Dimensions: 145 x 110 cm
Signed p.d.: 'T. Boruta'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'TADEUSZ BORUTA | "KNOCKING DOWN THE ANGELS" | 1994 | OL. PL. 145x110'
Exhibited
"Tadeusz Boruta, Aldona Mickiewicz. Neue Malerei", Galerie zur alten deutschen Schule, Kurt Wüthrich & Paul-Anthon Nielson,
Thun, 1994
"Tadeusz Boruta. Painting," Studio Gallery, Warsaw, 16.05-4.06.1996
"Zeit und Ewigkeit - Gegenständliche Malerei aus Polen. Aldona Mickiewicz und Tadeusz Boruta," Theater-Foyer des Augustinum
München-Neufriedenheim und der Evang.-Luth. Simeonsgemeinde, Munich, 2003-2004
"Tadeusz Boruta. Painting," Archdiocesan Museum in Cracow, 3.03-30.04.2004
"Tadeusz Boruta. Figur Rations," BWA Rzeszow, 12.03-15.04.2009
"Tadeusz Boruta. Shadow of an Empire", Villa Decius, Cracow, 5-19.12.2010
"Tadeusz Boruta. Scala Pectorum", Gallery of Contemporary Art in Przemysl, 20.05-14.06.2011
Literature
Tadeusz Boruta, Aldona Mickiewicz. Neue Malerei, cat. exhib., Galerie zur alten deutschen Schule, Kurt Wüthrich & Paul-Anthon Nielson, Thun 1994, nlb (il.)
Tadeusz Boruta. Painting, cat. exhibition, Studio Gallery, Warsaw 1996, cat. no. 14, nlb
Tadeusz Boruta. Painting, cat. wyst., ed. by Andrzej Józef Nowobilski, Archdiocesan Museum in Cracow, 2004, cat. no. 17, pp. 6, 22 (il.)
On the act, exposing oneself, eroticism. Conversation with Tadeusz Boruta, interviewed by Katarzyna Bik, Gazeta Wyborcza (Krakow), no. 66, 2004 (ill.)
Tadeusz Boruta, Figur Racje, Jedność, Kielce 2009, nlb (il.).
Tadeusz Boruta. Shadow of an Empire, cat. exhibition, Villa Decius Association, Krakow 2010, nlb (ill.)
Tadeusz Boruta. Scala pecatorum, cat. exhib., Contemporary Art Gallery in Przemysl, 2011, nlb (il.)
Biography
In 1979-83 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received his diploma in the studio of Stanisław Rodziński and Zbylut Grzywacz. At the same time, from 1980-1984, he studied philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow. From 1998 to 2004, he worked as a teacher at the European Academy of Art in Warsaw. He does painting and drawing, and is the author of numerous exhibitions (both during martial law and now). Author of texts on art published in "Tygodnik Powszechny" and "Znak", among others. In the 1980s, he actively participated in the opposition movement of independent culture. At that time, his distinct formula of painting was appreciated and identified with the tradition of "Krakow figuration", which he co-created with Grzegorz Bednarski and Aldona Mickiewicz. In 1996 he made polychromy in a church in Lubien, and in 2001 in Harbutowice near Sulkowice. Since 2004 he has been affiliated with the University of Rzeszow, where he leads the Monumental Painting Studio at the Faculty of Art. In 2003 he defended his doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and in 2005 his habilitation thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
