124. MARCIN MACIEJOWSKI
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Bar at the Wilkinson Gallery, 2013
Oil on Canvas 200x150 cm |
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An artist doesn't care, 2012
Oil on Canvas
130x170 cm
Oil on Canvas
130x170 cm
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Elly Jones 1928 (I wish you liked me), 2013
Oil on Canvas
26x20 cm
Oil on Canvas
26x20 cm
BIO & STEPS
Born:
in 1974 in Babice near
Cracow, Poland
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Cracow, Poland
Studies:
1994–1996
Studies of Architecture at the Polytechnic high school in
Cracow, Poland
1996–2001
Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland
1996
Foundation of “Grupa Ładnie” with Rafał Bujnowski, Marek
Firek, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Jósef Tomczyk Kurosawa
1998–2000
Editor of the magazine "We wtorek" ("On
Tuesday") in Cracow
2000–2002
Drawings for "Machina", Warszawa, Poland
2000–2011
Drawings and illustrations for the weekly magazine
"Przekroj", Warszawa
Themes and
style:
In a
virtuosic act of typical simplification and schematisation, Maciejowski
combines the crude style of the comic strip with a tempered, sometimes pastose,
meticulous style reminiscent of the Old Masters. His own observation of
everyday scenes from Kraków's art scene, fragments from Polish textbooks on art
history and pictures from the media are the resources he uses.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings, mostly oil on canvas
Exhibitions
Since the early 2000s his work has been
exhibited internationallyThe National Museum in Kraków held an extensive solo
exhibition of Maciejowski's work in 2010.
See more at:
Representative
Galleries:
Meyer Kainer
Thadeus Ropac
In
his own words:
“For
me a painter is a person who produces “painting” as a result of his or her
work. Obviously, the painting I mentioned doesn’t have to be “a painting”,
which you can hang on your wall. It can be some artistic activity in a given
space, the painting phenomenon. It is actually hard to define.
It
is the person looking at those results that determines who really is a painter
and what painting is. It depends on what they feel and what emotions artistic
forms evoke in them.”
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more Information: