Enlargements — meeting at the exhibition of photographs by Piotr Zatorski

@

On October 16, 2026, at 18:00 at the Oświęcim Cultural Center, a meeting will take place at the exhibition of photographs by Piotr Zatorski entitled “Enlargements”.

The exhibition will be presented from 6 to 28 October 2026.

“The surrounding reality does not spare us the wealth of static or moving images. We live in an age of visual communication culture on the screens of a variety of devices. Promotion, advertising, visual message tries to interest, make something aware, arouse certain emotions, focus our attention or awaken the desire to possess.

Where a single image can supposedly replace a thousand words, the modern ease of generating it is increasingly conducive to this form of communication at different levels.

The author's photographs in the MAGNIFICATION in the idea cycle were created as a form of author's view of a specific object from the perspective of the micro world, an optically enlarged and naturally deformed image. The composition and juxtaposition of photographic images revealed to me mutually complementary layouts of photographs forming a formally coherent whole with a somewhat surreal expression.

In the creative process, the object of my observations became arranged micro-scenes, where the main role is played by the object in frontal view. I began to see the meaning of following this path with the aid of an optical instrument, like a voyeur through a keyhole, who seems to be unwittingly discovering some secret. I observed surprising compositions, light or expressiveness of changing forms and shapes. During this process, I realized that it is not so much the theme itself that is important as the way it is recorded and the associated sensations that create the final result.

Within this deliberately provoked focus and blur of images, a photographic story unfolds, which can be attributed to the words of the French painter and graphic artist Odilon Redon: although the necessary starting point is the reality seen, the real art is in the reality felt.

Perhaps it was curiosity in showing personal emotions and aesthetic sensations that became the pretext for creating the photographic cycle ENLARGEMENT, as an experimental laboratory of associations and subconscious symbols.”

/Piotr Zatorski/

Piotr Zatorski — born in Będzin, graduated from the State High School of Fine Arts in Dąbrowa Górnicza and the Faculty of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, graduated in graphic design in the studio of Prof. J. J. Aleksiun in 1997.

He expresses himself creatively through drawing, workshop graphics, painting and photography. Professional art therapist, occupational therapist and teacher in special education. Co-founder of the photo group KOŃ TROJAŃSKI (exhibitions, happenings, publications), which has been operating for many years in Będzin.

In 2006 — 18 co-founder and vice-president of the Association for the Support of Creative Activities VIA ARTE (cultural animation, artistic projects, Trojan Horse photo group).

Two-time winner of the Award of the City of Będzin and Distinctions for achievements in the field of artistic creativity and dissemination of culture.

Laureate of the Creative Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2009

Honorary Diploma of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kiev.

Member of the International Graphic Triennial Association in Krakow.

Participant of many painting and photographic outdoor events in Poland and abroad

Works in collections min. :

Japan, Tokyo, MUSASHINO, Book Art. “12 and 1 selection of fairy tales”

Russia, Yekaterinburg Museum of Art

Museum of Art Book in Łódź

Satiricon in Legnica and the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw

SMTG in Krakow

National Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kiev

Selection of exhibitions, competitions, art reviews:

1996 — Cuprum VII — International Biennial of Graphics, Lubin
1997 — 7th International Biennial of Small Graphic Form and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski
1997 — Dante in Poland, competition, exhibition (first prize for graphics), ZPAP Gallery Warsaw
1998 — 5th National Exhibition of Illustrations and Art Books, Warsaw
1999 — Ekslibris Ślężański and Small Graphic Forms, competition, (award for a set of graphics), Regional Museum in Sobotka near Wrocław
2000 — Galeria na Antresoli, individual graphic exhibition, Wrocław
2001 — Galeria pod Plafonem, solo exhibition of painting and graphics, Wrocław
2001, 2003 — Bartkowiak Forum Book Art, book graphics presentation, Hamburg, Germany
2002 — Galeria pod Sowa, individual exhibition of painting and graphics, Będzin
2003 — Lychakov Impressions, photography exhibition, Palace of Art, Lviv, Ukraine
2004 — Autumn Salon, international art review, Lviv
2005 — SDK ODEON Gallery, individual exhibition of drawings and graphics, Czeladź
2006 — International Triennial of Young Graphic Arts, Cracow
2008 — International Exhibition SATYRYKON, (distinction). Legnica
2008 — Graphics in Maniere Noire, collective presentation of graphics in mezzotint technique, Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Wrocław
2008 — Closer landscape, further, individual exhibition of graphics, painting and photography, Zagłębie Museum in Będzin
2009 — Polish Art Book from the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries (series of collective exhibitions in Poland and around the world).
2009 — International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia.
2010 — Reflections of Wrocław — individual exhibition of graphics, Galeria Wrocławska in Wrocław.
2010 — Graphics, individual exhibition in the gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
2011 — Mezzotint Festival, exhibition — competition, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2011 — Polish Art Book from the turn of the XX/XXI century, exhibition — Musashino University Of Art in Tokyo, Japan
2013 — Second International Mezzotint Festival, exhibition, competition, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2013 — Photography Festival, group exhibition of Trojan Horse Photo Group, Levice, Slovakia
2013 — International Art Open-Air Shwedt/Oder, exhibition, catalogue, Germany
2014 — Manufaktura Satyry, satirical drawing competition (distinction and award of the Culture Center in Żyrardów), Żyrardów
2014 — “10 years — Trojan Horse and friends”, art photography exhibition, Zagłębie Museum in Będzin
2015 — Photography Days in Levice, individual photography exhibition as part of the photography festival, Levice, Slovakia
2015 — Manufaktura Satiry, satirical drawing competition (3rd place), Żyrardów
2017 — Nowa Avangarda, a review of contemporary art, Galeria Szyb Wilson in Katowice
2018 — 6th graphic exhibition of SMTG Members in Krakow
2020 — Requiem, Poplener exhibition, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv
2020 —Mirror of Focus, individual art photography exhibition, Elektrownia Gallery in Czeladz
2021 — Enlargements, individual exhibition of artistic photography, Triangle Gallery in Kole, Schoen Palace Museum in Sosnowiec

Add to Calendar

Google Calendar

iCalendar

Outlook 365

Outlook Live