Mateusz Szczypinski (b. 1984), Orado_Termop, from the series "Crosswords," 2020

oil, collage, canvas, 120 x 100 cm, signed on the back: '[monogram MS2020] | MATEUSZ | SZCZYPIŃSKI | "ORADO_TERMOP"'.

EXHIBITED:
2021 - "Random Events" (Szczypiński |Winiarski), HOS Gallery, Warsaw (curated by Katarzyna Piskorz).

Lives and works in Cracow. He defended his diploma in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2012. Before that, in 2009, he graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow with a degree in art history. His creative method is to operate on quotation, referring to the well-known tradition, images and clichés encoded in the mass consciousness. He uses the collage technique. Selected solo exhibitions: 2019 - "Ruins Reserve," Museum Burg Vischering, Ludinghausen (Germany); 2019 - "Stadt Gottes," lokal_30, Warsaw; 2017 - "Please, Fill out the Form," Widna Gallery, Krakow; 2015 - "Dust in the Eye," Galeria Dwie Lewe Ręce, Katowice, Poland; 2015 - "Entertainment," Gallery -1, Warsaw, Poland; 2014 - "Our Matters," Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart (together with Benjamin Bronni); 2013 - "Natural Exaggeration," Katowice Cultural Center, Katowice, Poland. He has also presented his works in many group exhibitions, including at Biała Gallery (Lublin); MOCAK (Cracow); Foksal Gallery Foundation (Warsaw); European Central Bank (Frankfurt am Main); Kordegarda Gallery (Warsaw), and the State Art Gallery in Sopot. The artist cooperates with the lokal_30 gallery in Warsaw. His works are in many private collections at home and abroad. Three of his works have recently added to the collection of the National Museum in Gdansk.