Piotr Smogór, "Resort"

60x80, oil on canvas, 2018

The artist was born in 1975 in Ząbkowice Śląskie. He graduated from the E. Geppert State Artistic Center in Wroclaw and from philosophy at the University of Warsaw, specializing in the phenomenology of pictorial space. For the purpose of his painting, he created the term figurative landscape, which is the canvass of the message and objectification of man in the surrounding reality, which he writes about in his literary sketches. Thematically, he oscillates between socially engaged art and expression framed by memories, understatements and imagery. Engagement takes the form of remaining in correspondence with the here-and-now and thus with actions that become patterns of social behavior, with the use of new media of information influx, facts that are latent but are an undeniable attribute of being.

He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions including two editions of the WPA International Art Festival and the OSTEN Biennial of Drawing in Skopje.