Piotr Smogór, 1975

Ząbkowice Śląskie - Zebra, 2017
Acrylic, canvas, 70.00 x 70.00 cm
Graduated from the E. Geppert State Artistic Center in Wrocław and philosophy at the University of Warsaw, specializing in the phenomenology of image space. He most often uses painting, although his area of interest also includes drawing, monotype, film miniature and graphic design. He is a computer graphic designer by profession, which clearly affects his approach to painting as a design procedure and a way of conveying, sometimes just a general climate, thoughts, the human condition. He paints mainly figurative compositions, sometimes plays with the image as a transformation made by common digital means: computer, mobile devices, etc. For the purpose of his painting, he created the term figurative landscape, which is the canvass of the message and objectification of man in the surrounding reality. In the author's works there is an intermingling of planes and time layers of perception, which thus show the stories of human corporeality along with the limitations of its nature and aberration as a transgression of the cultural pattern. The reality of block housing, slums, and the associated aggression of the message, which aligns form with content, sometimes enters the works. Thematically, it oscillates between socially engaged art and expression framed by memories, understatements and imagery. Engagement takes the form of remaining in correspondence with what is "here and now" and thus with actions that become patterns of social behavior, with the use of new media of information influx, facts that are latent but are an undeniable attribute of being.