Marek Radke (b. 1952, Olsztyn), 50/06, 2006

oil, canvas, 30 x 30 cm, signed on the back: 'MAREK RADKE| "50/06"| Oerlinghausen||M. radke|2006'.



European artist working in painting, installation and photography. He lives and works in Bad Driburg. From 1972 to 1978 he studied art and pedagogy at the University of Gdansk and the
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. From 1978-1983 he worked as an art teacher in Tricity schools. During the period of martial law in Poland (1981-1983), he created a series of figurative paintings,
which critically reflected the political situation at the time. After two illegal exhibitions, he left Poland in December 1983. He initially emigrated to Finland and then moved to Germany.
For his first six years in Germany, he worked at a steel mill in Paderborn. During this time he painted and exhibited a lot. Thinking back to his earliest endeavors
artistic endeavors, when he painterly built three-dimensional spatial constructions, he paints abstract, geometric compositions. For this reason, some critics classify his works
as belonging to constructivism, with the caveat that it is a freer and less analytical constructivism, or see him as a successor to constructivism, but not an imitator.
From 1992 to 1994, he studied graphic design and computer animation at the Training Center (Siemens Nixdorf) in Frankfurt am Main. He then worked until 2003
for the Historisches Museum Hochstift Paderborn in Wewelsburg as a graphic designer. Since 2000, in addition to painting, he has also taken up spatial forms, installations with
objects illuminated by UV light. In 2011, the first spatial sculptures were created He has participated in numerous over 100 solo exhibitions and over 250 group exhibitions, including in:
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Poland, South Africa, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, USA,
Hungary, Italy.