acrylic, canvas; 160 x 120 cm;
Signed and dated on the back: "Wiktor Galka / 2022";
on the stretcher stamp: "@nocnyartpatrol"
Provenance:
Night Art Patrol collection
Image exhibited:
"The world in my eyes - Night Art Patrol collection", Hugonowka, Konstancin-Jeziorna, 2022.
The painting comes with a digital certificate of authenticity from Arteïa Connect.
He studied at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, majoring in Painting. In 2021, he was awarded Best Diploma of the Year for his work , "Body as a field of ideological tensions. Initially engaged in music, over time he turned to drawing, photography and painting. In his paintings, Wiktor Galka reflects on man understood as a form. He uses transhumanist, queer and gender studies themes to consider who the man of the future is and what his social identity is. A man who is constantly transforming, whose physicality is being obliterated by the development of technology and the virtual world, whose body is becoming synthetic and free of the gender binary.
The Night Art Patrol collection was founded in 2020 in Krakow by Dr. Mariusz Horanin. Its goal is to support and promote the most interesting personalities and phenomena of contemporary painting in Poland. With the participation of private collectors, a significant collection of current painting has been created, which is successively presented at exhibitions and in the media space. The Night Art Patrol collection has a dynamic character and its mission is to actively support the activities of the most outstanding artists and artists and the further development of contemporary painting in Poland.
