Łukasz Habiera NAWER
Born in 1980 in Łódz (PL)
Live and work in Cracow (PL)
Polish artist NAWER has been involved in street art since the mid-1990s. He graduated from the Architecture and Urbanism program in Krakow and in 2003 focused his energies on painting.. Nawer’s art has been featured in solo and group shows as well as online and in various print publications. Recently Nawer has collaborated with the Design Collective, Temporary Space, in a series of audio visual performance projects that combine his artwork with the latest in video and 3-D mapping techniques. In 2015 Takashi Murakami invited him for a solo show to his gallery in Tokyo. Nawer’s artwork was presented in galleries around the world Los Angeles , Paris , San Francisco , Marrakech , London, Tokyo, Turin, Berlin.
AESTHETICS
Nawer states that as his own style evolves, “the goal is always to strive forward in an effort to connect painting with architecture.” He does this both on and off the street, in projects including murals, canvases, and multi-media installations. This goal is pursued with aerosol, masking tape, X-ACTO blades, stencils, and precision. He often selects public and functional spaces for his large-scale work, and then creates detailed sketches at a small scale before starting on the walls. Two-dimensional surfaces are given volume, mass, color, space, and rhythm — the basic elements of architecture — as he superimposes them with geometric planes, shifting axes and multiple perspectives which result in the illusion of 3-D.
Like a deconstructed targeting computer on an x-wing starfighter, lines intersect planes / slide past or fit into or bisect other planes / dynamically shoot past shapes at sharp angles towards or away from the viewer. Nawer’s color palette reinforces the perception of depth. Black, white, and neutrals are activated with intense or fluorescent colors which punch forward. Cleanly defined shapes sometimes appear to be transparent revealing layers of geometry. At other times planes are filled with a texture of paint drips, which introduce a human quality to these perfectly executed graphics.
PUBLICATIONS
No One Missing! - Play Fonts(China),Club Interiors (Japan ),Artaq Book(FR), Brain Damage (PL), Hiro (PL), Graffiti 1940-2010 (PL)) Art&Business(PL), Vice (PL), Graffiti Goes East (PL), Polski Street Art (PL)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
San Francisco | Mirus Gallery | FAULT TOLERANCE - solo show
Indiana | Fort Wayne Museum of Art | New Contemporaries of the Abstract Movement
Denver | Mirus Gallery | RETRANSMISSION_ | group show
Los Angeles | Mirus Gallery | Sneak Peek | group show
2021
Dortmund | 44309 Contemporary Gallery | group show
2020
Krakow | Museum of Municipal Engineering | Futuronauci | installation
2019
Dortmund | 44309 Contemporary Gallery | Two of Tomorrow | duo show
Krakow | Mulitimedia instalation | NAWER x TSD
Dortmund | 44309 | group show
2018
Denver | Mirus Gallery | group show
Lublin | Brain Damage Gallery | Shapes of Mind | solo show
2017
San Francisco | Mirus Gallery | Accidental Diversion | solo show
Praha | Trafo Gallery | Polish Urban ART | group show
2016
Yokohama | Yokohama Museum of ART | Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection
Valencia | Plastic Murs Gallery | Shapes & Forms | group show
Marrakech | DavidBlochGallery | Sensitive Eye - group show
Turin | Punto618 Art Gallery | Change Perspective | solo show
Seattle | Seatlle Art Fair | KAIKAIKIKI Gallery | group show
Los Angeles | C.A.V.E Gallery | Unfinshed Thoughts | solo show
2015
Los Angeles | C.A.V.E Gallery | Lucky 7 - group show
San Francisco | 886Geary | Graffuturism 5 Year ANNIVERSARY - group show
Tokyo | KaiKai Kiki Hidari Zingaro | Colors in Shapesland - solo show
Newcastle | The Outsiders | Jednakowo Różni - group show
2014
Edynburg | GammaProforma | Rewire - group show
San Francisco | 1AM Gallery | A Major Minority - group show
Marrakech | DavidBlochGallery | Sensitive Eye - group show
San Francisco | WhiteWalls | Space//Squared - group show
Dortmund | 44309 Gallery | PL - group show
2013
Sao Paulo | Pixel Show | group show
San Francisco | Mirus Gallery | Geometry of Chance - group show
Berlin |Stroke Artfair | Monochromatic - solo show
Portland | Breeze Block Gallery | Wider Then a Postcard - group show
Paris | Open Space Gallery | Graffuturism - group show
2012
London | Blackall Studios | Futurism2.0 - group show
Paris | Espace Cardin | Artaq - group show
Munich | Stroke Artfair - Intoxicated Demons - group show
Warsaw | ArtPark | Beyond Perfection - solo show
Katowice | Katowice Street art Festival - instalation
Cracow | Nova Gallery - group show
Paris | Artaq 2012 street art awards - mantion
2011
Berlin | Stroke Artfair - Intoxicated Demons - group show
Rennes | Artaq 2011 group show
Lublin | Brain Damage Gallery - group show
Warsaw | Soho Factory - Come Inside - group show
Glasgow | Recoat Gallery - Rudimentary Perfection - group show
Berlin | superplan at formaganda - instalation
Paris | Artaq 2011 street art awards - nomination
Cracow | fabric - instalation | nawer vs temporary space design
Lyon | galerie confluences - group show
Warsaw | rempex gallery - group show
2010
Cracow | fabric - instalation | nawer vs temporary space design
Berlin | stattbad - group show
Paris | espace beaurepaire - group show
Paris | artaq 2010 street art awards - nomination
Gdansk | tuse wystaw | famous icons- solo show
Warsaw | Skwer | designers toys - group show
2007
Cracow | Baraka Gallery | iNdustrial- solo show
2006
Cracow | Baraka Gallery | AlfaNbet - solo show
2005
Cracow | Baraka Gallery | Nawer - solo show