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An interview with Reinaldo Pagan Avila Satyrykon: Is there a big difference between the European and the Cuban sense of humour? I’ve seen a movie in which you say that the Cubans have an inborn sense of humour and they just can’t live without jokes. Has anything changed in that aspect in you since you […]

In the awarded by this year Satyrykon work a raven and a toucan are meeting beak to beak. It is a motif of a reflection which creates or demystifies illusions about ourselves – we know it so well indeed. However, this selfie, an extremely easy act of self-creation which has become a symbol of our

Let’s imagine an amazing creature who is waiting for a delayed bus in deadly freeze, and to warm her up is graving a map of Poland in snow… It seems that only this bus can give us a clue about this scene, that it didn’t take place in a patriotic fever during some of the

Jasiek Zborucki is an individual who can appreciate the beauty of the Polish speech on daily basis, who eagerly studies its nuances and who’s this beauty and linguistic correctness indefatigable protector. He’s probably well known to all his workmates as an unbearable purist who points out, without pleasure but pleasantly, their real and alleged errors.

Although they miss one common denominator so much, they’ve come together to act cooperatively from time to time. Claiming they did it just for that, would probably be too much malice. Nevertheless, the only thing they share, in satire and any other sphere, is their undoubted status. Acting on their own free will, they decided

I am on the train coming back from Satyrykon. It has been the first Satyrykon in my life. I have never participated in it neither as an artist, nor as a jury member. I try to remember the past. Satirical drawing has been present in various moments of my life, and thanks to it I

For forty years now it has stirred up strong emotions continuously. It seems that anyone who has had contact with it, “knows better” what it SHOULD look like. It is often admitted by those who come from far away. On a regular basis, these close ones are not satisfied with it.It has always been eager

Interview with Magda Wosik, Satyrykon 2017 Grand Prix winner Satyrykon: Have you ever met an exhibitionist? Or, speaking more seriously, what are the secrets which are uncomfortable to reveal today? Magda Wosik: Let me answer this way: A meeting of that type wasn’t my inspiration for that drawing. There are fewer and fewer taboo issues in

We talk about this year’s “Sharp-eye Skills” with professor Dariusz Vasina Satyrykon: As the Narrative Drawing Workshop (Pracownia Rysunku Narracyjnego), as the name itself suggests, do you tend to tell stories? Are you going to play the part of a Scheherazade at this year’s Satyrykon? Or, having in mind that among many other characters which

Interview with Anna Pałosz Satyrykon: Have you chosen Katowice academy due to its poster design traditions, or has it been at the academy that you have taken an interest in poster? Anna Pałosz: Poster has always been close to me, the means it uses (mental shortcut, synthesis) to be exact. The Poster Design Workshop seemed