Wojciech Pietrasz, Kordian, 2022

acrylic, canvas, 60 x 50 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: "KORDIAN"/WPIETRASZ/60 x 50 cm./2022/AKRYL/CANVILLE

exhibited: 46th Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2023, Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, November 2023 - January 2024; TANCZ!, Sektor I Gallery, Jaworzno, 2024
reproduced: 46th Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2023, edited by Ada Piekarska, Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, 2023 , p. 119.

Wojciech Pietrasz (born in 1973 in Rzeszów) is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma with distinction in 1998 in the studio of Prof. Adam Wsiolkowski. He works in painting, drawing and photography. He lives and works in Cracow. He is associated with informal groups of painters: "Neoromantics" and "Project of Unknown Title". He comes from Niebylec and this very name well describes his work, full of understatements, suspended in time and not obvious.
Wojciech Pietrasz seems to play the role of a frogman who, with undisguised pleasure, descends into the depths of Polish mythology and one by one unearths characters with images already subject to partial decay. Słowacki, Mickiewicz, Norwid in Wojciech Pietrasz's edition dissolve spectacularly retaining only a penetrating, sharp gaze. The bard-zombie stripped of pathos, draped in grotesque, observes.

Solo exhibitions:
DANCE! ( Sektor I Gallery, Jaworzno, 2024)
I will live and die. Don't ask me why. (BWA Kosno, 2024)
Wojciech Pietrasz & Jan Matejko. Zombie Figurations. (Royal Castle in Warsaw, 2023
Niebylec (2 Dimensions Foundation, Pragaleria, Warsaw, 2019)
Niebylec (BWA Sanok, 2019)
Fire (Solvay Center for Contemporary Art, Krakow, 2019)
You over life (Solvay Center for Contemporary Art, Krakow 2017)
Sometimes I would like to strangle you (Łącznik Gallery, Kraków 2012)
Selected group exhibitions:
Refuges Welcome. Artists for refugee women and refugees ( MNS Warsaw, 2023).
The further into the forest. Neoromantics towards nature (2 Dimensions Foundation, BWA Sanok, 2017)
AAF Maastricht (Gallery Second Eye 2014).