These urban landscapes by Jan Wojciech Malik come from a collection of works painted using acrylic paints. Photography was their source of inspiration. After capturing everyday moments on film, the artist processes the images into canvasses. The paintings only include fragments of the photographs, tightly cropped images that our selective perception of the world often ignores. Pavements, fragments of human silhouettes, a biker's shadow, or a pigeon on the cobblestones are some of the characteristic elements in the painter's works that he would like us to notice. Jan Wojciech Malik's paintings restore the reality that we fail to perceive in our daily lives.

Jan Wojciech Malik (born 1951) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (the ateliers of Prof. T. Brzozowski and Prof. S. Teisseyre). His paintings have been shown in 22 solo exhibitions in Poland, and more than 120 exhibitions of Polish painting in Poland and abroad (London, Chicago, Berlin, Ankara, Budapest, Vienna, Kiev, Prague, New York). Collections of Jan Wojciech Malik's paintings can be found at the National Museum in Poznań and in Szczecin.