Known primarily as a painter using traditional methods. Graduate of the Katowice Branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received a cum laude diploma in the graphic design studio of Professor Tomasz Jura and the drawing studio of Professor Jacek Rykała (1995). Currently, Tobis heads a painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Selected collective exhibitions: Re(co)naissance of Painting, Art Biennial of the Upper-Silesian Cultural Centre, Katowice (2007); The Red Eye Effect. Polish Photography in the 21st Century, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2008); Alternatif Turistik, the Kronika Gallery, Bytom (2009); Energy Class B, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (2009). Works in the collections of: Upper-Silesian Museum in Bytom, Silesian Museum in Katowice, Silesian Collection Signs of Time, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and in private collections.
2006 (2 works), 2007 (8 works)
lambda prints, Kodak Professional, mounted on 5 mm board, laminated,
51 x 36 cm (each),
signature, date and author`s stamp on the reverse,
edition: 1/7
In the A-Z Educational Cabinets series, the author decided to reconstruct the Illustrated Dictionary of German and Polish Language, published in Leipzig in the 1950s. Each photograph is assigned a dictionary entry in Polish and German along with an index number. The entries are found "in the field", and their background is the chaotic rural landscape of modern Poland, in particular Upper Silesia.
Selected exhibitions of the project: Kronika Gallery, Bytom (2007); Polish Institute, Berlin (2008); Polish Institute, Düsseldorf (2009); Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2012), the Doubly Regained Territories exhibition.
Known primarily as a painter using traditional methods. Graduate of the Katowice Branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received a cum laude diploma in the graphic design studio of Professor Tomasz Jura and the drawing studio of Professor Jacek Rykała (1995). Currently, Tobis heads a painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Selected collective exhibitions: Re(co)naissance of Painting, Art Biennial of the Upper-Silesian Cultural Centre, Katowice (2007); The Red Eye Effect. Polish Photography in the 21st Century, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2008); Alternatif Turistik, the Kronika Gallery, Bytom (2009); Energy Class B, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (2009). Works in the collections of: Upper-Silesian Museum in Bytom, Silesian Museum in Katowice, Silesian Collection Signs of Time, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and in private collections.