Edward Dwurnik
He is esteemed by artists and critics as well as by collectors. His works are held, among others, by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Ludwig Cologne, the Albertina Museum Dresden and the Kunsthalle Kiel. They are rooted in the reality of Poland; the gaze is critical, almost satirical. With expression he illustrates everyday life – the “Polish mug” – and he also paints abstractions and, most recently, nudes of pregnant women. For 40 years the main current of Dwurnik’s art has been the cycle “Hitchhiking” – views of cities and towns from a bird’s-eye view. Painted in a characteristic manner, they recall the naive pictures of Nikifor.
These early small-format pictures are a true “portrait of the artist as a young man”, when, as an academy student with not a penny in his pocket, he travelled through Poland and drew landscapes in pencil – as if in a trance, one after another. The paintings by E.D. shown at RED CORRIDOR Gallery come from his cycles “The Way to the East” 1989/90, “Long Live War” 1990/92 and “Blue Seascapes” 1992/93.