Salt & Pepper Gallery: Illustration

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Oleksy KUSTOVSKY (KUSTO)

e-mail: kustoa@gmail.com

Artist, cartoonist, illustrator

Graduated National Agricultural University

From 2003, won more than 90 prizes on international cartoon contests.

Awards: Gold Prize / LM International Cartoon Exhibition 2003 (China); First Prize / Nature & Man Cartoon Contest "Drought & Water" (Turkey); First Prize / International competition on drawing for women “Jaka bede.. 2009” (Olsztyn, Poland); Gold Prize / 3rd "Molla Nasreddin-Azerbaijan 2010" International Cartoon Contest (Azerbaijan); First Prize "MUSSEL - 2010" / The 2nd International Cartoon Contest "Mussel & Fish 2010" (Bulgaria); "Salt & Pepper Magazine" Prize / The International Salt & Pepper Satirical Art Salon 2010 - Romania, “Masters of caricature” Prize / The Sixth International Biennale “Masters of Caricatures” – Plovdiv 2011 (Bulgaria), YILMAZ GÜNEY HONOR AWARDS / 2nd INTERNATIONAL YILMAZ GÜNEY CARTOON CONTEST( Turkey), First Prize – Cartoon / 39º Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba 2012 (Brazil); First Prize / 6th SMEHANAPA (SMILEANAPA) International Cartoon Festival 2012 – Anapa (Russia), Grand Prix in Presov (2013, Slovakia), Stuttgart (2013, Germany), 7-77 prize in Ankara (2014, Turkey), Damascus (2014, Syria), Istanbul (2014, Turkey),Poltava and Kherson (2015, Ukraine), Tabriz (2015, Iran), Montpellier (2015, France), Gura Humorului (2015, Romania), Haifa (2015, Israel), Braila (2015, Romania), Skopje(2015, Macedonia).

Published cartoons in newspapers and magazines from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Sweden

Solo exhibition: Belgorod, 2010 (Russia)

Collective exhibition: Pisek (Cartoon Meeting Point Písek-2010), Czech Republic

Member of the Jury: The International Cartoon Contest “LM” in China (2005), The International Cartoon Festival «CLEAR LOOK-2010» (Russia), The International Cartoon Contest «Jaka bede» in Poland (2010, 2011, 2012), The 32nd Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest in Turkey (2012), International "Salt & Pepper" Satirical Art Salon in (2013)
Member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.

Lives in Vyshneve, Ukrayne

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Marcin BONDAROWICZ

e-mail: bondarowicz@wp.pl

Born in 1976

Cartoonist, illustrator & graphic designer

Graduated from the Radom Kazimierz Puławski Polytechnic

Participant, juror, and winner of international competitions in editorial & satirical drawing
His works can be found in numerous collections.

Lives and works in Starachowice, Poland

Next Exhibition
https://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/en/exhibitions/marcin-bondarowicz.html

He is consiedered as one of the most distinguished artists of caricature and satirical drawing in Poland. He made his debut in 2004 in the daily "Puls Biznesu". He colaborated with such magazines as: „BusinessWeek”, „Fakt”, „Focus”, „Forbes”, „Fronda”, „Harvard Business Review Polska”, „Le Monde Diplomatique – Polish Edition”, „National Geographic”, „Nie”, „Newsweek – Polska”, „Polska The Times”, „Poland Monthly”, „Przekrój”, „Puls Biznesu”, „Tygodnik Powszechny” ect. and also outside Poland in: „Cartoon Weekly” (China), „Catapult Art Magazine” (USA), „Eulenspiegel Satiremagazin” (Germany), „Fire Humor Magazine” (Turkey), „Himal Southasian” (Nepal), „Pulse” (Great Britain), „Stern” (Germany), „Yeni Akrep – New Scorpion – International Cartoon Magazine” (USA) and many others. His works are full of symbolism and metafors in the surrealist convention. Awarded in Poland, Iran, Germany, China, Serbia, USA, Spain and so on.

Statement of the artist:

"In today's world - in an age when traditional patterns are threatened by globalisation, when value hierarchies are being blurred by the dominant liberal ideology and when the autonomy and individuality of the artistic message is being undermined by advertisements, billboards, spots and clips - the individual artist's manual and craftsman like dexterity are in greater than ever demand for me.
My works refer to the tradition of the Polish school of poster art, a poster art which was philosophical, brief, at the same time, harbouring ambitions of a wider social resonance.
There are symbolic pictures of an autobiographical and existential character. Autobiography became a shelter and a starting-point for my work.
The painter's image - “corporeality of Art” are the counterweight to the stereotype proposed by the media, the counterweight to the virtual reality of the electronic media."