collage, paper, 18.5 x 10 cm
signature, date, title and size on the reverse
unique
Invented figure Bruno Larek (1901-1936) was a Polish painter, illustrator,objectmaker, and poet. He studied mechanical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and painting at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. Larek left both schools to continue his travels to Berlin and Paris. There he came into contact with the art of the Dadaistsand Surrealists. He died in a fire in Warsaw at the age of 35. His specific means of expression and absurd sense of humor make hisworkpart of the Dada trend. Against the background of the contemporary artistic situation in Poland, Larek's art is a kind of alternative and rebellion against the native culture.
Bruno Larek project in solo exhibitions: Catalogue of non-existent works, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2013); Bruno Larek, Journey, experiment and play, Biała Gallery, Lublin (2012); Bruno Larek, den es nicht gab, Gallery of the Polish Institute in Dusseldorf (2012). Buno Larek project in group exhibitions: Idealistsand Provocateurs, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz (2018); Life. Instruction, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2017); DADA Yes!,Galeria Biała, Lublin (2016); Memory. Registers and Territories, International Cultural Center,Krakow(2016).
BIO
In his works, mainly in painting and collage, one can find inspiration from the avant-garde of the 20th century - Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism, as well as threads taken from the history of art - from the Middle Ages to the present day and pop culture. From 2006 to 2011 he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received an Artinfo and Format art-writing award as part of Bielska Jesień (2019) and 1st prize during Kolaż/Assamblage, BWA Olkusz (2019). Selected solo exhibitions: Poltergeist, Gallery of the Polish Institute in Dusseldorf (2014); Catalogue of non-existent works, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2013); Story of those and those, Bunkier Sztuki,Krakow(2013); Bruno Larek, den es nicht gab, Gallery of the Polish Institute in Dusseldorf (2012). Selected group exhibitions: Idealists and Provocateurs, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz (2018); Life. Instruction, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2017); KREW-WERK, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2016); Memory. Registers and Territories, International Cultural Center,Krakow(2013). His works are in the collections of: Bunkier Sztuki, Bank Pekao SA, Bank PKO BP.
