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8/3/2012

Mariusz Waras aka m-city

Traffic Gallery, Bergamo

"M-City has a mathematical approach to the stencil through his depiction of the city and futuristic buildings, wich does not restrict his imagination and makes him one of the most talented stencil artists of his generation. The Polish muralist already painted many huge murals during his trip: airships, train engines, paddle steamers, all as powerful as if they were out of a Fritz Lang movie. His canvases are equally powerfull, and we can't wait to see this next exhibition in Italy."
Text by Pénélope Rivière for GraffitiArtMagazine # 14 (p.126) – Paris

The Polish Artist Mariusz Waras aka m-city -recently inserted into the top10 of the world's leading street artists- will present twelve new medium-large canvases and two sculptures in 3D drawn from his notorious figures in isometric perspective view representing a SINKING SHIP (located on the floor) and LIFEBUOYS (placed on the wall)...

L'artista polacco presenterà dodici nuove tele di medio-grande formato e due sculture in 3D tratta dalle sue famigerate figure in assonometria isometrica rappresentanti una nave che affonda (posta su pavimento) e dei salvagenti (posti su muro).

Biography:
M-City born 1978 in Gdynia (Poland). A graphic artist, outdoor painter, traveller, amateur architect. Graduated from the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk where he is currently assistant lecturer in Prof. Jerzy Ostrogórski's painting studio. The author of the m-city project including several hundred murals. His work focuses on urban space. His murals may be seen in the streets of Warsaw, Gdańsk, Berlin, Paris, Rotterdam, Gent, Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Bolzano, London, Bogota, Barcelona, Valencia, Florence, Bergamo, Milan, Ancona and Prague, as well as in art galleries, including individual and group exhibitions at the Galerie Itinerrance in Paris (2010), the Brooklynite Gallery in New York (2010), the Carmichael Gallery in LA (2010), the Traffic Gallery in Bergamo (2008), the Arsenal in Poznań (2005) and the CSW Laźnia in Gdańsk (2006). In 2008 he was invited by the famous English Stenciler Banksy at Cans Festival in London, and later that year included by the international street art expert Tristan Manco into the official list of the world's most important artists of the scene stencil-graffiti (www.stencilgraffiti.com/links.html).

Also in 2008 was the only writer to have been invited to MANIFESTA 7 – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art.

In 2009 he was included in a very important publication curated by Magda Danysz “From Style Writing to Art”, and in another important book edited by Robert Klanten and Lucas Freiress “Beyond Architecture, imaginative buildings and fictional cities”. During February 2010 he was invited by the Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu for his first very big installation for a Museum.

His most big wall, 11 floors high, was chosen for the cover of the publication “Mural Art vol.2, Murals on Huge Public Surfaces around the World”.

He recently participated in a major exhibition at Bozar ou le Palais des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles for the group show “The Power of Fantasy – Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland”, together with artists like Wilhelm Sasnal, Piotr Uklanski, Monika Sosnowska and many others.

Image: Planelips, Draft for New Canvas, 100x150cm, 2012, Courtesy Traffic Gallery

Opening friday 9 March time 19:00-21:30

Traffic Gallery Contemporary Art
via San Tomaso 92 - 24121 Bergamo

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