Pawla Kuczynskiego is a Polish cartoonist born in 1976 who graduated from the Accademy of Fine Arts in Poznan specializing in graphics. She produces satirical illustrations that have received over 90 awards. In 2005 she received the "Eryk" prize from the Association of Polish Cartoonists. As a newly discovered cartoonist, she received a record number of awards in international competitions. Her illustrations capture the absurd, restlessness, and injustices in a way that is provoking, attractive, and amusing while addressing topics like slavery, greed, consumerism, politics, pollution, athletics, war, and peace.

2. Throwing rice at the bride and groom at a wedding, guests symbolically wish
them a lifetime full of fertility and of prosperity…
For the Chinese the grain feeds thousands of people for longer
periods than any other grain.

3. The song
sucked, the lyrics
sucked, the
recording
sucked, from each
violin strum to
every vocal melody
the thing…sucked!
Listening to
music all day
isn't easy, and
forming an
opinion about it
all is even
harder.

4. Why do people
with similar
backgrounds and
intellects vary so
widely in their
effectiveness in
dealing with
money?
One needs to
remember that a
fool and his
money are soon
parted.

5. There came a point in time where the trade of slavery would yield more
than gold and herbs combined. It was a business that many traders
strived to be part of.
Everything you see in the western world—its cities,
institutions, and wealth—is built on Black slavery.

6. Innocence:
a feeling of well
being and trust
that all will be well.
But beware, the
end of the game
comes when one
sets an innocent
looking quiet move
that ends in a
deadly trap.

7. In many factories people are treated and controlled like battery chickens
and told if they don't like the pay and conditions... there is always the
door.
Today the nature of work in China is changing; out with the old
dirty factory jobs and in with cleaner high-tech industries.

8. War toys definitely
have a war
promoting effect,
the protection of
the children
constitutes a
higher goal than
the interests of the
toy industry.
After all, the
symbol of the dove
and olive was
designed for and
adopted by the
Campaign for
Nuclear
Disarmament.

9. Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human
nature.

10. Freedom is difficult to
obtain and even more
difficult to maintain.
Political liberation
neither immediately
nor automatically
leads to democracy.
All too often, one
dictatorship may
fall, followed by
anarchy, and
later by yet
another
dictatorship.

11. The illustrations shown in this show are the work of Pawla
Kuczynskiego. Born in 1976 in Szczecin, she graduated at he Accademy
of Fine Arts in Poznan, specializing in graphics. Since 2004 she produces
satirical illustrations and up to now she has received 92 awards and
distinctions. In 2005 she was awarded a prize from Association of Polish
Cartoonists "Eryk". This newly discovered cartoonist received a record
number of awards in international competitions.
She has captured the absurd, the restlessness and the
injustices in an indisputable way. For her,
awareness/sensitivity is the beginning of change.......
She has produced some brilliant satirical and humorous
works that are provoking, attractive, and amusing….
slavery, greed, consumerism, politics, pollution, athletics,
war, peace, addiction, to mention a few