Slawek ZBIOK Czajkowski (b. 1982), City kids, 2012

serigraphy on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, ed. 6/25, signed.

Graduate of the Institute of Art and Plastic Culture at the University of Zielona Gora. Creator of murals and urban interventions, associated with the Wroclaw street art community. His works have also been presented in gallery spaces. He is the author of the concept of several exhibitions, including Outside Artists/Out of Sth, and the creator of a documentary film dedicated to the Urban Art environment (premiered in April 2011). He is the winner of the Grand Prix in the 9th Geppert Competition for Debuting Polish Painters in 2009, the same year he also received the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In the Ranking of Young Artists of the Rzeczpospolita daily "Kompas Młodej Sztuki 2012" he was ranked 11th. Tristan Manco, a critic specializing in graffiti, ranked him among the most interesting artists of the genre. In his book Street Sketchbook (2007), he described him with the words: "playful, full of invention, referring to the classic style of graffiti, the Ferdinand Léger of today."