| 1. Where are you from?
PK: Im from Slovakia, Central Europe, formerly Czechoslovakia. We are
good in ice hockey : Dominik Hasek, Satan, Demitra, Palffy, Chara...
2. When did you start printmaking and where did you learn how to make prints?
PK: My first linocut was made in some 1972, when I was 11, I think. It
was the biggest wonder in my life! Then hundreds made at the Academy of
Fine Arts in the Capitol of Bratislava by Prof. A. Brunovsky. I did my
first etchings in 1980.
3. What is you favorite style of printmaking?
PK: I think its some erotical engravings, etching or dry point, and some
abstract themes combined .
4. Can you describe this printmaking technique?
PK: Im using the plates from offset printing machines, old and used. I
draw in pencil onto the reverse side of the trimetal aluminium plate.
Then engrave it.
5. Do you currently have your own printmaking "area", such as
a studio or class room?
PK: Of course, but my workplace is underground for some 8 years now. I
have no electric lights there :{ just some battery and many, many candles
during the nights.
6 . Who would you say is your favorite printmaker? Both living or dead?
PK: Dead, "The REMBRANDT" I was born the same day, currently
I like Peter Milton USA, Julian Jordanov Bulgaria,
7. How do you find your subject matter in your work?
PK: Its very difficult to say, maybe it was just god s joke?
8. Is there something in printmaking, whether it be a style or process,
that you do not like?
PK: Ouffff, its a terrible thing, maybe them all! The Materials. Im printing
with oil collours for offset, I cant find others here. In another sense
- I need it all so much when Im some more days out or without my tools,
press...
9. Are you a neat and orderly person or messy and like to "spread out"?
PK: Im in the middle, one day neat, other days messy .
10. Was there any one person or artist that was the reason you started printmaking?
PK: My teacher maybe, Albin Brunovsky.
11. What would you say is your favorite print that you have ever made? And
do you have a picture of it?
PK: "The nightmare of shodoo" etching (image not yet available)
12. How would you describe yourself as a printmaker?
PK: I will send you a new video of my style of working some day, Im just
a worker not an Artist! An artist was James Whistler!
13. How often do you make prints?
PK: Im printing only when I must for exhibitions or competitions all over
the world.
14. Do you think that your printmaking will change much in the next five
years? Why or why not?
PK: I think not so much, just in techniques. If they were to, I think
they would not be so strong.
15. Do you teach at all?
PK: Yes I'm a teacher at the University, Art dept. I teach drawing, printmaking,
calligraphy, Japanese, Chinese, Korean.
16. Are you active in any printmaking organizations or artist groups?
PK: Never have been. Now in DEG-Deutsche exlibris gesselschaft, KIWA-Kyoto,
Per spektrum-artistic society of my city Presov.
17. What advice would you give to those people just starting to get into
printmaking?
PK: It's very difficult and hard work to print hundreds or thousands of
prints in intaglio :}and maybe a neverending learning of process too.
18. Is there something that you find fulfilling when you have finished a
print? What is it? or Can you describe this feeling?
PK: Yes, it's a miracle some days, but not everyday can be so heart fullfilling!
Some times my feet are so tired, then I must sit, go down, just watching
the matter of miracle, and to give more energy to the picture, catch more
mystery from! Then...surprise, lighted eyes, the soul is out of flesh!
Incredible.
19. Would you say you have been successful in printmaking? Why or why not?
PK: Successful in only a few works, because it is not the most important
thing in this way of life, just doing it is the most important thing.
20. What other forms of artwork besides printmaking do you enjoy?
PK: I like photos of still-lifes of around my world, doing calligraphy,
swimming ,painting some abstract forms, I like to play with them, no ideas
given, just to be in it.
22. Who are your "heroes"? (they do not have to be printmakers)
PK: My heroe is -Batman, Im like this too.
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