Artist's biograms

Cristiano Mascaro (born in 1944, Catanduva) is a photographer, architect, and lecturer. He graduated in architecture and urban planning from the University of São Paulo (diploma in 1968), where he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1995. In 1978–1988, he lectured at state and private universities.

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Having started work as a photographer in the 1960s – a photojournalist for Veja magazine – today, he is one of the most distinguishable Brazilian photographers. Today a freelancer, he has always found cityscape the central motif of his work. Among his documentation work, he has photographed Richard Serra’s sculptures, which was ordered by the artist. Mascaro is among the principal photographers of São Paulo and Brazil’s cultural heritage.

His accomplishments also include cycles devoted to the world’s largest metropolitan centres, as he has documented Buenos Aires, Havana, Berlin, Paris, New York, and Tokyo. His works have graced numerous individual and group exhibitions, and can be found in many private and public collections, notably Centre Pompidou.

Sławomir Rumiak (born in Bielsko-Biała in 1972) is a photographer, author of video installations, and draughtsman. A graduate of the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1999), Rumiak won recognition with his photographic cycles, including Prêt-à-Porter (2004), which consisted of a series of images of women, brimming with references to both the history of art and to the commodified and objectified image of a woman in mass culture. In 2007, as part of the Wyjazd (Journey) project, Rumiak cycled from Poland to Venice with a self-made miniature of the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, which he slept in at camp sites on his route.

The artist is perfectly recognisable in Japan, where he has cooperated with Tokyo’s Il Tempo Gallery and Zeit Foto Salon, has published works in Japanese photographic magazines, and lectured at Japanese universities. He has also curated two exhibitions of Japanese art in Poland: Simon Yotsuya and Friends, or Bellmer in Japan (2010, Centre of Contemporary Art Kronika in Bytom, Silesian Museum in Katowice) and Atokata (2012, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice).