The exhibition presents a series entitled "ENGRAMY", which was started by Krzysztof Szymanowicz in 2010 and continues to this day. In this series, the artist enters the areas of symbols by overlapping multiple layers of matrices of different sizes with cut out pictograms. The theme of his graphics and painting is the visual record of the formation and impact of memory on our consciousness. As the artist says; I treat the ENGRAMY cycle as my own attempt to face memory, which despite the rapid development of science remains a great mystery. I do not deal with scientific interpretations and theories of memory, but I try to find some similarities in the graphic and painting process and use them to create a new interesting message.
In a sense, the "Engramy" cycle is a way out of existing narrative themes, mental notation and description in favor of an extensive analysis of the specifics of memory formation, its activities, and impact on our consciousness. The title itself explains a lot. Engram understood as "a memory trace, a change left in the nervous system by a specific experience, the action of specific stimuli, which is the basis for later reproduction" places our attention on the mechanisms of building memory. Szymanowicz clearly signals here the deepening of the current reflection on the mental iconosphere, but also subjecting it to a specific process of objectification.
Characteristic for the works of this series, far-reaching simplification and synthesis of forms and signs along with arranging them in rows or square boxes resembles the reality of a board game or ideological map in which the record has been formalized. So we are dealing not so much with traces of reality as their processed signals.
The graphic art of Krzysztof Szymanowicz is extremely fascinating in many aspects. Excellent graphic skills and a flexible approach to combining in a surprising way the classic matrix development methods and printing methods make the work visually impressive, often painting-like in its character. However, this is not the purpose of his artistic work. All technical and formal measures were not only subordinated to building a clear language of artistic expression, but also became an important element of the message. They contribute to the symbolic reflection of human memory, the nature of individuals, their emotions. They also allow suggestive imaging of processes accompanying the processes of building and lasting memory. In this consistent creative exploration, subsequent works can surprise with their simultaneous similarity and difference. The meticulous extraction of small details sometimes goes into a monumental synthesis, and the meticulous "recording" of delicate chiaroscuro into bold expression and freedom of the characters forming the image. Like in painting, Szymanowicz perfectly confronts various strategies.
Krzysztof Szymanowicz's graphics are an uninterrupted display of combining outstanding manual talents with extraordinary workshop virtuosity, allowing the artist to draw on the world of everyday reality and symbols of objects. Awarded many times for his work with the main prizes: Grand Prix - 9th International Biennale of Small Form, Seoul, 1996, Grand Prix - 11 Graphic Competition J. Gielniaka, Jelenia Góra 2003, 1st Prize and Gold Medal - VIII International Graphic Biennial of Caixanova, Ourense, Spain 2004, II Prize - Competition for the prize of Chodowiecki for drawing and graphics, Sopot 2007., 1st Prize - 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Arts T. Kulisiewicz IMPRINT in Warsaw and recently the Award of Paweł Steller at the 10th Triennial of Polish Graphics, Katowice 2018, constantly provides us with new aesthetic experiences and evidence of crossing further - seemingly impossible to cross - technological barriers.

Fragment of the text 'Memory, emotions and images'. Author Sebastian Dudzik