WELCOME TO THE MARIUSZ KOZIK PAINTING GALLERY
“A long chain of human lives, bound by a vision clear,
That Poland, yes, that Poland, may forever persevere!”
Jan Pietrzak
Linked with Mr. Mariusz Kozik, by a vision clear, That Poland, yes, that Poland, may forever persevere, Pergamena Publishing House, as the official partner, publisher, and distributor of reproductions of the artist’s works, has opened an online store – the Mariusz Kozik Gallery.
We offer museum-grade artistic canvas prints. We produce them using the highest standards of digital printing, resistant to UV exposure. We additionally protect each canvas print by coating it with a varnish.
The list of paintings offered is not yet complete; we will soon expand it to include other works by the artist.
Mariusz Kozik, a.k.a. Lacedemon (born 1973 in Lublin) is a Polish epic artist, painter, sculptor and illustrator of history. A creator of exceptional talent and sensitivity, known worldwide to millions of strategy game fans.
He began his artistic career in 1989, attending the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art School Complex in Lublin. The next step in honing Mariusz Kozik’s talent was his studies at the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. He graduated from the Academy in the studio of Professor Józef Hałas, under his supervision, in 2000.
In 2001, he was honored with the Eugeniusz Geppert Foundation Award at the 5th Eugeniusz Geppert Competition and the 4th National Exhibition of Young Painting. At the same competition, he also received the Award of the President of the ZPAP District Board in Wrocław.
Until 2012, the author participated in dozens of group exhibitions and presented his work in a number of solo exhibitions. A permanent exhibition of his works can be seen at Golub-Dobrzyń Castle.
In 2008, Kozik began creating covers and marketing illustrations for well-known games: Commander – Napoleon at War, Commander – The Great War, Total War: Rome II, Total War: Attila, Total War: Warhammer, Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World, Stronghold: Warlords, Stronghold: Definitive Edition, Age of Empire: Mobile, Mount & Blade: Bannerlord – War Sails, etc. Currently, Kozik collaborates with Raw Power Games, creating illustrations and marketing images for the game Chronicles: Medieval. Since 2009, Mariusz Kozik has been collaborating with numerous publishing houses, including Osprey Publishing (Raid series), Ender Publishing (WarBook series), Fabryka Słów, Rebis, Napoleon V Publishing, Desperta Ferro History, Muy Historia Magazine, Guerres et histoire, èStoria, Mondadori Scienza, and more.
An artist of Mariusz Kozik’s stature and fame, an artist so valued by all who cherish the name “Polak” and the word “Fatherland,” does not require a review on our store’s website. Nevertheless, out of an inner need, we would like to share with you our reflection on a fragment of the artist’s work devoted to the hussars, the legend of the Polish army.
Through his talent and creative commitment, the painter allows us to relive distant moments, shrouded in history, of the beautiful Polish tradition and knightly glory. Looking at the artist’s paintings depicting the charges of the Polish hussars, one has the overwhelming impression that their creator witnessed those events and, like a war correspondent, captured the battle scenes with his camera. Thanks to him, we see the terror of the hussar attack and what would follow. No one before him had created such images, and therefore no one before us, apart from those who participated in those battles, had witnessed such scenes, this frozen dynamic, this tension, and this fighting spirit. Our heroic hussars waited four centuries for this artistic resurrection, and through these brilliant images, we become co-participants in their glory.
