signed l.d.: Michalik '90
on the reverse l.d.: Marian Michalik | [address] | Title: "Searching in the Past" | Year: 1990 | Techn: oil | Dimensions: 91 x 71 cm
Michalik's paintings do not need verbal compliments or dissertations that would embarrass us, who are familiar with his paintings, with their scholarship. For their language is simple, generally comprehensible and appropriately controlled by the artist. [...] it [the work] is accessible to all in the sense that everyone - depending on sensitivity and knowledge - will find his own richness in these paintings. This is where the equality ends and the diversity of levels and the multiplicity of viewing angles from which they can be viewed begins.
Henryk Waniek, Marian Michalik 1947-1997, Memorial Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery Częstochowa, III-IV 1998.
♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)
Marian Michalik (Zabrze 1947 - Częstochowa 1997) - was a graduate of the High School of Fine Arts in Częstochowa. After his graduation in 1966, he was engaged in applied graphics. A few years later he turned to painting, in which he excelled independently. In 1979 he was admitted to the Association of Polish Artists. Since then he has exhibited extensively at home and abroad, receiving many awards at national and international competitions, including a gold medal at the "Bielska Jesień" in 1980, an honorable mention at the XV Grand Prix d'Art Contemporain, Monte Carlo 1981, an award at the International Painting Biennale, Kosice 1985. In 1987 he became a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters in Paris. He worked in the convention of magical realism, accurately reproducing banal everyday objects, various tools, fetuses of nature, etc., and then creating their unusual juxtapositions. Using dark colors and lighting effects, he referred to the historical painting of Dutch still life masters.
