About Me
About Me
Artist Statement
of
Bruno Wojnicz
Photographic Artist
The purpose of my photographic work is to evoke a meaningful and highly charged emotional response from the observer. Over the years the presentation of my static images evolved into what I believe are two-dimensional catalysts of emotional suspensions to be released from a visual contact from the intimate confinement of the viewer’s consciousness. Passion, with all its manifestations of ecstasy, joy and pain is a recurring theme of my work.
I do not work with popular or trendy themes. The images in my work may overlap with today’s populist scenarios but my intention is a personal emotional and psychological response to purposefully arouse current or past memories. The more intense the better. This is not an attempt to create cheap and shallow images for the shock value and I have no time for those who believe that it is. The works are an attempt to bring out the viewer’s experience of a given issue at hand whether for sheer and bountiful delight or the agony of pain.
I believe that It is for the artist to utilize the subject matter displayed in their work as a tool to bring out a viewer reaction and to hopefully bring about an emotional understanding of the image. I hope to tear the viewer’s feelings apart and for the viewer to reach a deep visceral and symbiotic personal relationship to the portrait. The work is to be the stimulant for empathy for the viewer’s craving for a deep connection. Although not every image draws out a forceful response from everyone it is hoped that my work will elicit some type of personal reaction.
I believe that this is the next “Movement” in art. Not just superficial imagery but a more interpersonal involvement of the viewer to the work no matter what the media. More than just color and light, any installation should be a reciprocal emotional walk-thru not dissimilar to a movie… only more intense.
CV
Bruno W. Wojnicz
Born: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, 1952
Citizenship: Canadian
Education
2004 Post-undergraduate course; furniture designs and prototype; inspiration from
Kandinsky and Mondrian painting; functional 3 dimensional works.
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts; University of Manitoba; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1998 Diploma in B&W Photography; Red River Community College: Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada
Exhibitions
2021 “The Love You Take”, “A Revulsion to Your Touch” ARTBOX.ZURICH 3.0. – Group Show, Zürich, Switzerland
2019 “Remembering”. Platform Gallery – Group Show Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2019 “Remembering” ARTBOX.ZURICH. 1.0 – Group Show, Zürich, Switzerland
2017 Seven Deadly Sins; Grolle Fine Art: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2016 Shoes: an Obsession; Grolle Fine Art; Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada
2016 Untitled Works; Grolle Fine Art; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2015 ArtMonaco; Monaco, France, by Invitation
2014 Collected Works; Grolle Fine Art; Winnipeg, Canada
2013 Angst; Fleet Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Awards, Competitions and Publications
Awards
2011 “Farewell to Childhood” Silver Award; People & Portrait; International Loupe Award,
2010 “Suspicion” Bronze Award; People & Portrait; International Aperture Award
Competitions
2013 “Farewell to Childhood” Black Box Gallery; Portland Oregon, February
Publications
Marika Magazine, Top Posters, November Issue 2023
Marika Media Magazine, Artistic Nude, July 2023
Marika Magazine, Top Posters, May/June Issue 2023
Bruno Wojnicz, Catalog, ARTBOX Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland, 2019
“No One But Me”, “Remembering”; Transliving Magazine, Issue 63
“Duplicity”, “Remembering”, “What Lies Beneath”; Audacious Fashion Magazine; Issue 15
January 2019
“Zoë: an Emotional Landscape”, Self published,2018
“Farewell to Childhood” Artist Portfolio Magazine; January 2012
“Farewell to Childhood”, Exposure, Volume III, 2012
“Farewell to Childhood”, Portraits & People 2; Galaawards; Honorable Mention, 2011Ju
ARTBOX.PROJECT.Zürich 1.0
Swiss Art Expo, Zürich Switzerland
2019
