Bartosz Czarnecki (b. 1988), Caravaggio - Rest during the flight to Egypt, 2020

oil, canvas, 130 x 150 cm, signed on the back: 'B CZARNECKI |Caravaggio - Rest during the flight to Egypt| 150 x 130 cm | oil on canvas'.

Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in 2013). Multiple scholarship recipient, including the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2016, 2012); Creative Scholarship of the President of the City of Krakow (2015); Sapere Auso Scholarship (2012); Grazell Scholarship in Painting (2011); Prof. Janina Kraupe-Świderska Scholarship (2011). In 2015, he won the Grand Prix in the national painting competition "New Image / New Look" (University of Arts in Poznań). In 2014, he received the Second Prize in the national Leon Wyczółkowski painting competition (District Museum, Bydgoszcz). In 2013 he was awarded the Grand Prix in the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation painting competition in Warsaw, and won the Audience Award and Honorable Mention in the national painting review "Fresh Blood" (Socato Gallery, Wroclaw). Selected solo and group exhibitions: 2018 - "SIGN", IAGA Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2017 - "Triangle", Polish Institute in Dusseldorf (Germany); 2017 - "Reproductions", Stalowa Gallery, Warsaw; 2016 - "CUBE", Polish-German Art Biennale, Krakow; 2016 - "Father a glazier, mother a glass", Henryk Gallery, Cracow, 2016 - "Work in progres" Cracovia Hotel, together with Michał Sroka, exhibition organized as part of Cracow Gallery Weekend | KRAKERS; 2015 - "Kompas Młodej Sztuki", Minus -1 Gallery of the Polish Olympic Committee, Warsaw, 2015 - "3 x YOUNG POLISH PAINTERS", La Xina A. Gallery.R.T. Barcelona; 2015 - "Fading Memory - On the Fading of Memories," Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe, Germany; 2015 - "New Image/New Look," University of Arts Gallery, Poznań, Poland; 2014 - "REST-ART-WORK," Municipal Power Plant Hall at 19 Wawrzyniec St., Cracow, Poland; 2013 - PMS Fresh Blood, Socato Gallery, Wrocław, Poland; 2013 - "Entry forbidden," Quelle premises, Nuremberg (Germany).