Dimensions: 100 x 75 cm
signed lower right: 'A. Ciołek'
signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse: 'SZZPDP0423 | Toy stores | plugged in 04 | Being! ... on a leash for the audience. | To be and to have! | ... illusory certificates of fantasticality | 2023 | A. Ciołek'
Biography
He studied at the Department of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He received his diploma with a medal for outstanding work in 2014. He approaches painting graphically, using color contrasts, embedded texts, and drawing to express emotional responses to sociological issues of the contemporary world. He comments on and documents these issues, and does not shy away from difficult topics. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: a solo exhibition—*Etching*, a series of 20 works. Bakakaj, Tychy (2013); post-competition exhibition (four works)—New Avant-Garde. Szyb Wilson, Katowice (2015); solo exhibition—Painting. New Decameron, Katowice, (September 2019); solo exhibition—Painting and Printmaking, Diagnosis. Utopia. Strefart, Tychy, (March 2020); group exhibition—Painting. Galeria Na Wolności, Tychy (December 2021)".
