Edward Dwurnik, Calm, 1970

pencil, ink, paper, 35 x 50 cm signed p.g.: E. Dwurnik 70; stamp: RYSUNEK E. DWURNIK/3268.

exhibited: Edward Dwurnik. Madness!, National Museum in Krakow 23.03. - 9.07.2013
reproduced: Edward Dwurnik. Madness!, National Museum in Krakow, p. 35.

Edward Dwurnik (1943, Radzymin - 2018, Warsaw) From 1963 to 1970, he studied painting and printmaking with Prof. Krystyna Łada-Studnicka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He earned his diploma in the studio of Prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch. He was greatly influenced by the Nikifor Krynicki exhibition presented in 1965. Years later he stated: "Nikifor was my most important master, actually the only one. (...) To this day, whenever I go outdoors or paint with watercolors, I have that exhibition before my eyes." From almost the very beginning Dwurnik introduces social and political themes into his art. Through his paintings he comments on the reality around him. His series including Sportsmen, Workers, Warsaw, Road to the East, From December to June lead us through the world of Polish reality in the 1970s to the social and economic changes of the 1980s and 1990s. He has been awarded, among others: "Solidarity" Cultural Award (1983), Nouvelle Biennale de Paris (1985), Seoul Art Olympiad Award (1988) and Contemporary Art Foundation Award (1992). He lived and worked in Warsaw. Edward Dwurnik's works were seen in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

In his paintings on Polish themes, Dwurnik exposes with merciless simplicity our semi-rural, semi-urban folklore, shows the everyday social microdrama with its typical grotesque issues - Ewa Kuryluk.