Carp Power, 2019, acrylic/stencil, 36 x 50cm. Work signed.
Pawel Jarodzki (1958). From 1979-84 he studied at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw; he received his diploma in 1984 in the painting studio of Associate Professor Konrad Jarodzki and Associate Professor Leszek Kaćma. In the early 1980s, Paweł Jarodzki and his friends from the same studio (Ewa Ciepielewska, Bożena Grzyb, Artur Gołacki and Andrzej Jarodzki) began publishing a fanzine magazine, which they called LuXus. While working on the magazine, the artists formed the LuXus art group. Beginning in 1984, the group began taking part in exhibitions and organizing various actions, and its distinctive aesthetics influenced the shape of Wroclaw's art scene. Its most active period was in 1984-88. Pawel Jarodzki participated in all the group's appearances, and from 1984 he also began to exhibit independently. He works in various stylistic conventions, uses stencil and quotation, consciously rejects drawing and formal correctness, emphasizing programmatic almost anti-aesthetic. Currently, as a professor, he leads the multimedia studio at the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Until 2018, he was the curator of BWA Awangarda in Wroclaw.
