Gdańsk 11.11.2013 Lithography Studio Prof. Zbigniew Gorlak

Gdańsk 11.11.2013
Lithography Studio
Prof. Zbigniew Gorlak
Welcome to Lithography Studio of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. It has been over 200 years,
since Alois Senefelder invented the new printing technique using the limestone. Our Academy
has become a continuator of this one of the most interesting litography techniques.
The high-tech printing press, allowing to make prints up to 100 centimetres long, gives the
same comfort of printing, as the gorgeous Karl Krause Leipzig No 24711, an incredible rarity in
litography presses.
In our studio apart from traditional prints we offer the most recent surface print technology Algraphy, also called Photolithography.
In the studio the graphic works are printed not only by our students, but our lecturers prof.
Zbigniew Gorlak and the assistant dr Łukasz Butkowski as well.
The lithography studio is the precursor of colour printing. This is the place, where prof. Czesław
Tumielewicz began to play with the colour. Wiesław Zaremba and the author of these words
Zbigniew Gorlak, both the assistants in the 1980s and 90s, mastered this technique then.
After separating lithography studio from the linocut workshop, we invited excellent visitting
professors of lithography: prof. Beauvais Lyons from Knoxville, USA, prof. Piotr Senewend from
Germany, and prof. Paweł Frąckiewicz, a scholar from Tamarynd Institute New Mexico
University USA.
Working in the studio gives you high technological and intellectual standard, and ensures that
young graphic designers will present their works at important graphic competitions, for
instance Przegląd Współczesnej Litografii Polskiej (Review of Polish modern Litography) in
Kielce.
Lithography combines the perfection of the drawing and painter's expression, photolithography
allows to obtain quick and excellent prints based on digital technology.
Our masters and role models are the great artists such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Francesco
Goya, Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg, Leon Wyczółkowski, Lucjan Mianowski, and
Włodzimierz Kunz.
We welcome every one, who enjoys experimenting and experiencing the adventure of amazing
technology. We also invite our former students, who would like to create lithography.
Teaching staff:
head: prof. Zbigniew Gorlak (since 1979)
assistant teacher: dr Łukasz Butowski (since 2007)