Dimensions: 48.5 x 48.5 cm (clear frame)
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FRUIT OF THE LUMP | #NIKIFOR SZCZECINSKI | 'WELL YOU KNOW' | -2023-'.
Biography
Graduate of the University of Arts in Poznań. Defended his diploma in 2011 at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication and Intermedia Photography Studio. Forms of artistic activity: Urban art, Actions in urban space, street guerrilla (adbusting, architectural disturbances, leaving installations in space). The artist, hailing from the Szczecin graffiti scene, making his presence known not only in Polish urban spaces, disrupts the everyday life of the city, forcing public discourse, changing the current perception of the immediate space. He draws attention to what is overlooked in the clutter of advertisements, billboards, posters and colorful storefronts - the true colors of the street, the architecture that really makes up urban space. His realizations have been presented in Poland and abroad, among others: Spain, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Ukraine, in Sweden "Polish Urban Art" 2014 and 2017, in Indonesiai - at the Focus+ Indonesia mobile art residency (Java/Bali, Indonesia, 2014), in France - "Biennale Arts Le Havre" Le Havre and "ARTAQ" in Paris in 2012. Participant in "VI Triennale of the Young," Center for Polish Sculpture, Orońsko (2011) and "Wild Graphics. Half a century of street visual diversion in Poland 1967-2017". Poster Museum Warsaw (2017). Author of urban projects: OD/Blocking -Action Muralization, Fruit of the Lump / Analog recovery 1984 and QRWO the Ripped Films. Associated with the Up/Side Art Foundation.