[...]The main feature linking all my prints is the story. A multi-layered story, with neither the beginning nor the end is an invitation to participate, to speculate, to interpret, to discover new meanings. The etching itself favours ambiguity, as drawing on a varnished copperplate can be repeated many times. I start with a first, not particularly clear idea, usually several figures in some relations. At the moment when the drawing begins to crystallize, I etch it and pull a proof impression. And the adventure begins, what should I do next? There are many possibilities. Once again I apply the varnish, and then draw, sometimes taking into account the proof impression, sometimes ignoring it totally. Some figures are consistently built with chiaroscuro, some hidden in a mist of piling up lines. At a certain moment, when I do not know yet the result of my doings, I etch the plate once again and print another impression. The result is usually a surprise, a story has grown creating an idea out of thickening network of shapes. The subsequent stages bring further decisions, and the image clarifies itself in both its formal and narrative aspects.[...]
Kacper Bożek

The world of medieval knights, beasts, phantoms, apparitions, dragons, horses, baroque visions and romantic nightmares, and willingness to grasp the truth about the world. Anxiety, dread, uncertainty, horror, nightmare, fright, but at the same time the grotesque and fun. Merging, interpenetrating worlds, changing, passage of time, artificiality and naturalness. That is in a few words the graphic oeuvre of Kacper Bożek.[….] Each sheet is a multi-layered story, which can be read in succession using a magnifying glass. [….] Bożek is a man of Gothic imagination and of goldsmith's precision. To materialize his gloomy visions he has chosen the most laborious and traditional printmaking techniques: the etching, aquatint and mezzotint. [….] He draws his motifs from nature but filters them through his nightmarish imagination. [….] His world is not fictitious, but made out of pieces of legends, tales, fairy tales, medieval documents .... Elaborate formal layer hides the narrative, symbolic and allegoric. His works can be read both on the formal and allegoric level. [….] In 2004 Bożek took up the challenge to illustrate The Master and Margarita. In 3 years of hard work he produced 12 plates. Each work illustrates in a succinct way a part of this sophisticated story. The prints render the book very truly, they keep its mocking and ironical overtone. The series is Bożek's most important graphic work as yet.[….]
Katarzyna Jagodzińska

Kacper Bożek was born in 1974 in Kraków. Graduated from the Print Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He is the author of 12 one-man shows in Poland, among them 2 at Nautilus Gallery in Kraków in 2004 and 2007. He participated in many collective exhibitions in Poland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Holland, Great Britain, Spain, Lithuania, Russia and USA. For his prints he received several prizes and awards, among them the Grand Prix of Print of the Year 2002 in Kraków. His works are in several state collections in Poland, among them the National Library in Warsaw and the Raczyński Library in Poznań.