Michal LINOW / PIKASO (1986), I've been meaning to tell you I do not care; 2013

Acrylic on canvas; 70 x 70 cm
Signed, dated, described on the back: PIKASO / 2013 / I've been meaning to tell you I do not care

An unsettling and promising street artist on the contemporary art market. He works widely in the field of painting, net art, realizes video installations and takes photographs. He has been involved in street art for more than 10 years. In his work Pikaso employs a simple arsenal of expressionistic means, used without restraint or self-control. The naivety of these means is the strength of such painting. Well-understood and consciously used primitiveness happens to be the strategy of many of the best artists. In such a reference, Michael Linow's street nickname ceases to seem merely a mockery of a museum fetish. The street context of his works adds additional meanings. He makes use of poor, degraded spaces, the kind where the nesting of crude ululations seems natural. The artist is as conscious as possible in this process, and happily avoids aestheticization and excess cultural-artistic ballast. Individual exhibitions: 2011 "Mine" - Gallery on the Vistula River - Torun; 2010 Someone tell me - Viuro Gallery - Warsaw; 2010 I had a bad day - Klub Papryka - Sopot; 2010 Pikaso at Gallery 63 - Gallery 63 - Sopot; 2010 Pikaso at the Apartments - Apartment - Gdansk. In addition, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions, and in 2010 was nominated for the Artaq street art award in the category of Painting (France).