10.06.2011
Official T-shirt of the 3rd ArtBoom Visual Arts Festival
The official T-shirt of the 3rd edition of the ArtBoom Visual Arts Festival featuring the (R)ewolucja: Naród chce ((R)evolution: The nation wants) piece created especially for the festival by Marcin Maciejowski – one of the most renowned Polish artists of his generation – is already available for sale. You can get it at selected Tourist Information Network InfoKraków points, as well as from the Allegro profile of the Krakow Festival Office. T-shirts cost PLN 30.
Available sizes:
women – S, M, L, XL
men – S, M, L, XL (NB: men’s sizes are slightly bigger than normal)
Marcin Maciejowski’s project referring to Pomarańczowa Alternatywa is a painting created by the artist directly on a billboard in the city space. The artist uses a method he himself developed – he combines fragments of sentences from daily newspapers, which he complements with a drawing with a dark outline. Just like it was in the actions of Pomarańczowa Alternatywa, there are two forces – one is the nation and the other – the government. A passage expressing modern needs of Poles is sprayed between the words The nation wants and the authorities agree to.
women – S, M, L, XL
men – S, M, L, XL (NB: men’s sizes are slightly bigger than normal)
The work is part of the (R)evolution project that accompanies the Happening against Communist by the Orange Alternative exhibition presented in the International Cultural Centre Gallery (Rynek Główny 25) from the 19th of June to the 2nd of October 2011.
Marcin Maciejowski - one of the most valued Polish creators of the middle generation, a painter, graphic artist, creator of cartoons and press illustrations, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1996 – 2001 he co-created the famous Ładnie group (together with Wilhelm Sasnal, Rafał Bujnowski, Marek Firek, Józef Tomczyk “Kurosawa”). Together with Rafał Bujnowski he edited an art magazine Słynne Pismo we Wtorek. As part of the Galeria Zewnętrzna AMS actions he created the Jak tu teraz żyć work presented on street billboards.
He is an attentive observes and chronicler of everyday life. His figurative work is a record of everyday situations, banal genre scenes, pop-culture images, performances by TV stars. His sources are photographs from daily papers, colour magazines, TV images. Thanks to their photographic convention they are not only a record of Polish mores, but also show the world created by the mass media. The characteristic painting style developed by the artist is characterised by simplicity, use of clear outlines, brevity and narrowing of the used range of colours.
He has presented his works at numerous individual and group exhibitions. In 2010 he had a big monographic exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow. His works can be found both in Polish, as well as foreign collections. Currently, he is connected with the Meyer Kainer gallery (Vienna), Wilkinson Gallery (London), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris/Salzburg).
Marcin Maciejowski - one of the most valued Polish creators of the middle generation, a painter, graphic artist, creator of cartoons and press illustrations, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1996 – 2001 he co-created the famous Ładnie group (together with Wilhelm Sasnal, Rafał Bujnowski, Marek Firek, Józef Tomczyk “Kurosawa”). Together with Rafał Bujnowski he edited an art magazine Słynne Pismo we Wtorek. As part of the Galeria Zewnętrzna AMS actions he created the Jak tu teraz żyć work presented on street billboards.
He is an attentive observes and chronicler of everyday life. His figurative work is a record of everyday situations, banal genre scenes, pop-culture images, performances by TV stars. His sources are photographs from daily papers, colour magazines, TV images. Thanks to their photographic convention they are not only a record of Polish mores, but also show the world created by the mass media. The characteristic painting style developed by the artist is characterised by simplicity, use of clear outlines, brevity and narrowing of the used range of colours.
He has presented his works at numerous individual and group exhibitions. In 2010 he had a big monographic exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow. His works can be found both in Polish, as well as foreign collections. Currently, he is connected with the Meyer Kainer gallery (Vienna), Wilkinson Gallery (London), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris/Salzburg).
