Michal Linow \ Pikaso (b. 1986), "Silver_03," 2024

Biography
The most disturbing and promising street artist on the contemporary art market. He deals with widely understood painting, net art, realizes video installations and takes photographs. He has been involved in street art for more than 10 years. At first it causes distrust. In his work, Pikaso employs a simple arsenal of expressionistic means, used without restraint or self-control. The naivety of these means is the strength of such painting. Well-understood and consciously used primitiveness happens to be the strategy of many of the best artists. In this context, Michael Linow's street nickname ceases to seem merely a mockery of a museum fetish. His painting is a peculiar example of artistic evolution: instead of growing out of a certain mannerism, he gained distance from it and began to use it with increasing premeditation. His operating principle is the negation of meaning and the destruction of form. The street context of his works adds additional meanings. He makes use of poor, degraded spaces, ones where the nesting of crude ululations seems natural. The artist is as conscious as possible in this process, and happily avoids aestheticization and excess cultural-artistic ballast. Individual exhibitions: 2011 "Mine" - Gallery on the Vistula River - Torun; 2010 Someone tell me - Viuro Gallery - Warsaw; 2010 I had a bad day - Klub Papryka - Sopot; 2010 Pikaso at Gallery 63 - Gallery 63 - Sopot; 2010 Pikaso at the Apartments - Apartment - Gdansk. In addition, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions, and in 2010 was nominated for the Artaq street art award in the category of Painting (France).