Pawel Kowalewski, Zdzichu jumps every night with bottles of gasoline, 2008

serigraphy, bold pastel, 100 x 70 cm, ed.16/20

The work is part of a series of serigraphs created from a selection of the artist's old, most popular paintings. Each serigraph has been further transformed by Kowalewski by applying a drawing in bold pastel. Thus, all the works, although they come from a series, have an individual dimension and two layers - the work from the past and the new drawing. This serigraph is based on a painting of the same title painted in 1982, that is, during the martial law in Poland. The original painting was a commentary on the political situation at the time and a reference to the book "Little Apocalypse" by Tadeusz Konwicki.

BIOGRAM:
Pawel Kowalewski (b. 1958, Warsaw): From 1978 to 1983 he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he graduated with honors in the studio of Stefan Gierowski. In 1982, together with Ryszard Grzyb, Jaroslaw Modzelewski, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Marek Sobczyk and Ryszard Wozniak, he founded the Gruppa art formation, one of the key formations of Polish art of the 1980s. Kowalewski's work is diverse in genre - it includes painting on canvas and paper, photography, sculpture (small forms), installations and ready mades. Characteristic of his style are the conceptual-Dadaist comments and titles with which the artist labels his works. In his work each work has a deep meaning, a commentary on reality, a reference to a literary text, personal life or to the pages of history. His works are in many prestigious collections, including: The National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Jerke Museum, the Museum of Art in Lodz, the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, as well as the ING Polish Art Foundation, the Starak Family Foundation, in private collections including Cartier, Isa Brachot.