Rafal Podgórski (b. 1984), Untitled, 2019

oil, canvas, 100 x 70 cm, described on the back: 'Podgórski Rafał -2019- [signature]'
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Faculty of Painting, in the studio of Prof. Jerzy Ostrogórski in 2009. In 2015 he defended his doctorate in art at the same university. He is a member of the "Gdansk Landscape Club", exhibiting his works in group and solo exhibitions. Since 2011, he has been an assistant in the drawing studio of Professor Elżbieta Kalinowska-Motkowicz at the Institute of Design at the Koszalin University of Technology. In art, he takes up many artistic themes. He is interested in the concept of virtuality and simulation, synesthesia, Eastern art, gesture, landscape in terms of the tradition of European painting, concepts of architectural identity, sacred geometry, the origin of number, structuralism, semiotics, process art, and many others. Individual exhibitions: 2018 - "From among the trees you can't see the forest", Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk; 2015 - "Mythic identity of communist architecture", Gallery on the Floor, Koszalin; 2015 - "Mythic identity of communist architecture", Pionova Gallery, Gdansk; 2014 - "Mythen und zahlen - uber das Wesen des Modernismus", Germany/Karlsruhe/Poly Produzentengalerie; 2014 - "Architectural identity of the secession of the north", Gallery of the Roundabout Theater, Slupsk Cultural Center, Slupsk; 2012 - "Architectural identity of the city of Szczecin", Castle of Pomeranian Dukes, Szczecin.