PATA - Summer Courses 2025

GRAPHIC DIVERSITY IN LITHOGRAPHY AND INTAGLIO

The course is based on two types of graphic techniques: lithography and intaglio. Each technique may be applied individually or in connection with others. There will be a possibility of creating works in black and white or in colour. The general aim of the course held in the graphic studios is to develop and shape an individual artistic language by each participant. Both individual reviews and group workshops will be included in the programme. Short practical presentations will introduce technological issues of each of the chosen techniques. The choice will be adjusted to participants’ interests and needs. All artistic attitudes will be respected.
Participants will have access to professional equipment required by each of the offered techniques. Participants will have an opportunity to get acquainted with different aspects of intaglio techniques such as drypoint, mezzotint and copper engraving as well as etching techniques such as etching, aquatint, sugar lift or soft ground. The proposed lithography techniques include: stone lithography made with a crayon or ink, bitumen of Judea, xerox transfer and shellac varnish and a modern method comprising an acrylic-polyester plate which allows involving digital graphics in the process of preparing the plate. There will be also a presentation of the technique of ferrography which is still developed at the Academy in Łódź. There will be a possibility of combining techniques and applying experimental actions.
It is expected that the starting point for the prints will be drawings or paintings. Therefore, it is recommended that participants should present their earlier works or create new drawings or paintings during the course.

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Teachers

TOMASZ MATCZAK PhD - Associate Professor at the Lithography Techniques Studio

Tomasz Matczak was born in 1977 in Łódź, Poland. Between 1997 - 2002 he studied at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2003 he got his diploma at the Studio of Lithographic Techniques at the same academy. Since 2004 teacher’s assistant at Professor Witold Warzywoda’s Studio of Lithographic Techniques. In 2014 he received the degree of doctor of art (PhD).

He is the author of 8 personal exhibitions in Poland and in The Netherlands. He specializes in lithography and digital print. He participated in over 70 national and international group exhibitions of printmaking in Poland and abroad, among others in Urbino, Kochi, Sarcelles-Val, Varna, Yokosuka, Edmonton, Ostrava and Vernon.

He is a participant in numerous print conferences. He conducts research on extending the possibilities of planographic print, among others on the use of polyester plates or on the ferrography technique using iron plates and on the non-toxic methods of creating lithographic matrices.

Since 2013 teacher of the International Summer Courses PATA held in Łódź, first as an assistant and since 2016 running his course entitled “Graphic Diversity”.

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Tomasz Matczak

OSKAR GORZKIEWICZ Assistant

Born in 1988 in Koluszki, Poland. Graduate of the Tadeusz Makowski Art High School in Łódź. He was awarded Bachelors degree at the Faculty of Architecture of Textile on Technical University of Łódź. Between 2009 and 2014 and studied at the Department of Graphics and Painting of the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. In September 2014 he got a diploma in the Studio of Intaglio Techniques headed by Professor Krzysztof Wawrzyniak. In 2012 and 2013 he participated in International Printmaking Symposium at the International Centre for Artistic Engraving KAUS In Urbino in Italy. In 2013 he took artistic residency at GEDOK Association in Stuttgart in Germany. After graduation since 2014 he was teacher’s assistant at the Department of Graphics and Painting and at the International Summer Courses - Printmaking and Textile Art held at the Academy in Łódź. In 2015 hes began to PhD studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Currently he is teacher’s assistant at Intaglio Techniques Studio headed by Professor Alicja Habisiak-Matczak. Participant of numerous international print exhibitions in Brasil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and USA. Author of 6 individual exhibitions in Poland an Germany. Winner of many awards, among other winner of the second Prize at the 44th Intrnational Print Award Carmen Arozena, 2016 in Madrid, Spain and Distinction of the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation, 2017 in Warsaw, Poland.
oskargorzkiewicz@gmail.com