MATEUSZ SZCZYPIŃSKI EDUCATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ART FAIRS ACHIEVEMENTS

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1 Mateusz Szczypiński / bio MATEUSZ SZCZYPIŃSKI Born in 1984 in Piekary Śląskie, lives ans works in Cracow. Mateusz Szczypiński, author of collages and oil paintings, serves anew the patterns that have already been copied millions of times. His practice seems to respond to Walter Benjamin s theory of the disappearance of the category of authenticity and individual expression in the era of mass reproduction. Velazquez s The Infant, Van Eyck s The Arnolfini Wedding, or Manet s Breakfast on Grass these works are our visual companions from the canon of history of art. Trivialised and reproduced in various sizes and in different quality, the paintings of old masters inhabit the collective memory, retrieved from within imagination upon the keyword European painting. Szczypiński launches a game with the museum discourse he distances himself from the set of acknowledged works and uses them to produce a painted found footage. The title of one of the paintings Hamilton s What Makes Today s Homes So Different, So Appealing? perfectly expresses the spirit of his practice, which seduces with obvious quotations and plays on art history. EDUCATION 2007 Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow History of Art at Jagiellonian University in Cracow SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 BSGW, Słupsk SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Young Talents, MOCAK, Cracow 2011 ARTEXPO AREZZO, Cellar Gallery, Cracow Moon Hostel and The Movies, Galeria ODA, Piotrków Trybunalski 2010 Moon Hostel and The Movies, Galeria Manhattan, Łódź Multimedia Szajna Art Festival, Cracow Festiwal Artenalia 2010, Old Butchery, Poznań , Galeria Floriańska 22, Cracow ART FAIRS 2012 International contemporary art fair ARCOmadrid, Madrid ACHIEVEMENTS 2012 Nomination for Strabag Artaward International 2012

2 Family Secrets, x 62 cm

3 Untitled, x 55 cm

4 Untitled, x 55 cm

5 Untitled, x 76 cm

6 Untitled, x 59 cm

7 Untitled, x 55 cm

8 Untitled, x 55 cm

9 Warsaw East, x 62 cm

10 Welcome School, x 65 cm

11 Untitled, x 80 cm

12 Untitled, x 120 cm

13 Splash, x 80 cm

14 Hunting for a Prince, x 74 cm

15 Forbidden Fruit, x 46 cm

16 Untitled, x 70 cm

17 MBC4, x 46 cm

18 Eye to Eye, x 68 cm

19 Room, x 120 cm

20 Untitled, x 65 cm

21 Technoficton, Technomania, x 52 cm

22 Do You Know How To Shave?, x 61 cm

23 Last Holidays, x 65 cm

24 MBC3, x 45 cm

25 Untitled, 2011 oil on canvas 50 x 45 cm

26 What Makes Today s Homes So Different So Appealing?, x 50 cm

27 The Capping Ceremony I, x 50 cm

28 Old Woman Spring, x 65 cm

29 Infant III, x 45 cm

30 Infant IV, x 45 cm

31 Only For Women, x 70 cm

32 Untitled, 2011 oil on canvas 38 x 40 cm

33 Untitled, 2010 oil on canvas 46 x 37 cm

34 Untitled, x 55 cm

35 Untitled, x 35 cm

36 The Last Judgement I, x 50 cm

37 Bishop, x 65 cm

38 Untitled, x 70 cm

39 Infant I, x 60 cm

40 MBC, x 40 cm

41 Untitled, 2011 oil on canvas 65 x 65 cm

42 Untitled, 2012 oil on canvas 41 x 41 cm

43 Cross-word, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm

44 City 2, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 60 x 55 cm

45 City, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 70 x 65 cm

46 MBC5, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm

47 Untitled, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 56 x 45 cm

48 Untitled, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 65 x 58 cm

49 The End, 2012 oil on canvas? x? cm

50 III, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm

51 Carpet, 2012 oil on canvas? x? cm

52 Cooking lessons, 2012 collage, oil on canvas 65 x 62 cm