exhibition at BWA in Tarnów created together with Paweł Bińczycki. The exhibition presented several cycles. Macha presented the cycles Norma and Norma 2.0 and the title Mono no aware. Paweł presented one cycle Transitional Forms. The artists also presented the cycle Wabi-sabi, for which all works will be created together. The patronage over the exhibition was assumed by the Embassy of Japan in Poland and TVP Kultura (national cultural television) and the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology

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Demonstration of the mokuhanga technique

As part of the exhibition Hokusai. Wandering... I organized a demonstration of the mokuhanga printing technique. I have been dealing with the mokuhanga technique since 2019 as part of my doctoral thesis, although the first attempts at this technique date back to 2012.

This demonstration was to help visitors become aware of the technological process of creating woodblock prints in Japan. As part of this show, we distributed printed works to visitors.

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Population

A series of works examining the subject of diversity in repeatability. All prints were made from a single matrix, but by using an original printing technique (membrane printing), each print has an independent character. In such a case, we are not talking about a population of prints, not a series.

The work was presented at the ISP Gallery named after Prof. Włodzimierz Kotkowski at the time of the beginning of Russia's attack on Ukraine.

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Special S object +

Joint exhibition with Paweł Bińczycki at the Engram gallery in Katowice. The enigmatic title of the exhibition refers to a popular material for creating linoleum matrices – more precisely, it is Special S objected +. At the exhibition, we presented the various ways in which this material, which is a frequently used floor covering, can be used.

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About me

Born in 1983 in Rzeszów. Studies at the Faculty of Art of the University of Rzeszów. Bachelor's degree in 2012 in the field of graphics. Master's diploma in 2015 in workshop graphics - intaglio printing, under the supervision of Dr. Paweł Bińczycki and Dr. Marcin Jachym. In 2017 he obtained the qualification to teach in art schools, at the Center for Education of Art School Teachers in Warsaw. In the years 2016-2019 he taught at the Complex of Art Schools in Tarnów, 2019-2022 at the Complex of State Art Schools in Krakow. He received the title of tenured teacher in 2022. In 2019 he began studying at the Doctoral School of the University of Rzeszów, field: Fine arts and conservation of works of art. As part of his doctorate, he deals with Japanese woodcut (mokuhanga) and its adaptation. 2015 - 2022 he taught classes at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Rzeszów as part of commissioned hours. Since 2022 he has been working as an assistant at the Institute of Fine Arts, College of Humanities, University of Rzeszów, where he teaches intaglio printing techniques and interactive media. Organizer and leader of Japanese woodcut workshops. His works have been presented at over 100 exhibitions, he has received 6 awards and 6 distinctions.

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List of achievements

Group exhibition "11th International Triennale of Graphic Art 'Color in Graphics – Traces'", Wozownia Art Gallery in Toruń, Poland, 2024;
Group exhibition "Transgrafia 3.0", former Main Post Office building, Kraków, Poland, 2024;
Group exhibition "DS010803N, 803, 8.3.", artistic-research intervention of PhD students from UR and UKEN, University of Rzeszów Library, Poland, 2024;
Group exhibition "Energy of Form", Department of Graphic Art Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, UMK, Toruń, Poland, 2024;
Solo exhibition "Mono no aware, means beauty", Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland, 2024;
Group exhibition "Inheritance and Innovation: Mokuhanga and Washi. 2024 Juried Inter", Imadate Art Center, Echizen, Japan, 2024;
Presentation at the Conference "Cultural Studies and Social Communications: Innovation Strategies of Development", Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023;
Group exhibition "The 'IOSIF ISER' International Contemporary Engraving Biennial Exhibition", Prahova County Art Museum "Ion Ionescu-Quintus", with the support of the Prahova County Council, Ploiești, Romania, 2023;
Honorable mention on group exhibition "13th Polish Woodcut and Linocut Quadriennale", BWA Olsztyn, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "International Miniature Print Exhibition 2023", Awa Japanese Paper Museum, Tokushima, Japan, 2023;
Group exhibition "JPL", Gallery of the Institute of Fine Arts, Prof. Włodzimierz Kotkowski, Rzeszów, Poland, 2023;
Co-organization of the Conference "Japanese Inspirations in Graphic Art", University of Rzeszów, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "3rd International Biennial of Engraving and Sculpture – Celommi Prize 2023", Teramo, Italy, 2023;
Solo exhibition "Images of the Existing World", Black Woolf, Katowice, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "18th International Triennale of Small Graphic Forms, Poland – Łódź 2023", Willa Gallery, Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "8th TYPA Linocut Contest 2023 – 8th TYPA Linoolloike Contest", TYPA letterpress and paper art center, Estonia, 2023;
Group exhibition "12th International Exlibris Exhibition 'Flowers. Poets of the Earth'", Mikołaj Rej Public Library in Oleśnica, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "9th Salon BWA Tarnów 2023", BWA in Tarnów, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "28th International Biennale of Contemporary Exlibris", Castle Museum in Malbork, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "60th Anniversary of the Coronation of the Figure of Our Lady of Ludźmierz", Printing Museum in Nowy Targ, Poland, 2023;
Group exhibition "15th Józef Gielniak Graphic Competition", Karkonoskie Museum in Jelenia Góra, Poland, 2023, re-exhibition at the Textile Museum in Kamienna Góra;
Article summarizing research grant "Facsimile of Japanese Woodcut Using Digital Techniques for Creating Woodcut Matrices", University of Rzeszów Repository, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "Workshop Strategies", Main Gallery at Attavanti, Jarosław, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "Mountain Graphics – Geo. Transgraphic Migrations", BWA in Kielce, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland, 2022;
The 3rd prize on group exhibition "9th Exlibris Competition of Klemens Raczak", Raczyński Library, Poznań, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "IPC International Mini Print 2022", Teh-Chun Gallery, International Printmaking Center, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, 2022;
Group exhibition "#ISP' 25 – Exhibition of the Staff of the Institute of Fine Arts at UR", BWA in Rzeszów, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "5th International Ex-libris Competition Exhibition – Istanbul 2022", Istinye University Vadi Campus Istanbul, Turkey, 2022;
Group exhibition "New Prints Off the Block", Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, USA;
Group exhibition "Uşak Municipality 'Historical and Cultural Traces of Usak in its 100th Anniversary' International Exlibris Competition", Uşak Municipality Atatürk Culture Center, Uşak, Turkey, 2022;
Group exhibition "13th International Exlibris Competition Gliwice-Cieszyn 2022", Municipal Public Library in Gliwice, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "6th European International Book Art Biennale 2022", Karoly Castle Museum, Carei, Romania, 2022;
Group exhibition "12th International Miniature Biennale", Gaude Mater Cultural Promotion Center in Częstochowa, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "18th International Small Graphic Forms and Exlibris Competition Ostrów Wielkopolski 2022", Museum of the City of Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "7th Graphic Art Biennale of Szekerland", Transylvanian Art Center, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania, 2022;
Group exhibition "11th International Exlibris Exhibition 'Birds of the World. Sky Migrants'", Mikołaj Rej Public Library in Oleśnica, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "Aerowalk. Episode 2.0", HEINEKEN Global Shared Services, Kraków, Poland, 2022;
Solo exhibition "Special S Object +", Engram Gallery, Katowice Miasto Ogrodów, Katowice, Poland, 2022;
Group exhibition "National Sacred Art Competition OKSSa 2021", Concordia Design Wrocław, Poland, 2021;
Group exhibition "Sumi-Fusion: International Mokuhanga Exhibition", Nara Prefectural Cultural Hall, Nara, Japan, 2021;
Group exhibition "International Miniature Print Exhibition 2021", Awa Japanese Paper Museum, Tokushima, Japan, 2021;
Group exhibition "10th International Graphic Triennale 'Color in Graphics'", Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland, 2021;
Group exhibition "VIII BWA Tarnów Salon 2021", BWA in Tarnów, Poland, 2021;
Group exhibition "22nd Grenchen Triennale", Grenchen, Switzerland, 2021;
Group exhibition "2nd International Graphic Triennale", Cieszyn, Poland, 2021;
Group exhibition "15th International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point Uzice 2021", Užice City Gallery, Serbia, 2021;
Group exhibition "Chronicle of Contaminated Days" as part of "Krakers 2021", Jan Fejkiel Gallery, Kraków, Poland, 2021;
Group exhibition "Third International Print Biennale", The Museum of the National Centre for Aesthetics, Yerevan, Armenia, 2021;
Group exhibition "SPIRIT – Ex-libris Competition North Cyprus 2019", Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, North Cyprus, and the Silesian University in Katowice, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje", Skopje, North Macedonia, 2020;
The Andrzej Stelmasiewicz Award on group exhibition "10th International Competition for Small Graphic Forms", Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, Gdańsk, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "Bienala Internațională de Arte Miniaturale Timișoara 2020", Faculty of the Arts and Design, West University Timișoara, Romania, 2020;
Group exhibition "(P)ARTY HARD VOL. 2", CRZ Krzywy Komin, Wrocław, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "11th International Miniature Biennale", GAUDE MATER Gallery, Częstochowa Promotion Centre, with repeated presentations at Test Gallery, Warsaw, S. Staszic Museum in Piła, Zagłębia Culture Palace, Nowohuckie Cultural Centre in Kraków, BWA Tarnów, Brötzinger Gallery, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "17th International Triennale of Small Graphic Forms", Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "VII BWA Tarnów Salon", BWA Tarnów, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "4th International Printmaking Triennale", Belgrade, Serbia, 2020;
Group exhibition "6th Graphic Art Biennale of Szeklerland", Transylvanian Art Centre in Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania, 2020;
Group exhibition "27th International Contemporary Ex-libris Biennale", Malbork Castle, Poland, 2020.
Solo exhibition "Implications of Gravity", Jan Fejkiel Gallery, Kraków, Poland, 2020;
Group exhibition "Very Different and Very Good. Appendix", BWA in Tarnów, Poland, 2019;
Group exhibition "The 7th Guanlan International Print Biennale", China Printmaking Museum, Beijing, China, 2019;
Group exhibition "ExDigitalis Salon 2019", CSW Toruń, Poland, 2019;
Honorary award on group exhibition "Klemens Raczak Ex-libris Competition 2019 – 7th Edition", Raczyński Library, Poznań, Poland, 2019;
Group exhibition "Graphics: Rzeszów", Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland, 2019;
Group exhibition "'4th Exhibition from B to Z' – Exhibition of ZPSP Teachers in Kraków", 'Strug' Gallery, Zakopane, Poland, 2019;
Honorary mention on group exhibition "12th Polish Woodcut and Linocut Quadriennale", BWA Olsztyn, Poland, 2019;
Group exhibition "Bucharest International Print Biennale 2019", National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania, 2019;
Group exhibition "2019 Bio-Art Contest", B1F Seoul Citizens Hall, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 2019;
Group exhibition "Rzeszów Graphics", BWA Rzeszów, Poland, 2019;
Group exhibition "International Ex-libris and Small Printmaking Competition Sint-Niklaas 2019", Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 2019;
Award President of Tarnów City Award for "Outstanding Educational and Pedagogical Achievements", Tarnów, Poland, 2018;
Group exhibition "14th International Ex Libris Competition", Bulgaria, 2018;
Solo exhibition "Mono no Aware", BWA Tarnów, Poland, 2018;
Group exhibition "10th International Miniature Biennale", Poland, Germany, 2018;
Publication in the book "The Art of Printing", Send Points, China, 2018;
Distinction in the gallery supervised by Behance "Product Design", 2018;
Group exhibition "V Spring Salon 2017", BWA Tarnów, Poland, 2018;
Award from the Director of the ZSP School in Tarnów, Poland, 2017;
Group exhibition of Teachers from the Zespół Szkół Plastycznych in Tarnów, Poland, 2017;
Group exhibition "ExDigitalis", Contemporary Art Centre in Toruń, Poland, 2017;
Graphic Workshop Miskolc, Hungary, 2017;
Group exhibition "Women — Flowers — Women", Częstochowa, Poland;
Solo exhibition of Ex Libris, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling, Denmark;
Group exhibition "Seventh International Biennial of Mini-prints Tetovo 2016/17", Tetovo, North Macedonia, 2017;
Solo exhibition "Norma 2.0", Castle Gallery, Przemyśl, Poland;
Group exhibition "13th International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point Uzice 2017", Uzice, Serbia, 2017;
Group exhibition "VI International Ex-libris and Graphic Art Exhibition Czech Year", Oleśnica, Poland, 2017;
Group exhibition "Small Graphic Forms", Łódź, Poland, 2017;
Grand Prix Award at the group exhibition "IV Spring Salon 2017", BWA Tarnów, Poland, 2017;
Group exhibition "13th Edition — International Biennial of Engraving — Premio Acqui 2017", Alessandria, Italy, 2016;
Group exhibition "Small Visual Forms", Gallery R-Z, Rzeszów, Poland, 2016;
2nd Prize at the group exhibition "VII Klemens Raczak Ex-libris Competition", Poznań, Poland, 2016;
Group exhibition "9th International Miniature Biennale", Poland, Germany, 2016;
Group exhibition "16th International Biennale of Small Graphic Forms and Ex-libris", Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2016;
Commission to create graphics for the National Centre for Culture on the occasion of the "1050th Anniversary of the Baptism of Poland", Poland, 2016;
Group exhibition "11th International Ex-libris Graphic Competition", Gliwice, Poland, 2016;
Group exhibition "Jerzy Panka Competition 2015", Gallery of the Faculty of Art, University of Rzeszów, Poland, 2016;
Group exhibition "Diplomas 2015", City Gallery of ZSP in Rzeszów, Poland, 2016;
Publication in the book "Animal Graphics", SANDU Publishing, China, 2015;
Group exhibition "International Graphic Triennale in Kraków", Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland, 2015;
Honorable Mention at the group exhibition "12th International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point Uzice 2015", Uzice, Serbia, 2015;
Group exhibition "8th International Miniature Biennale", Poland, 2015;
Group exhibition "9th Student Graphic Biennale", AS Poznań, Poland, 2015;
Group exhibition "10th International Ex-libris Graphic Competition", Gliwice, Poland, 2014;
Group exhibition "14th European Biennial Competition for Graphic Art", Arentshuis, Belgium, 2014;
Group exhibition "Young Rzeszów Graphics", BWA Rzeszów, Poland, 2014;
Group exhibition "6th International Biennial Exhibition of Small Graphics Tetovo 2013", North Macedonia, 2013;
Group exhibition "7th International Miniature Biennale", Poland, Germany, 2013;
Organized and Curated "15×15", WBK Gallery, Rzeszów, Poland, 2013;
Group exhibition "Explorations", Pasaż Gallery, Iwonicz Zdrój, Poland, 2013;
Group exhibition "8th Student Graphic Biennale in Poznań", AS Poznań, Poland, 2013;
Group exhibition "Diplomas 2012", City Gallery of ZSP in Rzeszów, Poland, 2012;
Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements in the 2012/2013 academic year;
First Prize at the group exhibition "2012 – The End of the World", Olsztyn Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory, Poland, 2012;
Group exhibition "Exhibition of Many Arts", Institute of Music, University of Rzeszów, Poland, 2012;
Honorable Mention at the group exhibition "5th National Graphic Competition in Memory of Ludwig Meidner", Poland, 2012;
Group exhibition "Grand Prix of Young Polish Graphics", Kraków, Poland, 2012;
Group exhibition "11th International Ex-libris Graphic Competition", Poland, 2012;
Group exhibition "Ritual", Rzeszów, Poland, 2012;
Group exhibition "Lowe Through W", Rzeszów, Poland, 2012;
Honorable Mention at the group exhibition "4th National Graphic Competition in Memory of Ludwig Meidner", Poland, 2011;
Group exhibition "Materia Miasta", Rzeszów, Poland, 2011;
Honorable Mention at the group exhibition "10th International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point Uzice 2011", Uzice, Serbia, 2011;
Group exhibition "Fish", Municipal Culture Stadium, Rzeszów, Poland, 2011;
Group exhibition "2nd Gdynia Graphic Review on Sports Themes", Gdynia, Poland, 2011;
Group exhibition "Who Needs a Master?", Rzeszów, Poland, 2011;
Group exhibition "Space", Rzeszów, Poland, 2010.