Illusions and Landscapes

“The photographs displayed at the exhibition portray the general condition of the arts of photography in the era of new media. Antoni Myśliwiec, contrary to his faithfulness to tradition has gradually become an outsider who is on the quest for the form and content. He does it with regards to technology and thus preserves a harmony with his own sensitivity and personal creation.” – this is how Jan Główka PhD, the Kielce History Museum Director encourages us to see the exhibition.

The vernisage takes place on 16th October at 6 p.m. in the Kielce History Museum, 4 Leonarda street.

I take a picture of what my imagination has filtered rather than of the actual state of things – hold Antoni Myśliwiec’s artistic credo.

The Artist was born in 1950. Myśliwiec has been a member of ZPAF – the Association of Polish Artists Photographers since 1985, although he had been into photography since the seventies. He was employed as a photography specialist at Kielce University of Technology, then supervised the photographic gallery at Kielce Creative Milieus Centre. Later he worked as a photographer at “Viga – art” and “Nazar” advertisement agencies. In 2003 the calendar with Antoni Myśliwec photos was awarded a distinction in the National Calendar Review - Vidical. From 1994 to 1997 Myśłiweic acted in the capacity of Swietokrzyskie ZPAW Chapter President, he is now the Deputy President of the Association division. The artist has been awarded with numerous prizes at, inter alia Annual Photography Exhibitions of Swietokrzyskie Region, Polish Landscape Biennale and PRZEDWIOŚNIE. For a number of years Myśliwiec has collaborated with Targi Kielce. He has also been the author pf photographs included in numerous publications and museum catalogues. He has also had more than a dozen individual exhibition in Poland and abroad.