Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski

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{{cite web|url= http://www.zsp.wroclaw.pl/ossp/absolwenci_do_70.php|title= Spis Absolwentów od 1948|website= zsp.wroclaw.pl|publisher= Graphical Secondary School in Wroclaw|access-date= 29 August 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005845/http://www.zsp.wroclaw.pl/ossp/absolwenci_do_70.php|archive-date= 2 May 2014|url-status= dead}} and continued studying at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with the professors Juliusz Studnicki and Artur Nacht-Samborski.{{cite web|url=http://www.dninauki.uwm.edu.pl/odn2008/0/author/2.html|title=VI Olsztyńskie Dni Nauki: O autorze: dr hab. Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski prof. UWM|website=dninauki.uwm.edu.pl|publisher=Uniwersytet Warmińsko Mazurski|access-date=29 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130921132048/http://www.dninauki.uwm.edu.pl/odn2008/0/author/2.html|archive-date=21 September 2013}} 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.{{cite news |title= Ruch "O Poprawę" po raz kolejny|author= Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski|url= http://www.olsztyn24.com/index.php?m=1&i=8744|newspaper= olsztyn24.com|date= 20 February 2010|access-date=27 August 2013}} In the 1980s he co-founded the multidisciplinary art group Świat (World) and organized 18 group expositions.{{cite journal |last1= Malinowska|first1=Agnieszka |last2= Kossakowski|first2= Jarosław|year= 1989|title= Obrazy są jak aktorzy|journal= Kierunki|volume= 29|issue= 1709|pages= 14|location= Warszawa|publisher= Wydawnictwa PAX|language=pl|issn=0450-240X}} 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.{{cite web|url= http://g.jakubowski.perso.neuf.fr/gallery/dossier_Luneville2004/BORCZ,%20MALKOWSKI,%20KOLODZIEY.JPG|title= Salon d'Automne International de Luneville|year= 2004|language= fr|access-date= 29 August 2013|archive-date= 27 July 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140727092053/http://g.jakubowski.perso.neuf.fr/gallery/dossier_Luneville2004/BORCZ,%20MALKOWSKI,%20KOLODZIEY.JPG|url-status= dead}}

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Between 1991 and 2012 worked as a Professor of Art at UWM in Olsztyn.{{cite web|url=http://www.uwm.edu.pl/isp/pr_geno.html|title=Eugeniusz Geno-Małkowski|website=uwm.edu.pl|publisher=Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski|access-date=29 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130921132024/http://www.uwm.edu.pl/isp/pr_geno.html|archive-date=21 September 2013}}

Since 1990 he organized many happenings popularizing modern art among non specialized public. He practiced speed and time painting and invited spectators to paint with him at informal places, such as commercial centers or streets. The works created in such a way were later exhibited in art galleries.{{cite news |title= Profesor Geno Małkowski przyciąga|url= http://www.olsztyn24.com/news/7042-profesor-geno-malkowski-przyci261ga.html|newspaper= olsztyn24.com|date= 8 August 2009 |access-date=27 August 2013}} In 2005 in Belchatow he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24-hour-long-painting. He painted 100 works measuring 80 cm x 100 cm based on previously performed sketches.{{cite web|url=http://www.tap-art.pl/pl/17/art17.html|title=Próba bicia rekordu Guinessa|date=2005-09-14|website=tap-art.pl|publisher=TAP Sp. z o.o.|access-date=29 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926191952/http://www.tap-art.pl/pl/17/art17.html|archive-date=26 September 2013}}

He lived and worked in Warsaw and in Olsztyn. He has had more than 50 solo shows of his works and he has participated in over 200 group exhibitions. His paintings are held by major museums of Poland (i.a. National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Gdańsk, Toruń Regional Museum), as well as by private collectors in Poland and all around the world.

Małkowski died in hospital in Zamość, Poland on 20 August 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.olsztyn.com.pl/artykul,wielka-strata-dla-swiata-kultury-zmarl-eugeniusz-geno-malkowski,21521.html|title=Wielka strata dla świata kultury. Zmarł Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski|website=www.olsztyn.com.pl|language=Pl|access-date=2016-08-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://kultura.wm.pl/378089,Zmarl-Eugeniusz-Geno-Malkowski-Mial-74-lata.html#axzz4I6lQ0k7p|title=Zmarł Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski. Miał 74 lata|date=22 August 2016|website=kultura.wm.pl|language=Pl|access-date=2016-08-22}}

At the beginning of his career he reinvented graffiti technique applying it with stencil brushes on canvas, in a method known as tapping. In his early paintings he was depicting fantastical and heavenly backgrounds populated with stenciled human profiles, transparent spheres or outlined hands. Later he added some other irregular forms tending towards the lyrical abstraction. The names of his works were metaphorically commenting his reality (cycles: «Wielki Świat» (The Big World), «Krzyk» (Shout) or «Exodus»).{{cite journal |last1= Szemplińska|first1=Ewa |year= 1992|title= Geno Małkowski|journal= Sztuka|volume=7|issue=12|pages= 18|location= Warszawa|publisher= Studio Wydawnicze SZTUKA|language=pl|issn=0324-8232}}

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In the 1980s he introduced figurative elements and started experimenting with space division of art work (cycle «Obszary» (Territories)).{{cite journal |last1= Bogdan|first1=Małgorzata |date= 11 November 1988|title= Igraszki z wyobraźnią|journal= Głos Pomorza|location= Koszalin-Słupsk |publisher= RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch|language=pl|issn=0137-9526}} Furthermore, he implemented collage techniques mixing them up with graffiti (cycle «Współcześni» (Contemporaries)).{{cite book |last=Geno Małkowski |first= Eugeniusz|title= Catalog for the exhibition "Collage"|year= 1988|publisher= Stowarzyszenie Społeczno-Kulturalne Pojezierze|location= Olsztyn}}

In the 1990s he abandoned tapping replacing it with so-called speed painting techniques. He became closer to the basis of abstract expressionism reproducing persons or situations in a spontaneous, automatic and almost subconscious way.{{cite journal |last1= Korczak|first1=Katarzyna |date= 14 March 1999|title= Tysiące twarzy w Nowej Oficynie|journal= Głos Wybrzeża (Magazyn)|issue=12–13|location= Gdańsk |publisher= RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch|language=pl|issn=0137-9194}}

In the first decade of the 21st century he moved back to the graffiti technique superposing multicolor stencils of human shapes on monochromatic background (cycle «Pokolenia» (Generations)).{{cite book |last=Geno Małkowski |first= Eugeniusz|title= Catalog for the exhibition at the Gallery Dworek Olszewskich|year= 2005|publisher= Muzeum Regionalne|location= Bełchatów}}

In 2010 in Olsztyn he exhibited a series of 44 female nudes painted in several short sessions mixing up speed painting and realistic techniques. The last nude was painted by the artist in public exhibition during the opening day.{{cite journal |last1= Mazgal|first1=Ewa |year= 2010|title= Odważny artysta, odważne modelki : wielka wystawa aktu w Galerii Rynek Miejskiego Ośrodka Kultury|journal= Gazeta Olsztyńska|issue=13|pages=3|location= Olsztyn |publisher= Wyd. AB |language=pl|issn=0137-9127}}

• 1974 Bronze Medal Award, 5th Festival of Arts, Zachęta, Warsaw
• 1975 3rd Award, Art Competition: Człowiek-plastyka na zamówienie społeczne w XXX-lecia PRL, Zachęta, Warsaw
• 1983 1st Award, Kosmos - Materia Exhibition, Elbląg
• 1984 Award, Best Museum Event of the Year, Exhibition: Niebo widziane z ziemi, Toruń Regional Museum
• 1985 Jan Cybis Prize
• 1986 Cross of Merit (Poland)
• 2010 Award, Personality of the Year, Institute of Arts, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
• 2011 Decoration for Merit to Polish Culture

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827004505/http://www.uwm.edu.pl/geno/ Web site] at the UWM

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