Dimensions: 120 x 130 cm
Signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse: “FIVE WITH A CAR” | M. MACIEJOWSKI | 02.
Provenance
Purchased from the artist
Exhibited
“Marcin Maciejowski. They Live Here and They Are Happy Here,” Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Nov. 18, 2002–Jan. 5, 2003
The work was presented on loan at the 20th and 21st Century Gallery of the National Museum in Warsaw
Bibliography
They Live Here and They Are Happy Here. Marcin Maciejowski, 2003 calendar published on the occasion of the exhibition “Marcin Maciejowski. They Live Here and They Are Happy Here” at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art and the Polish Institute in Berlin, Warsaw 2002, unnumbered (ill.)
Biography
Painter and draftsman, one of the most important artistic voices of the turn-of-the-century generation in Polish art. He studied in Kraków at the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts. Member of the Ładnie group and publisher of “Słynne Pismo we Wtorek.” From 2000 to 2010, he collaborated with the magazine *Przekrój* on a regular column, commenting on Polish reality through his drawings. Winner of the *Polityka* Passport Award.
Maciejowski’s most recent projects include “Wawel Drawings” —a book published by the Royal Castle at Wawel—and the exterior of the Ringturm skyscraper in Vienna, which forms a 4,000 m² mural—likely the largest painting project by a Polish artist in Europe.
Maciejowski’s paintings are held in private and museum collections in Poland and abroad. He collaborates with Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Europe and Asia, and Galeria Raster in Warsaw.
