Luke Stokłosa, Versailles, 2019

gouache, paper, 20 x 25 cm signed on the reverse

origin: private collection, Cracow
Łukasz Stokłosa (b. 1986) - Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2010. He dedicated his diploma titled "Death and Desire" to the motif of St. Sebastian in culture. His first individual exhibition was "Winter Tale" (2011) at the Zderzak gallery in Krakow, where the paintings on display featured palace interiors, winter landscapes and portraits of movie stars, maintained in the artist's favorite climate of romanticism and decadence.
In 2013, Stokłosa received the Marshal's Award of the Lower Silesian Province, awarded in the Geppert Competition. In 2014, Stokłosa's paintings were included in an album by Kurt Beers, "100 Painters of Tomorrow," published by Thames&Hudson, London-New York, presenting a selection of the most promising contemporary male and female painters.
In 2015, Lukasz Stokłosa's works were presented at the exhibition "Artists from Krakow, generation 80-90″ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow - MOCAK.
He cultivates figurative painting. He usually draws inspiration from mass culture, movies and TV series. He feels well in the aesthetics of camp. His interests revolve around history and the past, their contemporary interpretations and readings. Characteristic of his paintings are homoerotic paintings directly inspired by gay pornography. In the field of his interests, a special place is occupied by the art of old masters and mistresses, whose influence in his works, can be seen both at the level of approach to the matter of painting, composition, scale and in the textual layer. Stokłosa's paintings attract and repel, they have their second and third bottoms, just like film noir. He lives and works in Cracow.
MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 - "Sol victus", The Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow.
2024 - "Cries & Whispers," Tureen Gallery, Dallas, USA
2023 - "Perihelion," AMITY, New York, USA
2023 - "Mmmelting", Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2022 - "Ambassadors. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.", Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2021 - "Cliffhanger", Krupa Gallery, Warsaw.
2020 - "Moonlight shadow," Salon of Friends of the Together Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw.
2019 - "What from the eyes, is from the heart", How to forget, Krakow.
2019 - "What from the eyes, is from the heart", How to forget, Krakow;
2019 - "In time for the night...", Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz;
2018 - "One Hundred Views," Zderzak Gallery, Krakow;
2018 - "Queen of the Night", Elementary for City Dwellers, Krakow;
2014 - "GRUPPO DI FAMIGLIA IN UN INTERNO," Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Germany;
2011 - "Winter Story," Zderzak Gallery, Krakow, Poland.

MAJOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024
- "Arcadius. Great Passions. Confrontations", Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz.
- "The scent of rotting flowers," Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz
- "Beautiful Fish in a Man-Made Pond," AMITY, Los Angeles, USA
- "Food in Art," MOCAK Krakow
2023
- "Rococo Madness," National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland
2022
- "Anxiety Comes at Dusk," Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2021
- "Into these days hustling, flaming and bewildering, I am transported by thought", Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw.
- "Silver shining tears at 3 a.m.", Death of a Man, Warsaw.
- "Frieze and Emblem," Together Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw.
2020
- "Międzyczas" Cricoteka, Kraków.
- "Time and foam" Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow.
- "Love," Shefter Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
- "And if darkness is not only blackness, what else can it be?", Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka/Slupsk.
2019
- "Black bile," Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka.
- "Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting," Abbotsford Palace, MNG, Gdansk.
- "Displacement," Krakówa Museum, Kamienica Hipolitów, Kraków.
2018 - "Capital", 16th edition of the SURVIVAL art review, Wallenberg-Pachalych Palace, Wroclaw;
2017 - "XY - New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting," MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary;
2015 - "Artists from Krakow. Generation 1980-1990″ MOCAK, Krakow;
2015 - "Double," Platan Gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
2014 - "100 Painters of Tomorrow," Beers Contemporary, London, UK;
2014 - "Uncertain places," Knoll Galerie, Vienna, Austria;
2013 - "Heat and promiscuity", Bank Pekao PROJECT ROOM - Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw ;
2010 - "Ars Homo Erotica", National Museum in Warsaw.