Victor Jackowski (b. 1987), We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors, 2019

oil, canvas, 80 x 120 cm, signed on the back

Born in 1987 in Kielce, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow's Faculty of Painting in 2011, defending his diploma under Prof. Stanislaw Rodzinski. In 2010, he completed an internship under the Socrates-Erasmus program at L'école Estienne in Paris. In 2013, he did painting work on the Caribbean island of Aruba. From 2013 to 2015, he lived in Gdansk, Poland, working as a designer for the Oscar-nominated painterly animation film "Loving Vincent." In 2016, he moved to Athens to oversee the Greek studio for this production. Since 2020, he has been living and working

in Warsaw.

Author of 10 solo exhibitions in Kielce, Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk

and Salzburg. Winner of the 2nd prize in the Dystans Art Competition in 2020. Finalist of the 1st Biennale of Painting "Lublin Spring" in 2021, and the 22nd National Review of Young Painting PROMOCJE 2012 BWA in Legnica. Winner of the award of the BWA in Sandomierz, Przedwiośnie 41 in 2018. BWA in Kielce. Participant in many group exhibitions, including the 2019 Krakow Salon of Art.

His paintings illustrate broadly defined issues of a sense of alienation, the relativity of values and a deficit of content. In illustrating these issues, he uses realism, which he often reduces in terms of color and composition to emphasize the expression of the portrayed scene. The starting material for his paintings is usually photographs he has taken, although he also happens to paint stills from films or photographic press materials.