Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 'DAMIAN | KWIATKOWSKI | 2023'.
Biography
Born in 1991, while in 2011 graduated from the High School of Art in Kalisz defending a diploma in interior decoration. Currently a student of art education in the field of plastic arts at the Kalisz branch of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, in the studio of Prof. Marek Zaborowski. Among other things, he works with photography and painting, but the main medium he uses is stencil. Thanks to it, in hand-cut stencils Damian combines almost photographic realism with graphic effects, impossible to achieve in any other technique. Damian also conducts art workshops, and for several years has been painting at street art festivals under the pseudonym "KFIATEK"; including 2008 "Szablon jam" Poznan, 2010 "Street art Silesia" Zabrze, 2010 "Szablon jam V" Warsaw, 2011 "Multi art. festival" Kalisz, 2012 "Szablon jam VII" Warsaw, 2013 "UP FEST" festival - Bristol, England (largest graffiti and street art festival in Europe), 2013 "Szablon jam VIII" Warsaw, 2013 "Focus festival" Goerlitz, Germany.
He has already exhibited his paintings in: 2010 "Consumption of naive art" in? Kalisz, 2010 "Cyanotype" Szczecin, Berlin, Paris, Madeira, 2011 center of culture and art in Kalisz, 2012 in (Sparkasse) Hamm, Germany, 2012 "POTFARZE" in Gallery "The rootz" in Poznan. Mentions of him can also be found in publications; "Graffiti in Poland 1940-2010" and "Polish street art II".
