In his works there are shades of other artists such as William Blake, Pieter Breughel and Hieronymus Bosch. Like Bosch [...] he expresses an intense pessimism and reflects the anxieties of the time, one of social and political upheaval. Ancuta invests each bizarre and outlandish creation with similar realism and naturalistic characters. His nightmarish works parallels that of Bosch whose images seem to express an inexplicable
surrealistic power. [...]
Ancuta’s work is somewhat akin to Albrecht Dürer, another Northern artist. Like Dürer Ancuta was encouraged to draw from an early age. Lines in his drawings are incisive and etched on the viewer. [...]
In his own words, the artist attempts to explain that the ideas spring from around him and a great deal is unconscious. In his head he sees the craziness of the world. [...]
Like Ensor, Ancuta’s work is suffused with ‘deep scepti- cism’ in the face of our materialistic world, with seismo-graphic sensitivity.
Coming from a relatively impoverished background, with roots in Poland, Ancuta urges us to look at the funda-mental roots of our society and especially our imaginative world within.
His technical mastery is at the hart of the tradition of drawings from Goya to Jean Dupas, from Aubrey Beardsley to Gustave Dore and to Arthur Rackham.
Jaroslaw Ancuta could overall be termed a ‘modern surrealist who uses ‘metaphysical iconography’ and who will emerge to justify a place in the repertoire of post modern contemporary art.
Gerald Porter, June 2009
Ancuta lays himself bare with every incisive line he draws.
Born in 1969 in Kolo,Poland. Studied art in the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and A.Mickiewicz University in Poznan-department of Fine Arts Education in Kalisz. In 1995 in Kalisz graduated under Professor A.Niekrasz (Diploma in Paintings) and Professor A.Jocz (Diploma in Sculpture) and, the following year, finished Academy in Wroclaw with Master’s Degree (Diploma in Paintings) under Professor A.Klimczak-Dobrzaniecki
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