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PIOTR SZWABE vel PISZ
Mural and canvas painter, born 1975, living in Gdansk
Selected individual and collective exhibitions:
Trinity Gallery / London 1997
Bilet z Gdańska / Kolo Gallery / Gdansk 2001 (collective)
Sex, Art and Video Tapes / Modelarnia - Wyspa Institute of Art / 2002
SAM Painting Group / Baltic Art Gallery / Ustka 2003
Tower Block - Gdansk Project / SAM Painting Group - a mural in the staircase of the block in 12 Gleboka Street / Gdansk 2003
Przesyt Project / Vincent van Gogh SAM Painting Group / the Center for Contemporary Arts Ujazdowski Castle / Warsaw 2004
Naprawdę SAM / the National Museum - the Abbots' Palace / Gdansk 2004
Zaginieni w akcji (akcja / interwencja) / Vincent van Gogh SAM Painting Group / the Center for Contemporary Arts Laźnia / Gdansk 2005
Gentelmens Story Club / Zamek Culture Center / Poznan 2005 (collective exhibition)
Podróż na Północ (public intervention) / Vincent van Gogh SAM Painting Group & Ratansalmi (forest) / Finland 2005

Wyborcy czy wyznawcy / Inner Spaces Gallery / Poznan 2006 (individual exhibition)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
London College of Art Scholarship / 1997
The Major of Sopot Award for creating a mural commemorating the 100th anniversary of the city / 2000
Gdansk Cultural Scholarships / 2000 - 2002
Pomorskie Region Marshall Grant / 2003 - 2007
Pomorskie Region Marshall Award for the series of murals related with 25th anniversary of founding Solidarity movement / 2006

A few words on painting (Piotr Szwabe vel Pisz)

I try to document what I can see around me, especially a street surrounding. The silhouettes are painted casually, drowning in a color. They emerge from it in a way resembling graffiti tags, sprayed over the walls, out of a natural need to leave a mark of one's presence in a particular place.

My paintings are meant to be tranquil, as if they were born under the eye lids, vague and imponderable. They remind me blurred memories watched from behind a steamy or wet window pane. Their characteristic outline and fragments are the beginning of generating a primary energy, which is of a major importance to me.