Meeting I, from the series Visit. Linocut. Dimensions: 73 x 51 cm
Limited edition: 3/60
Hand signature.
Leszek Sobocki - painter, graphic artist, creator of environmets, essayist, poet. He was born on November 14, 1934 in Czestochowa.
From 1953-56 he studied at the Department of Propaganda Graphics in Katowice, from 1956-1959 at the Department of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in the atelier of Waclaw Taranczewski), and from 1959-1960 at the Department of Directing of the State Higher School of Theater and Film in Lodz. In 1965, together with the Cracow painters Maciej Bieniasz, Zbylut Grzywacz and Jacek Waltos, he founded the Wprost group. Leszek Sobocki took part in 19 exhibitions of the group between 1966 and 1986, and was a participant in the Independent Culture Movement. He lives and works in Cracow.
Major awards: 1967 - Cyprian Kamil Norwid Warsaw Art Critics Award for the exhibition "Wprost"; 1962 - Prix d'achat of the 8th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphics; 1976 - First Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Art in the painting department, 6th Warsaw Art Festival; 1977 - Second Prize in the J. Spychalski in Poznan; 1978 - Grand Prix of the Winter Salon "Hommage Wyspiański", TPSP Krakow; 1981 - Grand Prix, 2nd National Triennial "Presentation of Contemporary Portrait" in Radom; 1983 - "Solidarity" Award for painting and graphic art; 1984 - Collective Award of the Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw for the Wprost group exhibition.
His works are in the collections of, among others: Moderna Kunst Museet (Stockholm); Kupferstich/Kabinet (Dresden); Museum of Modern Art (Skopje); Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Vienna); Museum of Modern Art (Lodz); national museums in Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Kielce; museums in Bydgoszcz, Szczecin, Tarnow, Radom, Torun; Silesian Museum in Katowice, Bytom; Collegium Maius UJ (Krakow).
The artist participated in about 200 collective exhibitions at home and abroad, including: "Romanticism and Romanticism in Polish Art of the XIX and XX century", "Poles' own portrait", "Artist's thought" on the 100th anniversary of Cyprian Norwid's death, "Polonia", "Images of death", "100 years of Zachęta".
