Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski
artist and painter (1942-2016)
Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski (Polish pronunciation: [ɛuˈɡɛɲuʂ ˈɡɛnɔ mauˈkɔfski]; 5 September 1942 – 20 August 2016) was a Polish painter. Małkowski was a professor of contemporary art at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, founder of artistic groups and associations throughout Poland, organizer of modern art exhibitions, and popularizer of art. He was known for his speed painting happenings in which he invited people to paint together. In 2005, in Bełchatów, he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24-hour-long-painting performance.
Biography
He was born in Gdynia. After World War II, his family moved to Lębork where he spent his childhood. He started artistic education in 1957 at Graphical Secondary School in Wrocław and continued studying at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with the professors Juliusz Studnicki and Artur Nacht-Samborski. In 1969 he founded the artistic group Arka and in 1972 he transformed it into a bigger generational movement (80 creators) known by the name O Poprawę (For the Enhancement) with which he organized 9 group expositions. In the 1980s he co-founded the multidisciplinary art group Świat (World) and organized 18 group expositions. In the 1990s he passed several years in France where he founded the artistic association ARA (Association for Renovation of Art) and organized several group exhibitions of modern Polish art.
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