Who is J.J. Pokrak?
J.J. Pokrak also known as Jacek Jagiełło - was born in 1958 in Poland. As a child, he learned the basics of painting from following prominent artists such as Stanisław Zajaczkowski and Władysław Kurpiel. In the later stages of his work, he began his artistic journey by going his own way.
For many years he was (and still is) an entrepreneur in the area of environmental protection and sustainability. During this time on his business trips, he was taking photographs and collecting inspiration for his artworks.
In 2017 together with Gevon Zelm (Eugeniusz Zacharski), he defines and introduces a new trend in art - compmaturism, which comprises painting and poetry.
The work of J.J. Pokrak can be found in private collections around the world: Japan, Sweden, Poland, and Norway.
What is Compmaturism?
It is a new direction of art derived from expressionism.
The name is an abbreviation of compulsive maturity.
The creators of compmaturistic art are usually mature people acting on the impulse, violent internal order.
The characteristic feature of this direction of art is negligence of detail, according to the rule: do not differentiate, just do integrate. Compmaturists choose actions and forms of activity that allow them to record emotions on the run. The father of compmaturism in the field of painting is Pokrak (Pokrak.art) and in poetry Gevon Zelm.
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INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART "A HELP" IAVA2020
INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART "A HELP" IAVA2020/ Covers artists’ creations during the global ongoing crisis due to COVID 19. Our civilization has entered a new reality, and humans are faced with an ongoing set of life challenges generating another societal paradigm interconnected to mortality, loss, death, and rebirth.
After receiving 872 proposals from visual artists from around the world, a select group of 64 professional artists living in 25 countries has been selected.
Selected artists are from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Israel, UK, Bahamas, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Chile, and the USA, among others.
The artists’ proposals fall into different aesthetic subcategories, reflecting the intensity of the subject in different expressions. From critical human representations, the self and the virus, to splashes of subjective realities, dislocated landscapes of world ecosystems, and nonobjective representations, serve as visual mixtures of the creation of the moment.