Pawel SLOTA (b. 1989), Cityscape, 2013

oil, canvas; 100 x 150 cm;
signed, dated and described on the reverse: PAWEŁ SŁOTA / "CITYSCAPE" / OIL, PŁ.TNO: 100 X 150 / 2013.

Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Diploma in the studio of Prof. Leszek Misiak, annex in drawing in the studio of Prof. Teresa Kotkowska - Rzepecka. He has won, among others, the 2012 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Anna Maria Siemieńska Creative Scholarship of the Grazella Foundation for outstanding young artists. He lives and works in Krakow.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2016 - Spaces Disclosed exhibition, STALOWA Gallery, Warsaw; 2016 - Kaleidoscope Endowed with Awareness, BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok; 2015 - Painting, STALOWA Gallery Showroom, Zamosc; 2014 - Spaces Disclosed, NE Fest II: Points of View, International festival for independet experimental art, Sofia, Bulgaria; 2014 - Spaces Disclosed, Kuratorium Gallery, Warsaw; 2012 - Urban Landscape, "Onamato" Gallery. , Cracow; 2011 - Traveling Landscape, Center for Contemporary Art "SOLVAY", Cracow; 2008 - Cosmic Landscape, Gallery "Wejściówka", Gazeta Wyborcza, Czestochowa.

"The painter does not reproduce nature. In his paintings, the landscape undergoes a bold and thoughtful transposition. The artist deals mainly with space already subjected to human interference. It is a "tamed" space, an urban space that man has created for himself and, finally, in which he feels comfortable. The motifs, are associated with nocturnes, the urban open air, the world in which trains and buses move. The artist paints them in motion.
Pawel Slota's working method is based on observing reality, noting interesting situations and places with his camera. So he paints streaks, ephemera of light, flashes and flickers, a world in motion that blurs the existence of object and subject. Sometimes he only contrasts this with the human figure (he introduces the self-portrait motif). This abstracting of the motif does not create a closed convention, on the contrary, it refers the viewer to purely painterly and timeless content."
Grzegorz Wnęk