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Piotr Młodożeniec (born 17 July 1956) is a graphic artist, painter, illustrator, designer, and author of animations, book and newspaper illustrations, and even neon light compositions. He was born on, in Warsaw.

Piotr Młodożeniec comes from an artistic family: he is the son of Jan Młodożeniec, one of the most outstanding representatives of the so-called Polish poster school and a brother of Stanisław Młodożeniec, a painter who lives in the US.

From 1976 to 1981, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, firstly painting with Professor Teresa Pągowska, then book illustration with Professor Janusz Stanny, and eventually obtained his diploma in 1981 in the poster workshop of professor Henryk Tomaszewski.

In 1991, together with Marek Sobczyk, Młodożeniec founded the Zafryki artistic partnership, a company designing posters, illustrations and applied graphics. He was a co-founder of the School of Arts (1991), located for a number of years in the attic of a house on Nowy Świat Street in Warsaw. The school operated outside the official structures of artistic education.

In 1993, he received the Grand Prix at the Poster Festival in Chaumont. In 1998 he was awarded a silver medal at the 16th International Poster Biennale in Wilanów (category - cultural events). He lives and works in Warsaw. Piotr Młodożeniec was one of the first artists in Poland to use technology and the language of computer images in graphics. His designs were influenced by pop art and the emerging Neo-expressionism of the 1980s, as well as the work of two graphic artists, masters of the poster – his father Jan Młodożeniec and Professor Henryk Tomaszewski.

The end of the 1970s and the next decade, which in Poland was dominated by underground art originating from the political opposition to martial law, also left a significant mark on the art of the youngest member of the Młodożeniec family. This is when his urban art was shaped, as he called it in one interview, characterised by the use of templates, spray and screen-printing, simple and powerful means of expression.

This is how Młodożeniec describes his art:

My artistic work can be divided in two categories: painting which I do while thinking about myself and potential viewers, and applied graphic art which I create together with Marek Sobczyk.

Piotr Młodożeniec made his debut in the 1980s, at the same time as the Luxus group from Wrocław and Gruppa from Warsaw. From the very beginning he developed his own poster style based on expressionist aesthetics (influenced by Młode Dziki) and conscious simplification of forms created primarily using templates and computer drawings. The characteristic features of his early prints were angular, template letters, comic characters’ silhouettes, grey, black and white. At that time, Młodożeniec created a short series of posters which he reproduced using the screen-printing technique. From 1981 he designed, printed and distributed Christmas cards and occasional prints, often with a political character (the artist was associated with the underground ‘Solidarity’). Młodożeniec's posters, screen-printed on wrapping paper, were present at most cultural and music events dedicated to independent art in the 1980s. He produced them for the exhibitions of his colleagues, such as Ryszard Grzyb, Paweł Jarodzki, Włodzimierz Umiastowski, Jacek Ziemiński and others. Search Contrast Open Menu Close Menu Languages Englishpolski Main Topics More Topics Podcast Book All Our Projects Artists & Works Index Piotr Młodożeniec, photo Wojciech Łaski/East News Piotr Młodożeniec, photo Wojciech Łaski/East News
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Piotr Młodożeniec 17.07.1956 Author: Culture.pl Share:FacebookTwitter Piotr Młodożeniec is a graphic artist, painter, illustrator, designer, and author of animations, book and newspaper illustrations, and even neon light compositions. He was born on July 17th, 1956, in Warsaw.
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Get our newsletter! Piotr Młodożeniec comes from an artistic family: he is the son of Jan Młodożeniec, one of the most outstanding representatives of the so-called Polish poster school and a brother of Stanisław Młodożeniec, a painter who lives in the US.

From 1976 to 1981, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, firstly painting with Professor Teresa Pągowska, then book illustration with Professor Janusz Stanny, and eventually obtained his diploma in 1981 in the poster workshop of professor Henryk Tomaszewski.

In 1991, together with Marek Sobczyk, Młodożeniec founded the Zafryki artistic partnership, a company designing posters, illustrations and applied graphics. He was a co-founder of the School of Arts (1991), located for a number of years in the attic of a house on Nowy Świat Street in Warsaw. The school operated outside the official structures of artistic education.

In 1993, he received the Grand Prix at the Poster Festival in Chaumont. In 1998 he was awarded a silver medal at the 16th International Poster Biennale in Wilanów (category - cultural events). He lives and works in Warsaw.

Piotr Młodożeniec, works from the exhibition Canvases, Halftones – Image Gallery 1 / 8 Piotr Młodożeniec was one of the first artists in Poland to use technology and the language of computer images in graphics. His designs were influenced by pop art and the emerging Neo-expressionism of the 1980s, as well as the work of two graphic artists, masters of the poster – his father Jan Młodożeniec and Professor Henryk Tomaszewski.

The end of the 1970s and the next decade, which in Poland was dominated by underground art originating from the political opposition to martial law, also left a significant mark on the art of the youngest member of the Młodożeniec family. This is when his urban art was shaped, as he called it in one interview, characterised by the use of templates, spray and screen-printing, simple and powerful means of expression.

This is how Młodożeniec describes his art:

My artistic work can be divided in two categories: painting which I do while thinking about myself and potential viewers, and applied graphic art which I create together with Marek Sobczyk.

Piotr Młodożeniec made his debut in the 1980s, at the same time as the Luxus group from Wrocław and Gruppa from Warsaw. From the very beginning he developed his own poster style based on expressionist aesthetics (influenced by Młode Dziki) and conscious simplification of forms created primarily using templates and computer drawings. The characteristic features of his early prints were angular, template letters, comic characters’ silhouettes, grey, black and white. At that time, Młodożeniec created a short series of posters which he reproduced using the screen-printing technique. From 1981 he designed, printed and distributed Christmas cards and occasional prints, often with a political character (the artist was associated with the underground ‘Solidarity’). Młodożeniec's posters, screen-printed on wrapping paper, were present at most cultural and music events dedicated to independent art in the 1980s. He produced them for the exhibitions of his colleagues, such as Ryszard Grzyb, Paweł Jarodzki, Włodzimierz Umiastowski, Jacek Ziemiński and others.

Młodożeniec's posters remind of street graffiti. The artist himself points out that he does urban art, although he never created classical graffiti on walls, as he prefers to paint on paper.

Młodożeniec designs his posters using a computer, which he learnt to operate even before he started his artistic studies. According to him, the idea for a poster is first born in the imagination, and only then, starting from the marks left by the hand, from the line, does he develop it with the use of computer programs. He creates graphics by transforming severely cut and drawn patterns into vibrating pixels.

Młodożeniec attaches great importance to letters in his posters, sometimes even giving them a leading role. He is the author of the poster Lech Wałęsa. President for the Glory of the Republic, used in the election campaign by the Porozumienie Centrum party. The idea for this poster is based on a play on words with the initials of the future president, which were incorporated to represent the characteristic facial features of Lech Wałęsa. Młodożeniec highly appreciates syntheticity and conciseness in graphic signs.

Since the early 1980s, Piotr Młodożeniec has also been painting. Initially, these were large canvases on which the artist repeated individual motifs. They contained the same expressive graffiti aesthetics as his posters, but at the same time they were different from the prints due to their sharp, loud colours. Młodożeniec's paintings are unusually dynamic; human faces, commercial and emblematic signs, and outlines of urban scenes emerge from the chaos of vibrant colour patches.

I paint quickly, I paint myself as I am at that point. It is a kind of a diary.

– said the artist.

He studied at the Faculty of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1976-1981. He received his diploma in the poster studio of prof. Henryk Tomaszewski. Since the 1980s, he has been dealing with painting and graphics simultaneously, often combining them. In the 1980s, he co-created the phenomenon of the New Expression in painting, and was also a participant in the independent culture movement that contested the official artistic life under martial law. He took part in exhibitions of this trend, but above all he is the author of well-known occasional graphics, widely distributed through underground channels: Christmas cards, posters, leaflets, illustrations, signs, calendars, etc. He made them in the screen printing technique, using the first graphic computer programs. The result was a characteristic lettering, a simplified and flat human figure and a thick raster. This aesthetics penetrated into the paintings, which the artist enriched with collage elements, painting with sprays, as in graffiti, neon, etc. expression to the allusive abstraction. The artist exhibited at many private, church and independent exhibitions of the 1980s, such as "The Testimony of Presence", Warsaw 1982, the 1st National Exhibition of Young Painting "Droga i Prawda", Wrocław 1985, "What's up", Warsaw 1987 and others In the 1990s he presented his works several times together with his father Jan and brother Stanisław, a painter from New York. Since 1992 Młodożeniec has been working with Marek Sobczyk in a graphic design company called "zafryki". They design posters, billboards, and cooperate as illustrators with magazines, such as Gazeta Wyborcza. Individually, Młodożeniec is a laureate of numerous awards, including the Best Poster of Warsaw 1982, Grand Prix of the Poster Festival in Chaumont 1993, silver medal at the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw 1998.