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Bartek Leszczyna

He studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in 1999 he graduated with honors from Prof. Leon Tarasewicz's studio and an annex to his diploma from Prof. Edward Tarkowski's Studio of Wall Painting Technology and Techniques.

Biography

Bartosz Leszczyna (born 1974 in Warsaw) is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He defended his diploma in Prof. Leon Tarasewicz's studio in 1999 with a very good result with distinction, the annex to the diploma he defended in the Studio of Technology and Wall Painting Techniques
under Prof. Edward Tarkowski. Earlier in his studies he worked, among others, under the direction of Prof. Jan Tarasin. An important artist and educator for him was also Jerzy Mierzwiak from the Warsaw High School of Fine Arts, which Bartek graduated in 1994. 1988/89 he studied at the School of Fine Arts
in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
He has exhibited individually in Warsaw, Lublin, Zakopane, Bavaria, Austria (Innsbruck) and Cracow, and has taken part in many group exhibitions.
in Poland and Ireland. In 2014 he won first place and main prize
in the National Painting Competition Warsaw Landscape, organized by the Polish Art Gersonica Foundation as part of the "Warsaw. City of Art. City of artists". In this competition he also received the Special Award of the Founders of the Polish Art Foundation Art Gersonica and the Special Award of the Chapter. In 2000 he won the first place and the main prize in the field of painting at the 1st International Festival of Theatre and Artistic Activities "Events" in Tczew. His works are in many private collections in Poland and abroad.

'Traditional, figurative painting I deal with is inspired by my closest environment, in which I live and with which I have a natural emotional bond. I do not try to create in isolation from nature, which, even for abstraction, always seems to be a starting point, although often unconscious. Realism - although I like to reduce, process and organize it in my own way - is essentially the closest formula of expression to me. From what surrounds me, I prefer to choose the most typical, familiar, repetitive motifs. As a rule, I avoid exceptional or unusual things and phenomena, I am rather interested in filtering this inconspicuous, everyday reality in such a way that only what is important for expressing harmony remains. I look for both tensions and coherence in it.
Everything I paint is a synthesis of my natural surroundings. I ask myself different questions every day and the paintings are some kind of a resultant of all these thoughts, experiences and impressions, also purely visual. One should not try to interpret them literally, because what is unnamed is the driving force behind my work.
The biggest challenge for me in painting are formal decisions, because they ultimately decide about the final impact of a painting. The theme itself is basically just a pretext for playing with the form, but the initial motif must always make a strong aesthetic impression on me'. Bartek Leszczyna

Exhibitions
Group exhibitions

Exhibitions

03.09 - 01.10.2020 "Heaven over the Tatras", Exhibition and Conference Centre
Under the Kościuszko Mound, Karaków - individual exhibition;
28.02 -13.03.2019 "... overlooking the Tatra Mountains" gallery in the Regional Public Library in Cracow - individual exhibition;
05.05 -25.05.2018 DÉcole galleries, Innsbruck, Austria - solo exhibition;
26.11-31.12.2017 "Alpine Landschaften" ("Alpine Landscapes") - Kunstforum, Neustad an der Donau, Germany - individual exhibition;
15.11 - 30.11.2016 "Warsaw Nocturnes" - Main Library of the Mazovian Voivodeship on Koszykowa Street, Warsaw - individual exhibition;
08.12 - 21.12.2015 "Alpine Landscapes" - The Main Library of Mazovia Region on Koszykowa Street, Warsaw - individual exhibition;
24.08 - 31.12.2015 "Tatra landscapes - painting" - YAM Gallery, Zakopane - individual exhibition;
03.03 - 24.03.2015 "Where you are" - Lufcik Gallery, Artist's House, Warsaw - individual exhibition;
12.09 - 27.09.2014 "Warsaw Landscape" - Saska Kepa Culture Club, Warsaw - individual exhibition;
07-08.2014 "Tatra Mountains Motifs" - Doctor's House gallery, Zakopane
- individual exhibition;
06.2000 Painting and installation, individual exhibition - White Gallery, Lublin (catalog);

Group exhibitions

11.04.2014 Exhibition of works awarded in the competition organized by the Polish Art Gersonica Foundation within the project "Warsaw. City of Art. City of Artists" ( 1st place and Special Award of the Founding Chapter of the Polish Art Gersonica Foundation);
07 - 08.2013 News 2013, exhibition of the OWZPAP painting section (catalog);
09 - 12.2012 Project "Special Places. Masovia" - graduate touring exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw;
06 - 07.2010 "Dublin in the rare old times" - The Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- collective exhibition;
03.2010 St. Gerards School Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition in Association with Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
12.2009 Winter Show - Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
07 - 08.2009 The Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
07.2009 Summer Show - Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
03.2009 St. Gerards School Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition in Association with Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
12.2008 Winter show - Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition (catalog);
11.2008 - 01.2009 Smithfield Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
07.2008 Summer Show - Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
03.2008 St. Gerards School Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition in Association with Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition;
12.2007 Winter show - Cherrylane Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland - group exhibition (catalog);
04 - 05.2001 Exposition of Guest Studio of Leon Tarasewicz Academy of Fine Arts, BWA Zielona Góra - graduate exhibition;
16.03. 2001 "Panorama of Ursynów-Służewska". - individual conceptual work in urban space, Warsaw;
09.2000 I International Festival of Theatrical and Artistic Activities "EVENTS-Europe-2000", Tczew (1st prize in painting);
2000 "Supermarket of Art", DAP Gallery, Warsaw;
02.1999 "Silesia as a Mine of Topics", open-air exhibition, Upper Silesian Cultural Centre in Katowice - ASP Gallery (catalog);
03.1998 Post-air exhibition, Nikifor Museum, Krynica Gorska (catalog);
1997 "Odrzykoń 581", open-air exhibition, Gallery BWA, Krosno;
1997 "Supermarket of Art". - Gallery of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Warsaw (catalog);