La Vita dell'Arte, 2021

Digital collage (75cm x 50cm)

Pawel Pacholec

The collage technique of Pawel Pacholec (he) puts much emphasis on composition and aesthetic outcome through the careful positioning of each element. Influenced by Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg, and Raoul Hausmann, his compositions are kept in the Dadaist style. He has been published in many magazines and exhibited in the USA, Canada, China, Australia, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Indonesia, Turkey, and Poland. He studied arts in the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (Poland) and photography at the University of Arts in Poznan (Poland).

“I create collages based mainly on old archival illustrations, focusing on topics like the human psyche and carnality, architecture and cities, and technology and mechanics. La Vita dell’Arte was prompted by two ancient Greek sculptures, first Venus and then Discobolus. There are also fragments of ancient columns and decorative ornaments in the composition.”