Slawomir Rumiak, (b. 1972)
The Violin of Kaimurakis, 2003
Gelatin-silver print/baryta paper
44.4 x 39 cm
Private collection
Sławomir Rumiak is a photographer, video and installation artist, and draughtsman. He is a graduate of the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1999). Rumiak was born in 1972 in Bielsko-Biała.
He gained international recognition very early on, when he was still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (which at the time still formed part of the Kraków Academy). In 1998, Koichi Sato, a Japanese poster designer visited the school upon Jan Sawka’s invitation, and was drawn to Rumiak’s expressive black and white photographs. As a result, the young artist was invited to Tokyo by the prominent photography theoretician Kōtarō Iizawa and the legendary photographer Eikoh Hosoe. In 1999, the Polish artist gave a series of lectures for the latter’s students, while the Il Tempo gallery (owned by the renowned collector Etsuro Ishihara) organised a solo exhibition by Rumiak.
With time, the artist was becoming increasingly interested in film – especially the relationship between film and still photography, as well as between film and space (both the screening and recording site).
Sławomir Rumiak is currently working on medium- and full-length film projects. One of them was presented at the collaborative exhibition with Cristiano Mascaro titled Traces of People, which took place in 2015 at the International Cultural Centre in Kraków. The show featured Rumiak’s film essay Macunaima Returns to São Paulo.
Sławomir Rumiak has remained close to Japan to this day. He has also curated two exhibitions of Japanese art in Poland: Bellmer found in Japan – Simon Yotsuya and Friends (2010, Kronika Gallery in Bytom) and Atokata (2012) – a showcase of Kishin Shinoyama’s photographs illustrating the landscape of the Tohoku region after the 2011 tsunami. Krzysztof Miękus, June 2016, transl. AM
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