Dimensions: 100 x 81 cm
signed p.d.: '[artist's monogram]'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Jarek Mankiewicz | "Kosmos II" | 2024 | [artist's monogram]'.
Biography
Graduate of Graphic Design at the Faculty of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and co-founder of the Warsaw animation studio Czwarta Rano. He earned a diploma in printmaking (etching) in the Gravure Print Studio under Prof. Artur Popek. After receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree, he worked at the university, teaching digital printmaking and composition, as well as collaborating with the intaglio and relief printing studios.
He later moved to Warsaw, where he worked in graphic design and motion design. He has lived and worked in Portugal for several years, regularly participating in exhibitions, art fairs and auctions in Portugal and Poland. In 2025 he was artist-in-residence at the Guarda Museum during the SIAC #8 International Symposium on Contemporary Art, and in the fall of the same year he presented a solo exhibition at the Castra Leuca Arte Contemporânea Gallery in Castelo Branco.
He works mainly in acrylic with laser medium. Applying semi-transparent layers of paint allows him to achieve subtle differences in value and give his compositions depth. He is inspired by architecture, typography and real objects, which he transforms into abstract, interpenetrating forms. In his works he seeks a balance between geometric precision and the natural imperfection of textures.
