Wystawy
Painting/Drawing Piotr Król 24th April 2009, 7 p.m.
April /May 2009
Art Exhibition Vernissage on 24th April, 7 p.m.
Exhibition will be on display until 22nd May 2009
Painting/Drawing
Piotr Król
Piotr Król
Born in 1973 in Łódź
Took a higher education programme at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
In 1999, he earned a diploma in the field of painting in Prof. R. Hunger’s studio, in the field of drawing in Prof. J. Nowotarski’s studio, and wood engraving in Prof. A. Bartczak’s studio
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In 1999, he was a laureate of the Władysław Strzemiński’s Contest. In 2006, he was a winner of an international painting contest Artist and their Work organized by the Contemporary Painting in 2006. In 2007, he took a scholarship at the Fresco School in Treglio run by Vico Calabrò who is one of the most eminent Italian painters.
“Somewhere in cliché and bestiality, many a time carefully veiled, a pure soul wishes to give another soul something sensitive and subtle. And this is what I would like to depict in my paintings” – Piotr Król says about his works.
Individual exhibitions:
2007 – Adi-Art Art Gallery, Łodź
2007 – Art Museum in Petrykozy – Wojciech Siemion’s Art Gallery
2008 – Lyktan Art Gallery, Stokholm, Sweden, together with S. Mostauskis
2008 – Giza Art Gallery – presentation via the Internet
2008 – Orla Art Gallery, Zakopane
Collective exhibitions:
2006 – 3rd International Art Forum, Łódź
2007 – The Contemporary Ones, Adi-Art Art Gallery, Łódź
2007 – Exhibition following a plein-air artists’ get-together – Budy Lucieńskie
2007 – Contest Laureates Exhibition – Artist and Their Work, Łódź
2007 – Polish Painting Exhibition – Ostra Gymnasiet – Stokholm, Sweden
2007 – Way of the Cross Exhibition in Archcathedral Basilica – Łódź
2008 – Way of the Cross Exhibition – Basilica of Our Lady – Guadalupe, Mexico
2008 – Arts Auction Exhibition – Polish Consulate – New York
2008 – Interart – Massa Lubrense, Italy
Awards and honorary mentions:
1997 – The Władysław Strzemiński Contest – Medal of the Association of Fine Arts’ Friends of Łódź for a cycle of wood engraving works
2006 – Contemporary Painting’s Contest
– Artist and Their Work 2006 – 1st award
2007 – Scholarship at the Vico Calabrò’s Fresco School in Treglio, Italy
Bibliography:
2006/ II – Contemporary Painting – Melancholic Husband
2007 No. 17 – Faces of Education – Melancholic Husband
2008 – King – album
2008 – Agora Weekly (30/09) – Inter Art. Una Mostra di grande livello, Sorento, Italy
2008 – Dziennik Polski Daily (25/10) – Painted by Soul’s Eyes
2008 – Art and Freedom – Amnesty International, New York, USA
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