Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Michal | Gątarek | "Ballet" | 15.07.2024'.
Biography
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Completed his diploma in the studio of painting and drawing of Prof. Aleksander Dymitrowicz in 2010. Scholarship holder of the Erasmus program in Bourges (France, 2008/2009). Winner of the 2nd Prize of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship at the 42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015. He received an honorable mention at the 1st Art Biennale of Young Wroclaw (2011). Participant of the International Art Workshop - Pieńków, organized by the Marek Maria Pieńkowski Foundation (2010).
Author of exhibitions presented in Wroclaw: "New Atlantis" (2016) and "Mundophobia" (2011) at Arttrakt Gallery; "Youth from Good Houses" at MMXIII Gallery (2014), and - together with Prof. Zdzislaw Nitka - at PoKuSa Gallery in Wiesbaden (Germany, 2010). Author of a solo exhibition entitled. ''Antinatalism'', curated in front of Ada Piekarska, at BWA Bielska Gallery (2020).
Participated in group exhibitions (selection): Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale, Bielska BWA Gallery (2019, 2017, 2015); ''Jesters and Priests - Three Decades of Expressive Painting in Wroclaw'' at Urania headquarters in Berlin, Germany (2016); in the third edition of the project ''Aviaries'' at the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw (2012); ''Young Polish Painting - Art from Lower Silesia'', Dresden (Germany, 2009-2010).
