Linocuts by Dorota Krakowska Dolls, antropomorphical beasts, puppets – those are the images Dorota Krakowska uses in order to talk about her main interests: man and his relations to The other. The form of the black and white linocuts is simplified and sharp-angled. Her point of departure are photos of bodies in expressive positions. “The body language is used to communicate the intellectual and emotional contents by way of purely theatrical means, by gestures and symbolical movements, by positions in space, and at last by way of costume and mask.” The characters from the graphic art are expanded upon in the moving pictures. The video installation “Antropomachia” is the result of a cooperation between Dorota Krakowska and Leszek Danilczyk. It is a continuation of the theme visualised in Krakowska's graphic art, however this time it is presented in motion. Two isolated characters of different sexes start experiencing a magnetic attraction. In the beginning they show no signs of interest, they seem deaf to each other, but after a while they are slowly getting curious, turning towards each other.The growing choreographic tension between those two, woman and man, turns into a progressing involvement, reaching its climax in a newly created, more and more explicit energy. This energy is a desire expressed in a kind of erotic clinch. But there is no fulfillment, it is released in a meaningsless fight. The presence of the two intertwined forces provide the link between the video installation and the black and white space of the graphic works. Dorota Krakowska was born in Kraków in 1955. She has studied graphic arts at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. She graduated in 1980 under the direction of Professor Andrzej Pietsch (intaglio), Professor Franciszek Bunsch (woodcut) and Professor Jerzy Werner (photography). Since 2002 Krakowska cooperates with Danilczyk. She lives and works in Poland. In association with
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