Tomasz Vetulani

He was born on 21 December 1965[1] in Kraków as the second son of Jerzy Vetulani and Maria née Pająk, younger brother of Marek.

He studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, at the Faculty of Painting (1986–1991), and graduated from the studio held by professor Juliusz Joniak.

In 1992–1993 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, holding a scholarship from the Flemish Community of Belgium and the Minister of Culture of Poland.

The critics of Tomasz Vetulani's work noticed that “the artist juggles with ease and defiance with various means of expression and media”[10] creating critical works with "strong social and political connotations”,[10] “mocking and ironic character”,[11] in which he looks at Poland “with great concern (...) from the perspective of an emigrant, from the differently shaped, both culturally and socially, Netherlands, which has become his new homeland”,[11] yet on the other hand he creates “subtle images-objects”,[10] showing mostly a female figure,[12] in which he “deliberately rejects the classic beauty of a figure in favor of fragility, transience or simply greater sensitivity to what is present”.

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