Dobieslaw Gala, from the series Eyes

dry pastel on paper, 70,00 x 100,00 cm

Artist born in 1975 in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received his diploma in 2000 in the atelier of Prof. Marian Konieczny. The artist was awarded, among others, a scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, where he worked under the direction of Tim Scott. He is a recipient of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland and a winner of the Grand Prix of the 10th Triennial of Polish Contemporary Drawing, as well as many prestigious awards for artistic work. He has presented his works in more than seventy solo and group exhibitions.The artist creates compositions, which are united by the idea of searching for a metaphysical space, structure, unknown territory, where traces of his existence could have been left by an unidentified entity, event or phenomenon. Inspiration comes from global, universal but often individual, intimate, extrasensory processes of matter-matter interactions, certain tensions between the energy of solids. The compositions illustrate ideas about the ephemerality and transience of existence.