- Source: Kijewski / Kocur
Marek /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski and Małgorzata Malinowska, Polish artists, were cooperating since 1996 as /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski/Kocur duo in Warsaw, Poland. They often worked in the studios of the Centre of Polish Sculpture until the artist's death in 2007. Their works, in Polish art, was inspired by pop art and it showed the most distinct example of using pop art in the era of post-modernist experiments and reactions to the new reality and new economic-cultural situation that was forming in Poland in the early '90s.
In /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski/Kocur works, since 1996, they fulfilled and inspired each other. By using an original and self-imposed strategy called SSS – surfing, scanning, and sampling, They freely explored different aspects of contemporary visual culture. /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski / Kocur were creating eye-catching collages and spatial forms out of unusual materials like Lego bricks, Haribo sweets, artificial fur, feathers, neon tubes, precious stones and 24-karat gold. They were assembling different valued materials, things commonly defined as „high value” with what is „low value”, crossing without embarrassing the boundaries between cultural orders, by constructing wild aesthetically-semantic hybrids.
Marek /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski (/info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski)
Marek /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski (1955–2007). He was a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw between 1981 and 1985. He graduated in sculpture in the class of Professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. Between 1985 and 1987, he was a member of the Neue Bieriemiennost group with Miroslaw Bałka and Miroslaw Filonik. In the mid-1990s Kijowski became more interested in including contemporary visual culture, mainly mass culture into his works. He began using completely non-artistic materials in his pieces which were often everyday objects.
Małgorzata Malinowska (Kocur)
Małgorzata Malinowska(1959–2016) in Sopot. Malinowska studied painting at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Gdańsk, where she received a diploma in 1986 from the Faculty of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture.
Gdańsk artistic environment led Małgorzata Malinowska to paint works which differed in presenting human figures, mainly by using vivid colors. But later on, she abandoned painting and moved to Warsaw, where she worked under her professional name “Kocur”. These changes made /info/kijewski" target="_blank">Kijewski close to figurative art again.
Selected solo exhibitions
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