Henryk Cześnik (born 1951 Sopot), Always all fairy tales end badly, 1999

mixed technique, paper, 70 x 100 cm, signed p.d.: 'H. Cześnik 99'



A graduate of the Gdansk State Higher School of Fine Arts, he received his diploma in painting and graphic arts in 1977 in the studio of Kazimierz Ostrowski. He is a professor at his alma mater. In the early period of his work, he took up sacred themes. A frequent theme is the deformed human silhouette. His paintings from the 1980s, instead of titles, had numbers similar to those given in prisons or camps. All the images of people in the artist's paintings have eyes embedded in them, cut from illustrated magazines.