Marek Sułek, Pink from the Stories series, 2022

acrylic, photography on canvas, epoxy resin, 120,00 x 160,00 cm

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, studios of Prof. Tarasin - painting and Prof. Winiarski - art in architecture, and Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam - department of monumental art and painting (honors for both diplomas in 1992). Lecturer at the European Academy of Photography in Warsaw from 2000 to 2010. He has had dozens of exhibitions and presentations in Europe and the USA. He represented Warsaw at the World Expo in Hanover in 2000 and in Milan in 2015. In 2003, he created an outdoor installation in New York entitled. "A Piece of Sky from Above Manhattan" (Foley Square) on the second anniversary of the WTC attacks. He is the creator of the concept "Unusual Warsaw", within the framework of which he realized a series of urban projects, including a floating sculpture - Paper Boat on the Vistula River, Disposable Sculpture - Mariensztat or Pink Tree at PKiN. For sixteen years he has been creating City of Angels in Warsaw's Praga district, where he lives and runs his own studio. In his work, he combines artificial and biological matter. He is currently continuing a series of "Stories" paintings created in a technique that combines painting with figurative photography.