Description
From the series: Hitchhiking trips
Oil, canvas; 73 x 54 cm
Signed p.d.: 1980 / E. Dwurnik; l.d.: Bystrzyca
On the reverse: 1980 / E. Dwurnik / IX 179 - 667; incompletely preserved pen-filled paper sticker: 1980 April / [Travels] hitchhiking / 667; stamp: [DW]URNIK; in marker: 323
Asking price 65000
Estimate 82000 - 90000
◙ droit de suite
Auction 202, 15.05.2021
Edward DWURNIK
1943 Radzymin - 2018 Warsaw
Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1963-70. During his studies, starting in 1965, he began the series Hitchhiking Journeys (continued to this day), in which he portrayed cities and towns from the perspective of a "bird's flight", in the field of the artist's interest, in addition to architecture, was the life and customs of the inhabitants. In 1972-78, the series Sportsmen is created, in which he depicts marginal people, sly people, smokers of the cheapest "Sport" brand cigarettes at the time. Around 1980 there was a merger of the series Sportsmen and Workers /implemented since about 1975/. The mockery and criticism of those leading a "sporting" life of their fellow countrymen /it was also a reaction to the pushy, instrumental glorification of the hegemon - i.e. the working class, by the propaganda of the time/ was abandoned in favor of a sense of solidarity with the people portrayed. Paintings from the series Warsaw (1981), prophetically anticipated the introduction of martial law in Poland. In the series Road to the East (1989 - 1991), he commemorated the victims of Stalinist communism, and in the series From December to June (1990 - 1994), he paid tribute to the victims of martial law in Poland. In the series Long Live War! created under the impression of wars in the Caucasus and the Balkans, the artist sends a message - a warning. The last cycles of the artist are: Enumeration, Diagonals, Flowers, a return to Hitchhiking and the series Blekitne. The author of more than 3,000 paintings accompanying our life for several decades, which are a peculiar, unique , artistically captured chronicle of life, custom, material and spiritual record of our culture.
