Dimensions: 150 x 150 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'JERZY TRUSZKOWSKI | "X2" | 2003'
Biography
Painter, performer. Since 1976 he has been practicing performance and realizing artistic actions, collaborating with Jacek Rydecki and Zbigniew Libera, among others. In 1980-84, in the cycles "Nihilism of the Intellect" and "Nihilistic Orgiastic Alliance", he combined drawings, photographs, painting, texts and films referring to philosophy, history and medicine. In 1984-94, during performances, he cut ambiguous symbols into his skin, which also appear in the series of paintings "Somnabulic Symbolic System" and "Pictosophy." In 1986-94, he continued political and symbolic themes in his installations. Since 2000, he has been creating paintings in the "Unus Dolor" series using banknote motifs.