Collection

Rafał Dominik is a fan and connoisseur of disco polo music, and was even part of the disco polo ensemble Galactics for a time. Guys from the Early Top One portrays members of a group popular at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, the ensemble’s membership changing a number of times. In all likelihood, the drawing shows Paweł Kucharski, Top One vocalist for many years, and Ghanaian Daniel Osafo Oware, a dancer from Top One’s most famous piece, Ole Olek!, composed on commission by Aleksander Kwaśniewski’s presidential campaign in 1995. The men’s faces are simplified and devoid of individual characteristics to an extent allowing the protagonists to be identified only by the work’s title. The suggestive arrangement of the bodies makes the scene emotional yet intimate.

Painter, draughtsman, creator of animations, sculptures, and 3D digital objects. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting in Prof. Leon Tarasewicz’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is the founder and vocalist of the disco polo group Galactics, and a member of the now-defunct Czosnek (Garlic) project collective. He was co-curator of the Art in Our Age exhibition organised by the ING Polish Art Foundation. Inspired by contemporary visual and material culture, such as sports shoes and electronic appliances recognised as status and lifestyle symbols, his style evokes the aesthetic of a comic book or computer game. The protagonists of his works are frequently humorous but never ironic. He lives and works in Warsaw.