Dimensions: 166 x 92 x 63 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: '"LAS VEGAS" 2000 | Robert Rumas'.
Origins
purchased directly from the artist
CCA Laznia, Gdansk
Exhibited
"At Freedom's End. Polish art after 1989," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 19.11.1999-14.01.2000;
National Museum in Warsaw, 16.03-22.04.2001; Polenmuseum Rapperswil, July-August 2001.
"GK Collection #1," Art Stations, Poznań, 18.03-17.06.2007
Literature
At Freedom's End. Polish art after 1989, exhibition catalog, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, National Museum in Warsaw 2000, pp. 70-72, (ill.)
GK Collection #1, [ed.] Paweł Leszkowicz, Poznań 2007, p. 159 (ill.).
Biography
In 1987-1991 studied at the Faculty of Painting of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk, where he attended, among others, the studio of Prof. Witoslaw Czerwonka. As a curator of exhibitions, he worked with the Wyspa Gallery in Gdansk (1988-1990), the State Art Gallery in Sopot (1993-1995), the Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdansk (1996-2001) and the Center for Contemporary Art "Laznia" in Gdansk (2000-2003). In recent years, he has been working with, among others, the "Signs of the Times" Center for Contemporary Art in Torun. He was the creator of the exhibition "Antibodies" at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in 1995. He lives and works in Gdansk. Although he is a painter by training, Robert Rumas abandoned this medium early on for other artistic means, especially objects and installations. In them, he usually takes up the problem of the contemporary identity of Polish society, based on the traditional strong role of religion and the Catholic Church, as well as other elements that build Polish mythology.
