Mikolaj MALESZA (1954), Ich dwoje (2019)
acrylic, canvas
92 x 65 cm
Signed and dated p.d.
Mikołaj Malesza was born in 1954 in Krynki. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Faculty of Interior Design). He received his diploma with honors in 1979. He is involved in painting, stage design and exhibitions. He has had about 40 solo exhibitions of painting, and participated in more than a hundred exhibitions of Polish painting at home and abroad, including Germany, Belgium, Holland, England, Czechoslovakia, Austria, USA, Japan, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Lithuania and Ukraine. He has won numerous awards and prizes. He is the author of about 80 stage designs. In 1991-2003 he was the stage designer of the "Wierszalin Society" theater, with which he was a three-time winner of the Fringe First award at Europe's largest theater festival in Edinburgh. For many years he has worked with puppet and drama theaters throughout Poland. He has received many individual awards in the field of stage design, and his paintings can be seen in art galleries and auction houses. In 2010, he received the Silver Medal "Meritorious to Culture Gloria Artis", awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2013, he received the ZASP's "Henry" award. INDICATIONS 2010 - Silver Medal for Meritorious Service to Culture GLORIA ARTIS.
