MAREK GÓRNY – born on 19.04.1964 in Krakow. Graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Honours degree in the Intaglio Studio under professor Andrzej Pietsch. Diploma annex in the Painting Studio under the supervision of professor Zbysław Maciejewski (1985–1990). Earlier – a graduate of the secondary school of fine arts in Krakow, specialisation: Art exhibition (1979–1984). School leaving certificate with honours.
Passed away on February 27, 2016. He was buried in the family tomb at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Cracow. The collection is managed by the Artist's wife (contact: e-mail: iwogor@op.pl ).
IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS:
1982 – FORUM GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1991 – NORA GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1991 – TEATR SYTUACJI GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1992 – GOŁE NIEBO GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1993 – GALLERY OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, CANADA, exhibition: DISTANT WINDOWS
2002 – SUKIENNICE GALLERY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF POLISH ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS, KRAKÓW, collective exhibition: Maciejewski and his students
2003 – WEISS NOWINA KONOPKA GALLERY, collective exhibition: Time Lost…, Time Found… (Czas utracony..., czas odnaleziony...)
2004 – finalist of the “Painting of the Year 2004” competition, work from the cycle Scerfad'uana entitled Loneliness in Kayotho (Samotność w Kayotho)
2005 – KRÓLIKARNIA PALACE GALLERY, WARSAW, exhibition of the finalists of the Painting of the Year competition
2006 – CHROMY GALLERY – B. CHROMY’S PROPRIETARY GALLERY, individual exhibition: Scerfa d'uana
2009 – AUDIALNIA GALLERY, individual exhibition: Chopin’s Garden (Ogród Chopina)
2009 – ZAUŁEK GALLERY, individual exhibition: Bourgeois Nature (Natura mieszczańska)
2010 – gallery of the BEST WESTERN PREMIER hotel, individual exhibition: from the cycle Scerfa d’uana
2011 – RAVEN Gallery, Krakow, individual exhibition, from the cycle: Bourgeois Nature (Natura mieszczańska)
2011 – MM Gallery, Chorzów, Animalis 2011 post-competition exhibition
2012 – -1 Gallery, Warsaw, exhibition of the finalists of the International Sports and Art Competition 2012, sculpture, Perfect Game (Gra doskonała)
2012 – Batko Gallery, Ochojno, post-location individual exhibition from the cycle: Letters from Tuscany (Listy z Toskanii)
2014 - BWA Gallery, Rzeszów, individual exhibition, jubilee, "My South"
2014 - MM Gallery, Chorzów, Animalis 2014 post-competition exhibition
2014 - RAVEN Gallery, Krakow, individual exhibition: Shadow Doubts
2015 - The Center for Jewish Culture Gallery, Cracow, individual exhibition, from the series: My South
2015 - Gallery “Academy w Bronowicach”, Krakow, collective exhibition The Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Krakow
2016 - Batko Gallery, Ochojno, individual exhibition: "The Bridge between the Worlds"
Works in private collections in France, England, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Japan, USA and Poland.
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:
(…) Graphic works by Marek Górny are dynamic compositions using strong tonal contrast where sharp light and sharp shade going through forms or pseudo-objects create balance. (…) In contrast, in painting there is more tranquillity and lyricism. These compositions bring associations with the Polish painting of the beginning of the century. (…) Looking at the set of graphic works and images, one has also an impression of mutual supplementation, which suggests a wide array of the author’s creative abilities…
Stanisław Batruch
Fragments of the review of the exhibition at SCK “Pod Jaszczurami” Teatr Sytuacji Gallery Krakow – Main Market Square, April 1991
Marek Górny’s paintings belong to the colourist tradition which is still alive at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow from which the Artist has graduated. The greatest masters of this trend have been lecturers at this Academy. Let’s remind that the main message of colourism was seeing the reality through colour; expressing the massiveness of space with colour and the principle of colour of the entire field of image as well as a sort of painter’s instinct and temperament emphasised by its representatives and art critics. (…) Marek Górny’s still lifes are hand-written letters. It must be stressed that the Artist’s hand-writing is very beautiful. He also writes straight and clearly, caring for the style and way of delivering. His paintings, like those of other colourists, are joyful paeans in honour of the beauty of the reality that surrounds us. His works manifest good and sophisticated taste in the understanding of the aesthetic beauty of things.
Antoni Szoska
Fragments of the catalogue review, May, 1998
(…) made with the expressive painting gesture of Marek Górny’s soul, they constitute the space in which a human seems to be hobbled by his own impotence.
Zofia Weiss-Nowina Konopka
Fragment of the introduction to the catalogue of the collective exhibition Time Lost…, Time Found… (Czas utracony… Czas odnaleziony)…, Krakow, March-April 2003
Marek Górny belongs to artists appreciated by a narrow group of experts and he is rather unknown to a wider audience even though the public should find interest in him as his paintings and graphic works are easily recognisable and legible in the context of the contemporary chaos, without directions, with the vanishing tested criteria. He is an artist capable of combining individual characteristics with the known codes that look fresh in his version. (…) He is not interested in new painting techniques, for example acrylic painting, as they are artificial. Contrary to numerous contemporary artists who seek modernity, he is not ashamed of his will to compose “his totally own” vision on canvas, a sort of a “different world, distant from the realistic and more harmonious one”, creating the “homogeneous closed entirety.” (…) Górny’s world is beautiful and it fascinates us both with the variety of very “Mediterranean” sketches from Sicily and from Majorca.
Jan Pieszczachowicz
Fragments of the article Niepokój uklasyczniony. Twórczość Marka Górnego (Unrest Made Classic. Works by Marek Górny) in: Kraków 2008, issue 5, pp. 86–87
(…) Marek Górny’s still lifes do not refer to the classics of the theme. He paints them in the aesthetics and painting ideology of artists from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow of the 1920s and 1930s. (…) a great deal of very decent paintings…
(AN) [Jolanta Antecka]
Fragment of a review: Dziennik Polski 2011, (7 XI), supplement: Kronika Krakowska, p. B4
Passed away on February 27, 2016. He was buried in the family tomb at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Cracow. The collection is managed by the Artist's wife (contact: e-mail: iwogor@op.pl ).
IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS:
1982 – FORUM GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1991 – NORA GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1991 – TEATR SYTUACJI GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1992 – GOŁE NIEBO GALLERY, KRAKÓW
1993 – GALLERY OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, CANADA, exhibition: DISTANT WINDOWS
2002 – SUKIENNICE GALLERY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF POLISH ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS, KRAKÓW, collective exhibition: Maciejewski and his students
2003 – WEISS NOWINA KONOPKA GALLERY, collective exhibition: Time Lost…, Time Found… (Czas utracony..., czas odnaleziony...)
2004 – finalist of the “Painting of the Year 2004” competition, work from the cycle Scerfad'uana entitled Loneliness in Kayotho (Samotność w Kayotho)
2005 – KRÓLIKARNIA PALACE GALLERY, WARSAW, exhibition of the finalists of the Painting of the Year competition
2006 – CHROMY GALLERY – B. CHROMY’S PROPRIETARY GALLERY, individual exhibition: Scerfa d'uana
2009 – AUDIALNIA GALLERY, individual exhibition: Chopin’s Garden (Ogród Chopina)
2009 – ZAUŁEK GALLERY, individual exhibition: Bourgeois Nature (Natura mieszczańska)
2010 – gallery of the BEST WESTERN PREMIER hotel, individual exhibition: from the cycle Scerfa d’uana
2011 – RAVEN Gallery, Krakow, individual exhibition, from the cycle: Bourgeois Nature (Natura mieszczańska)
2011 – MM Gallery, Chorzów, Animalis 2011 post-competition exhibition
2012 – -1 Gallery, Warsaw, exhibition of the finalists of the International Sports and Art Competition 2012, sculpture, Perfect Game (Gra doskonała)
2012 – Batko Gallery, Ochojno, post-location individual exhibition from the cycle: Letters from Tuscany (Listy z Toskanii)
2014 - BWA Gallery, Rzeszów, individual exhibition, jubilee, "My South"
2014 - MM Gallery, Chorzów, Animalis 2014 post-competition exhibition
2014 - RAVEN Gallery, Krakow, individual exhibition: Shadow Doubts
2015 - The Center for Jewish Culture Gallery, Cracow, individual exhibition, from the series: My South
2015 - Gallery “Academy w Bronowicach”, Krakow, collective exhibition The Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Krakow
2016 - Batko Gallery, Ochojno, individual exhibition: "The Bridge between the Worlds"
Works in private collections in France, England, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Japan, USA and Poland.
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:
(…) Graphic works by Marek Górny are dynamic compositions using strong tonal contrast where sharp light and sharp shade going through forms or pseudo-objects create balance. (…) In contrast, in painting there is more tranquillity and lyricism. These compositions bring associations with the Polish painting of the beginning of the century. (…) Looking at the set of graphic works and images, one has also an impression of mutual supplementation, which suggests a wide array of the author’s creative abilities…
Stanisław Batruch
Fragments of the review of the exhibition at SCK “Pod Jaszczurami” Teatr Sytuacji Gallery Krakow – Main Market Square, April 1991
Marek Górny’s paintings belong to the colourist tradition which is still alive at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow from which the Artist has graduated. The greatest masters of this trend have been lecturers at this Academy. Let’s remind that the main message of colourism was seeing the reality through colour; expressing the massiveness of space with colour and the principle of colour of the entire field of image as well as a sort of painter’s instinct and temperament emphasised by its representatives and art critics. (…) Marek Górny’s still lifes are hand-written letters. It must be stressed that the Artist’s hand-writing is very beautiful. He also writes straight and clearly, caring for the style and way of delivering. His paintings, like those of other colourists, are joyful paeans in honour of the beauty of the reality that surrounds us. His works manifest good and sophisticated taste in the understanding of the aesthetic beauty of things.
Antoni Szoska
Fragments of the catalogue review, May, 1998
(…) made with the expressive painting gesture of Marek Górny’s soul, they constitute the space in which a human seems to be hobbled by his own impotence.
Zofia Weiss-Nowina Konopka
Fragment of the introduction to the catalogue of the collective exhibition Time Lost…, Time Found… (Czas utracony… Czas odnaleziony)…, Krakow, March-April 2003
Marek Górny belongs to artists appreciated by a narrow group of experts and he is rather unknown to a wider audience even though the public should find interest in him as his paintings and graphic works are easily recognisable and legible in the context of the contemporary chaos, without directions, with the vanishing tested criteria. He is an artist capable of combining individual characteristics with the known codes that look fresh in his version. (…) He is not interested in new painting techniques, for example acrylic painting, as they are artificial. Contrary to numerous contemporary artists who seek modernity, he is not ashamed of his will to compose “his totally own” vision on canvas, a sort of a “different world, distant from the realistic and more harmonious one”, creating the “homogeneous closed entirety.” (…) Górny’s world is beautiful and it fascinates us both with the variety of very “Mediterranean” sketches from Sicily and from Majorca.
Jan Pieszczachowicz
Fragments of the article Niepokój uklasyczniony. Twórczość Marka Górnego (Unrest Made Classic. Works by Marek Górny) in: Kraków 2008, issue 5, pp. 86–87
(…) Marek Górny’s still lifes do not refer to the classics of the theme. He paints them in the aesthetics and painting ideology of artists from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow of the 1920s and 1930s. (…) a great deal of very decent paintings…
(AN) [Jolanta Antecka]
Fragment of a review: Dziennik Polski 2011, (7 XI), supplement: Kronika Krakowska, p. B4
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