Edward Dwurnik (1943 - 2018), Castle Square, 2016

acrylic, canvas, 55 x 46 cm, signed p.d.: '2016 | E. DWURNIK' and described on the reverse: '2016 |E. DWURNIK|'CASTLE SQUARE'|NR: XI-728-6174'"

In 1963-70 he studied painting, printmaking and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His work was significantly influenced by an exhibition of Nikifor Krynicki, whose works he saw in 1965. At that time he inaugurated a series of works - watercolors, drawings and oil paintings entitled. "Hitchhiking Journeys." These were bird's-eye views of Polish cities, and in the 1990s also of European cities, including London and Paris. The artist continued this series until his death. In the 1970s, he worked on the series "Workers" and "Sportsmen," showing working people of the People's Republic of Poland in a distorting mirror. In subsequent years, new ones were created, including "On the Road to the East" in 1989-91, and "From December to June" in 1990-94, in which he commemorates the victims of Stalinism and the won state. Other series include, for example, "Portrait," "Long Live War," "Diagonal," and "Enumeration." He was the only artist from Poland to participate in the prestigious Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel. He won numerous awards, including the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award in 1981, the Committee for Independent Culture "Solidarity" in 1983, the Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation in 1992. In the last years of his life he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold Medal "Meritorious to Culture Gloria Artis".