Dimensions: 41 x 29 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'JK | 2012 | "POCZTKI Z BSTOKU" | JOANNA KARPOWICZ | ZNININIĘCI 1 | 41 x 29 cm, acrylic'.
Literature
published by the Ludwik Zamenhof Center, 2012
Biography
Author of comic books, painter. Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow - diploma with honorable mention in Prof. Leszek Misiak's studio.
In 2003, she presented an individual painting exhibition entitled Room 666 at the Nova gallery in Kazimierz, Krakow. In her work on comics, she uses painting techniques: Lipstick was painted with acrylics on canvas paper. This comic book gained notoriety due to its combination of brutal scenes and dark plot with a sophisticated graphic form. Subsequent installments were announced: Shelters and Scarf, but Joanna Karpowicz abandoned them.
Also in 2003, in the competition of the 14th International Comics Festival, Joanna Karpowicz presented several boards of her own story entitled Library. They were eventually included in the album Tomorrow will be fur, which is the first, of the planned three, part of the story set in the author's meticulously devised world of the future. The plot of Tomorrow ... begins on December 11, 4003, in the city of New Rome, built after the apocalyptic Great Drought in the desert, and inhabited jointly by humans and Intelligent Animals (a race of genetically modified animals, initiated by a breeding experiment in an Indian laboratory in 2978).
During the hiatus of work on the next parts of Tomorrow.... the author created a pair of several-panel comics for the international anthology Staruorzz, paying satirical homage to the Star Wars trilogy.
