Michal MISIAK (b. 1973), F-2, 2016

oil, canvas, 100 x 100 cm;
On the back signature with author's description: MM (tied monogram)
/ MICHAŁ MISIAK 2016 / "F-2" / OLEJ / 100 x 100 cm.
Studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma in 1999 with honors in the studio of Prof. Stanislaw Rodzinski with a graphic annex in the woodcut studio of Prof. Zbigniew Lutomski. He currently works as an assistant professor in the drawing and painting studio at the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He cultivates creativity in painting, graphics, drawing and photography. Recently, he has also been creating moving video images. He has received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and has won more than a dozen prizes and awards. He is the author of 24 solo exhibitions, and participant in more than 100 group exhibitions. Since 2004, he has been a participant in open-air workshops for artists using the language of geometry by Dr. Bozena Kowalska. His works are in the collections of the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, the Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, the Jerke Museum in Recklinghausen, the International Triennial of Graphics in Cracow, the Museum of Borderlands in Lubaczów, and in private collections in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the USA.
(Source: artemis.art.pl)

"In the most general terms, Michał Misiak's painting is categorized as a geometric trend. The mechanism of action of his paintings is analogous to that used by the classicists of op art: the course of closely spaced parallel or densely intersecting lines vibrates the surface, revealing the relativity of two-dimensions. Spaces that exist not on the basis of the mutual arrangement of objects in perspective are revealed, not "painted in the picture," but directly expressed by the painting. Thus, a painting work does not "represent" or "depict" any object in the visible world, but refers to the arche, to the fundamental principle of the existence of this world. Well, at any rate, basic according to the Pythagorean concept. And this principle was number, and therefore - proportion, and therefore - harmony, and therefore - golden division, and therefore - symmetry."
Andrew Stembarth Sawicki
(Text accompanying the exhibition: Michal Misiak's "Dynamic Structures," SOCATO Gallery, 2013)