Dimensions: 200 x 180 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'MICHAEL BORUTA | "ZMIERZCH" from the series "EDEN" | 1988 R. | OL. PL. 200 X 180 CM'
Provenance
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Tadeusz Boruta painting and drawing", KIK Gallery, Cracow, 1988
"Tadeusz Boruta painting and drawing", Pulawy Cultural Center "Chemist's House", Pulawy, 1988
"Bajek - Boruta", Palace under the Rams, Cracow, 1989
"In image and likeness", former Norblin works, Warsaw, 1989
Joint exhibition with Grzegorz Bednarski, SARP Gallery, Warsaw, 1990
"Paradise Lost," Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 1989
"Figures rationale", Palace of Art, Cracow, 1997
Literature
Paradise Lost. Polish art in 1949 and 1989, Andrzej Bonarski Publishing House, [ed.] Ryszard Ziarkiewicz, Warsaw 1990, p.59 (il.);
PATOS.Documentation of his own creative and exhibition activity within the independent culture movement of the 1980s,Publishing House of the University of Rzeszow, [ed.] Tadeusz Boruta, Rzeszow, 2025, p.181 (ill.).
Biography
In 1979-83 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received his diploma in the studio of Stanisław Rodziński and Zbylut Grzywacz. At the same time, from 1980-1984, he studied philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow. From 1998-2004, he worked as a teacher at the European Academy of Art in Warsaw. He does painting and drawing, and is the author of numerous exhibitions (both during martial law and now). Author of texts on art published in "Tygodnik Powszechny" and "Znak", among others. In the 1980s, he actively participated in the opposition movement of independent culture. At that time, his distinct formula of painting was appreciated and identified with the tradition of "Krakow figuration", which he co-created with Grzegorz Bednarski and Aldona Mickiewicz. In 1996 he made polychromy in a church in Lubien, and in 2001 in Harbutowice near Sulkowice. Since 2004 he has been affiliated with the University of Rzeszow, where he leads the Monumental Painting Studio at the Faculty of Art. In 2003 he defended his doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and in 2005 his habilitation thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
