Wojciech WROÑSKI (born 1979), Lucky Strike, 2002

acrylic, canvas; 61 x 155 cm;
On the back a sticker with information about the painting.

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan in 2006. The artist received his diploma in the studio of Prof. Jan Świtek. He works in installation and painting. Both on canvas and in installations he subjects objects to modifications. He draws inspiration, the objects depicted, from mass culture, changing the context gives them a different meaning. Wojtek Wronski is a laureate of the Maria Dokowicz competition of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (Best Diplomas 2006). Nominated for the 8th Edition of the E. Geppert Competition, he took part in the Samsung Art Master competition (Warsaw 2006).

"Wojtek Wroński is an artist of the young generation with an interesting artistic output. He deals with painting, drawing, creates objects and installations, which are a peculiar, ironic commentary of contemporary culture. Vronsky's works are very much rooted in modernity, with all its media glitz and consumerist opulence, and refer to the aesthetics of pop-culture, graffiti. Wojtek Vronsky's objects and collages are created from ready-made elements, most often from children's toys, which, combined, transformed - or better reworked by the artist, change their "nice" character to a more gloomy one, becoming sinister icons of modernity. With ruthlessness, but also ironically, using "nice" icons for the consumer eye - symbols of American pop culture, which are as much coveted objects as toys from Pewex used to be in Poland, the artist exposes the illusory nature of contemporary culture, exposing the falsifications of media-created reality. He consistently complicates its "naturally" pleasing character, constructing ambiguous objects from the all too unambiguous, giving them a "new" nature by transforming their original form. This transposition is interesting in that it involves only a subtle change in the distribution of accents, making the uncanny crawl out of a seemingly tame thing."
(Source: artinfo.pl and press materials for the exhibition "Pangea" Piekary Gallery, Poznań 2007)