Zbigniew Rogalski’s Untitled (1999) comes from his debut series, which was ultimately responsible for the artist’s influential and unique presence on the Polish art scene. The series explores the analysis of the mythology and formal conditions of the medium of painting. In a polemical and ironic way, the artist’s “comes to terms” with the time he spent studying at Poznań’s Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Prof. Jerzy Kałucki. It was the most important painting atelier at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, which produced many outstanding graduates.
Untitled was exhibited at Rogalski’s brief graduation exhibition at the Arsenal Municipal Gallery, and now, years later, has been acquired for the Gallery’s Collection.
O artystce
Zbigniew Rogalski, born in 1974 in Dąbrowa Białostocka, is a visual artist, painter, and author of photographic projects and installations. In 1999, he completed his diploma in Jerzy Kałucki’s studio at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 2015, he defended his PhD at the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, and in 2020 he received his habilitation at the Pedagogical University of the Commission of National Education in Kraków. Between 2000-2002, together with Hubert Czerepok, he was an active member of the duo The Magisters. During that time, he created photographs and videos. He is the winner of the Eugeniusz Geppert Competition (2001). Currently, Rogalski focuses on painting and runs a painting studio at the Faculty of Painting and New Media at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.
