Dimensions: 80 x 120 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Zbylut77'.
inside the composition dedication: 'JACKOWI | KACZMARSKI | FOR PIOSENKI - Zbylut | Krakow | MAJ 1978'.
Exhibited
15th Wprost exhibition, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, March-April 1978.
VII Festival of Fine Arts "Warsaw '78", Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, September 1978
III Triennial of Painting and Graphics "Our Time - Metaphor - Tendencies", BWA, Lodz, June-July 1979
"Open Studio," a multi-month permanent show at Zbylut Grzywacz's studio at 17/22A Białoprądnicka Street in Cracow, 1982-1983
"Exhibition of paintings by Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings from 1957-2000, "Zbylut Gallery", Cracow, June 2000-July 2005.
Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and drawings 1958-2001, Wirydarz Art Gallery, Lublin, April-May 2001.
Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, first posthumous retrospective, National Museum in Cracow, March-June 2009
Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz, Art Propaganda Center, June-August 2009
Zbylut Grzywacz Scenes. Paintings and drawings, Plock Art Gallery, September-October 2014
Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, Cultural Center in Słomniki, November-December 2014
Zbylut Grzywacz painting, Municipal Art Gallery MM in Chorzow, June 2015
Literature
15th WPROST exhibition, exhibition catalog, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art in Opole, Opole 1978
VII Festival of Fine Arts "Warsaw '78", exhibition catalog at Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 1978
III Triennial of Painting and Graphics "Our Time - Metaphor - Tendencies", exhibition catalog at BWA in Lodz, Lodz 1979
Zbylut Grzywacz. Painting, exhibition catalog at BWA in Kielce, Kielce 1991, il. 30
Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and Drawings 1958-2001, exhibition folder at Wirydarz Art Gallery, Lublin, 2001
Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, exhibition catalog, [eds.] Joanna Boniecka, Jacek Waltoś, MNK, Kraków 2008, cat. no. 247, pp. 158 (ill.), 347 et al.
Tadeusz Nyczek, Rozdwojony, [in:] Zbylut Grzywacz. 1939-2004, ed. schol. Joanna Boniecka and Jacek Waltoś, catalog of the exhibition at the National Museum in Cracow, March-June 2009, MNK, Cracow 2008, pp. 288-289
Joanna Boniecka, Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004. exhibition guide, MNK, Kraków 2009, p. 12.
Stanisław Primus, Beauty rescued by truth... critical kitsch, [in:] "The Artist towards Himself and Society" - the work of Zbylut Grzywacz and its contexts. Materials from the scientific conference at the National Museum in Krakow May 7-8, 2009, [ed.] Joanna Boniecka, Krakow 2010, pp. 59-67 (ill.)
Wojciech Bałus, Zbylut Grzywacz's "Help". On metaphor and metonymy in "marny time", [in:] "The Artist towards Himself and Society". The oeuvre of Zbylut Grzywacz and its contexts, [ed.] J. Boniecka, materials from a scientific conference at the National Museum in Krakow May 7-8, 2009, MNK, Krakow 2010, pp. 208-209
Scenes by Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Joanna Boniecka, Plock Art Gallery, Plock 2014, p. 37 (il.)
Zbylut Grzywacz - painting, exhibition folder at the MM Municipal Art Gallery in Chorzow, Chorzow 2015
Agata Stronciwilk, Community, body, politics. Aesthetic and cultural contexts of food in Polish contemporary art, doctoral dissertation written under the supervision of Dr. Maria Popczyk, Prof. UŚ, Katowice 2018, pp. 145-159
Patrycja Cembrzyńska, Zbylut Grzywacz - Scenes from the Corrida, socialism with a beefy face, [in:] "Poland 1944/45-1989. Studies and Materials," Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ed. 2022
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1963 in the studio of E. Krcha. Since 1972 he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1991 became its professor. As a painter, draughtsman, sculptor, graphic artist, writer, photographer, essayist and educator, he was active in many artistic fields. He was also a lover and expert in paleontology, collecting stones and popularizing science and art. Together with his wife Maria, he created and ran the ESTE Gallery of Curiosities and the ESTE School of Drawing and Painting in Cracow. In 1966, he founded together with M. Bieniasz, J. Waltos and L. Sobocki of the "Wprost" group. His early work was influenced by F. Bacon with his characteristic deformations and exaggerations. Later he used more realistic means of expression. During the communist era, he was interned as a democratic oppositionist during martial law. In the early 1980s, he created the series "Wisnica Retreat" and "Spring 1982," in which he referred to martial law, depicting still lifes with pieces of bread and chains. Later, he returned to the theme of the female nude, painting bodies stigmatized with scars and scarring. Since 1989, he painted nudes, but already in the convention of affirmation of life and beauty.
He had about 70 solo exhibitions, more than 20 held as part of the Wprost group (1966-1986 and 2016) and about 200 national and international group exhibitions. The artist's works can be found in the collections of most Polish museums, as well as Polish and foreign private collections. In 2009, a posthumous retrospective of the artist was held at the National Museum in Krakow. The exhibition was accompanied by an extensive catalog entitled "Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, edited by J. Boniecka and J. Waltos, which is the result of five years of research devoted to the legacy and reception of the artist.
