JACEK FEDOROWICZ. Self-portrait; at bottom, curriculum vitae and signed in pencil; 1980s; serigraphy black-and-white, fine condition; dimensions 227x322 mm; AUTOPORTRETOCARCATURE WITH LIFE.
Jacek Fedorowicz (born July 18, 1937), Polish satirist, actor, television presenter, painter, cartoonist and columnist. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He was one of the founders (with Z. Cybulski and B. Kobiel, among others) of the student theater Bim-Bom. While still a student, he cooperated with the Gdansk radio station as an author and actor, while as an author and cartoonist with the local and national press (including Dookoła świata, Po prostu, Dziennik Bałtycki, Szpilki). In the second half of the 1960s, he appeared on Polish Television, where he co-created entertainment programs with J. Gruza, among others. In the 1970s, he co-authored the radio satirical magazine 60 Minutes per Hour, and also hosted morning talk shows. He often appeared on stage, first in the Wagabunda Cabaret, then in the program Let's support each other, and later in individual author's evenings.
In 1980, he joined "Solidarity" and worked with Radio "S" of the union's Mazovia Region. At the beginning of martial law, he broke off all contacts with the state media. Together with his wife Anna, he became involved in the activities of the Primate's Committee for Aid to Persons Deprived of Liberty and Their Families. He performed mainly on church grounds, there he also held exhibitions of his caricatures and opposition-supporting drawings, and appeared with lectures as part of the Weeks of Christian Culture. One of his ideas from those days was to ridicule the regime's TV news. In 1989, he co-authored pre-election broadcasts of the Civic Committee, in which, among other things, he discussed the rules of voting.
