Hanna Haska (1952), Reclaiming Space II, portfolio Pataphysics - Spaces of Culture, printmaking own technique, digital print, giclee, author's print a/I, archival inks, HP Hahnemuhle textured fine art 310 g/m2 paper, 30x30 cm, 2010.
About the work:Hanna Haska (1952), Reclaiming Space II, 30x30 cm, 2010 The graphic Reclaiming Space II is made using the author's own technique, digital print, giclee, using archival inks on paper, signed work, framed under glass in a frame. The artist creates series of graphics 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, 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 the 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 concentrates on fine art printmaking abandoning applied design. She has presented her works in more than 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 the 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.
