Wojciech GRABOWSKI (b. 1969), Shapes of Childhood, 2023

Portfolio of 10 incographs, each signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the author,
edition of 15 pieces (this 1/15), stained Favini cardboard 30 x 21 cm, complete with author's introduction, list of works, biographical note.


Portfolio includes: Uncle Stanislaw with a Goat, Metaphysics of Small Towns and Star 25,Taxi under the Chestnut, DM 350 Trolley, Faucet in the Corridor, Motor Wagon, Ursus, Railroads and Hats, Soup, This I Told You.
From the author's introduction: "These drawings represent what I remember from the period when I was 5 - 12 years old. (...) There are some distortions, shifts and imbalances of proportions in these works. This is characteristic of a child's vision. (....)During childhood, an object, a person, a car, a house - these are not simply shapes of one kind or another, passed by indifferently. It's a sensing of shapes so profound as to be hyper-real."

Wojciech Grabowski - a graduate of the Institute of Art at the Pedagogical University in Cracow and the Screenwriting Study at the Film School in Lodz. Draughtsman, writer, author of films about art made for TVP Kultura (including "Expressionism in Poland", "Journey with Rafal Malczewski", "Artes - the surrealists from Lviv"). He made his debut in 2012 with a collection of short stories "Motorcycle Man." He subsequently published: "Archi-traf. Tales of Silesian and Zagłębie architecture", "Miastowidz. Tales from the Silesian Metropolis," "The Design of Those Times. "Here. Art and Space of Upper Silesia." In 2019 he created a series of illustrations for old Polish fantasy novellas, which were published in the anthology "Hair Screaming on the Head".Since 2020 he has been publishing bibliophile books in numbered editions. So far they have been published: "O Grzesiu kłamczuchu i jego cioci" by Julian Tuwim, "Sen" by Antoni Lange, "Pani Twardowska" by Adam Mickiewicz. In 2022, a critical study of Aleksander Watt's poem "I from one side and I from the other side of my mopsozelazny piecyk" with his drawings was published by the University of Lodz Publishing House.