Piotr Kotlicki (born 1972), Grill Stories, 2017

oil, canvas, 33 x 38 cm, signed on the back: '[PIOTR | KOTLICKI | 2017]'.

Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Diploma in the painting studio of Prof. Ryszard Hunger. Currently a lecturer at the Department of Directing at the National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz. Painter, author of videos. In 2017 he won the Grand Prix of the 4th Piotrkow Trybunalski Art Biennale in Piotrkow Trybunalski, and in 2016 he won the Grand Prix during the "Interference festival" at the Shakespeare Theater in Gdansk. His work has been recognized by qualifying for the list of finalists in the prestigious publication "100 painters of tomorow" (Kurt Beers, published by Thames & Hudson, London 2014). He has presented his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions: 2018 - "7 million years", Olimpus Gallery, Lodz; 2018 - "A madman in his garden", Assembly Gallery, Berlin (Germany); 2017 - "Barbarians", ODA, Piotrkow Trybunalski; 2017 - "Black paintings", Assembly Gallery, Poznan; 2016 - "We are turning into nothingness - cried the general", Sandhofer Gallery, Salzburg (Austria); 2016 - "Motion compositions in paintings", PAF Animation Festival 2016, Leuven (Belgium); 2015 - "There are places here from which I jump hurting myself sometimes to the point of blood", Olimpus Gallery, Lodz.