Slawomir Shuty, Smoke/Smoke 2017

Oil, canvas, 90 x 120 cm, signed on the back: Slawomir Shuty, 2017.

Slawomir SHUTY (1973)
Intermedia artist: writer, film director, photographer, performer, creator of the artzine "Baton". He is the author of books: Nowy Wspaniały Smak (1999), Bełkot (2001), Cukier w normie (2002), Zwał (2004), Produkt Polski (2005), Ruchy (2008), Baton III Taltosz (2012), Jaszczur (2012) and Dziewięćdziesiąte (2013). The author of the first Polish literary hypertext, Blok (www.blok.art.pl). Originator and manager of the performance series Circus from the Steelworks. In collaboration with Circus Shuty, he directed the films: On the Road (2003) and Luna (2005), for which he received the first prize at the fourth edition of the Off Film Festival on TVP2. With Tomek Bochniak, he directed the animation TRIP (2012). In 2005, he was awarded the "Polityka" Passport in the literature category. He is a native of Nowa Huta.