Jacek Sroka, TORT NAPED, 2011

35.00 x 35.00 cm - oil, assamblage, canvas
signed l.d.: SROKA 2011sign on reverse, on canvas: JACEK | SROKA, next to: 21K61 | 2011 on the g., p. and d. of the loom strip: TORT NAPOLED FOR 35 YEARS OF THE GALLERY GiP IN WARSAW.

Jacek Sroka studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1976-81, and was a teacher at the university's Graphic Arts Department until 1989. He works simultaneously in painting and printmaking in metal techniques, mostly in color. As one of the few Krakow artists, since the 1980s he has contributed to the image of the Neo-Expressionist trend in Poland. He paints in a characteristically simplified manner, sharply defining colors and shapes, often exaggerating them in the direction of caricatured treatment of figures and situations. He does not shy away from sarcasm or even mockery, as in works with political, anti-communist overtones. His paintings are characterized by a variety of spatial shots. Particularly noteworthy is the artist's frequently used technique of multiplying reality in a single composition, which involves inscribing an image within an image. Other characteristic features of Sroka's paintings are the duplication of figures or covering the entire surface of the painting with a "raster" of duplicated small elements.