Stefan Slawinski (1948-2011), Searching for Touch, 2006

ink, thin pen on paper, 60 cm × 80 cm (sheet dimensions), 50 cm × 70 cm (composition dimensions);
signed at the bottom under the composition in pencil,
p.d.: artist's signature - SLAW / 2006,
l.d.: title - ''Searching for Touch''

Stefan Slawinski was born in 1948.
In 1979, he graduated from the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań at the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture in the studio of Prof. Waldemar Swierzy and Tadeusz Jackowski.

A sensitive draftsman and painter. Since 2003, he has been creating his art in Warsaw's Praga district, and it is here that his most mature and diverse works were created.

Drawing on fabric and hand-decorated clothes characterize the last period of his work. He had a number of solo exhibitions; he was actively involved in artistic actions taking place in Praga Północ - including "Brzeska street of artists", "Nocna Strefa Sztuki", "Art Picnic" on Ząbkowska Street.

He passed away on August 17, 2011.

Individual exhibitions:

1975 - MPiK Club Poznań
1976 - Klub ODNOWA Poznan
1978 - Klub MPiK Gorzow Wlkp.
1988 - Rome
1991 - Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych w Poznaniu
1992 - Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych w Koninie
1992 - Grand Theater in Warsaw
1992 - Regional Museum in Mielec
1995 - "Shalom" Gallery Warsaw
1996 - University of Warsaw
2003 - Art Novum Gallery - Warsaw
2006 - Gallery N'69 Warsaw
2007 - Gallery "Magiel" Warsaw

"The presented works are part of a larger whole, for the first time without literary suggestions drawings and paintings, to which the artist gave his own common title "Trace of Touch". Touch is understood here very broadly; there is the touch of time, the touch of memory, the touch of the gaze. Touch can be a memory, a word, a sound and even a shadow. Touch can also be the construction of space. For all these types of touch, the artist found a common element that, like a buckle, binds them together. It is the woman's body, which appears in each painting, in various configurations and arrangements." - Joanna Kiwilszo.