Marek Lessing, Awakened, 2016.

Marek Lessing (born 1967, Szczecinek)
Awakened, 2016.
acrylic on canvas, 80 x 70 cm

He has been painting since 1994. He started painting his first paintings in Germany using oil and later acrylic techniques, inspired by the paintings of painters such as Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Hieronymus Bosch, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Wojciech Siudmak, Jaroslaw Jasnikowski, Mariusz Lewandowski. In 2006, at the opening of an exhibition in Bydgoszcz at Węgliszek Art Café, he used the term of his painting for the first time - mystical surrealism.

Exhibitions:
1997r. Klub ,,Mózg" Bydgoszcz
1999r.Klub ,,Mózg" Bydgoszcz
2001r. Art cafe ,,Węgliszek" Bydgoszcz
2006r. Art cafe ,,Węgliszek" Bydgoszcz
2007r. College of Humanities, Bydgoszcz
2009r. Dominican Sisters Monastery,Piotrków Trybunalski
2009r. Club ,,ArtStage" Berlin Germany
2010r. House of Culture ,,URSUS" Warsaw
2013r. Kulturzentrum Minden, Germany
2015r Gallery ,,Adam Marciszonek" , Zielona Gora
2017r. Club ,,Brain" Bydgoszcz
2018r Gallery ,,Tkalnia " Zielona Gora
2018r. Art cafe ,,Kalaczakra" Wroclaw

"My art is freedom and travels in the interpenetrating earthly and cosmic worlds from the borderland of dream and java. Devoid of realism , inner visions aimed at detaching the viewer from everyday life to take him into a world of colorful , surreal fantasy."