Wojciech GRABOWSKI "GRABEK" (born 1969), Station Bar

drawing, collage, pencil; 29 x 21 cm (light passe-partout);
Signed p. g.: GRABEK.
The drawing is an original from the series "Remembered from the People's Republic of Poland" published by the author in the form of a portfolio of incographs in an edition of 15 pieces.
Wojciech Grabowski - a graduate of the Art Institute of the Pedagogical University in Cracow and the Screenwriting Study of the Film School in Lodz. Draughtsman, writer, author of films about art made for TVP Kultura (among others "Expressionism in Poland", "Journey with Rafal Malczewski", "Artes - 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 bibliophilic 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.