Mikołaj Kasprzyk
Painter, known for Renaissance-inspired, surreal figurative works
Mikołaj Kasprzyk – Polish painter, known for surreal figurative works and poetic symbolism
Warsaw 1953
The artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and received his diploma in 1977 in the studio of Professor Jacek Sienicki. From 1977 to 1989, he worked as an assistant and associate professor at the Faculty of Painting at his alma mater. In 2001, he received the award for Best Painting of the Year in the Art & Business magazine competition.
His simple, figurative style is inspired by the art of the Italian Quattrocento, although any resemblance to Surrealism — as he often emphasizes — is purely coincidental and superficial. An ironic observer of everyday life and human relationships, his pictorial content is rendered with a highly poetic quality. His figures are based on his own photographs, for which he often poses alone, but occasionally with his wife Bogna.
He places these figures in unreal landscapes, often duplicating them in various stages of movement and performing imaginary roles, such as dueling couples, dancers, musicians, or jugglers.
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