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photo: Paweł Guder

ABOUT

BARTOSZ NALEPA

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“When I start a new painting it’s always a new beginning for me, like being born again with the same desire and the same faith, like another chance to see the world as I first saw it.

Painting is like traveling on the joined edges of my internal and external world with only one purpose: to represent the truth as an image, as a result, as a destination.

 Painting is a diary entry of my own feelings and my paintings are my emotional landscapes with an intuitive choice of artistic tools. I rarely use a paintbrush and predominantly create with my own organic tools, which leave an organic trace of different types of bristles or grasses.

I am a worshipper of beauty and truth; I believe in a healing force of nature and its peaceful drama.

I am in a constant search for new ways of presenting the illusion of space. What inspires me is traveling through the wilderness, listening to the experimental music and studying Japanese woodblock print.

I work with improvising musicians and create live visual performances, this way I care for my intuition.

My art is a constant journey and countless re - births.”

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Bartosz Nalepa is a contemporary painter and performer residing in Rzeszow, Poland.

In 1997 Nalepa graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and has created numerous paintings and graphics since.

Nalepa collaborates with a Polish jazz performer the PITZ, creating a unique relationship between music and moving images, known as Swiecenie, The Shining.

 

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:

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  • FLORA, Galeria za Rogiem Rzeszów Poland 2020

  • Artefacts 2019 Przemysl Poland 2020

  •  POND Galeria Varietes Kraków Poland 2019  

  • KONFRONTACJE Contemporary Polish Paintings, BWA Gallery Rzeszow Poland 2019

  • FRIDA.INTROSPEKCJE International Art and Science Project  Rzeszow Poland  2018   

  •  BWA Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Sculpture of the Year 2018 Rzeszow   Poland

  •  International Carpathian Triennale Galeria ARP Krasiczyn Poland 2018

  •  ABSTRACTION, Art. Nou Mil Lenni Gallery Barcelona Spain 2017

  •   ARTEHOS International Art Fair, Barcelona Spain 2017

  •   BWA 55 years Jubilee Exhibition Rzeszow Poland 2016

  • “WILLOW – Individual Painting Exhibition Bartosz Nalepa” –  "Gallery OLYMPIA" in Cracow 2016

http://www.olympiagaleria.pl/en.bartosz_nalepa.html

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  • "LOW TIDE" – Individual Painting Exhibition Bartosz Nalepa - BWA in Rzeszow  2016

        http://rzeszow.tvp.pl/23826576/wystawa-malarstwa-bartosza-nalepy

        http://www.nowiny24.pl/imprezy/artykuly/art/9390450,odplyw-w-obrazach-bartosza-nalepy,id,t.html

        http://rzeszow.wyborcza.pl/rzeszow/1,34975,19507326,wernisaz-malarstwa-bartosza-nalepy.html

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4UnG-TBlE

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXGdmIXrzQ0

 

  •  “The Strand"– Individual Painting Exhibition Bartosz Nalepa” – "Gallery ii" in Cracow / 2015.

 

  •  International Painting Triennial of the Carpathian Region SILVER QUADANGLE 2015. ​ The Special Prize at the International Painting Triennial of the Carpathian Region SILVER QUADRANGLE 2015 under the honorary auspices of the President of Poland.

        - ARP gallery the castle in Krasiczyn, Poland / 2015

        - BWA in Krosno, Kielce and Rzeszów, Poland / 2015
        - Cris County Museum / Oradea / Romania / 2016
        - Vychodoslovenske gallery / Kosice / Slovakia / 2016
        - Miskolc Gallery / Miskolc / Hungary / 2016.

 

  •  “Abroad” Individual exhibition Bartosz Nalepa – W. Siemaszkowa National Theatre in Rzeszów / 2014.

 

  • Painting, Graphics, Drawing, Sculpture of the Year 2012, 2015 – BWA in Rzeszów / 2012 / 2015.

 

  •  38 th Painting Biennale “Bielsko Autumn” in Bielsko Biała / 2007.

 

  •  X Contemporary Art Festival in Szczecin / 2004.

 

  • Lexmark European Art Preis Award “Imaging” –  The laureate of the Polish edition of the Best European Picture competition 2004. 

        - Program Gallery in Warsaw / 2004

        - Galicia Museum in Cracow / 2004.

 

  • Polish Painting Triennial 2004 – The Special Award of Polish Art Foundation at the Polish Painting Triennial in 2004. 

        - Municipal Art Gallery in Częstochowa / 2004
        - Polish Institute in Stockholm / 2005 

        - Museum of Fine Arts in Wrocław / 2005

 

  •  “10 Years” – Contemporary Art Gallery in Kępno / 1999.

 

  •  “Promotions of the Young’98” – the National Gallery in Legnica / 1998.

 

  •  “Attitudes” –  Lower Palace TPSP in Cracow / 1996.

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