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Exhibition: Edward Dwurnik in Lublin

Exhibition: Edward Dwurnik in Lublin
Start date 2014-03-28
Start time 00:00
Ending date 2014-04-30

Edward Dwurnik konsekwentnie od ponad 45 lat komentuje, opisuje i rejestruje polską rzeczywistość, tę PRL-owską, z czasu transformacji ustrojowej i tę obecną. Jego twórczość jest malarską i rysunkową kroniką historii życia, obyczajów, frustracji, traum, skłonności, obsesji Polek i Polaków. Artysta maluje w charakterystyczny i rozpoznawalny sposób. Jego obrazy mają charakter pospiesznego szkicu malarskiego lub rysunkowego. Przy dokładnym oglądzie, zwłaszcza tych monumentalnych prac, widzimy mnóstwo szczegółów, detali które definiują kontekst czasu, realia społeczne i polityczne. (...)

Edward Dwurnik stworzył obrazy usystematyzowane w cyklach malarskich takich jak: Droga, Gipsowy plener, Różne błękity, Chmury, For over forty-five years, Edward Dwurnik has consistently commented on, described and depicted the situation of Poland as it was in the times of transformation – when Poland was regarded as a satellite state of the Soviet Union – and as it is today. His artistic oeuvre is considered to be a pictorial chronicle of stories and events, lives, customs, frustrations, traumas, predilections and obsessions of Polish men and women. Dwurnik has developed his own unique and characteristic style of painting, the distinctive manner that makes him recognizable. At first glance, his works – both drawings and paintings – seem hasty and rushed, as if they were only sketches – preliminary studies. However, after thorough examination, especially of his monumental works, we can see how detailed they are and that those details define the time as well as social and political realities. (...)

Edward Dwurnik is the author of the systematized series of paintings, including: Road, Plaster Open-Air, Various Blues, Clouds, Moment, Paris, Hitchhiking, Sportsmen, Cross, Warsaw, Passion, Diploma, Portrait, Workers, Sławoszyno, Newspaper, Eastbound, December to June, Long Live the War!, Blue, Romantic, Large Paintings, Counting, Twenty-Third, Open-Air, Twenty-Fifth, Improving Mozart. He continues to expand some of them to this day.

Dwurnik is a very prolific artist and the number of artworks he created is impressive. Each of the said series is comprised of a few dozen to over a thousand paintings (as in the case of Hitchhiking series), and they have been presented in hundreds of galleries and museums all over the world.
Edward Dwurnik’s first exhibition at the Biała Gallery was held in 2003, as a part of the series Attention! Painting! At the time, the artist presented his gestural abstractions. Five years later, he showed his “portraits” of towns and cities, which were juxtaposed with works by a famous self-taught painter, Nikifor Krynicki. In 2010, Dwurnik returned to Biała with the paintings from his Sportsmen series. Furthermore, apart from solo exhibitions, the artist participated in the project Art in Public Spaces which resulted in him designing two banners that were suspended over the entrance to the Cultural Centre in Lublin in 2008 and 2009.

(...) The artist’s most recent exhibition at Biała (2014) is titled E. Dwurnik in Lublin, where the title E. Dwurnik was taken from the artist’s stamp, which he uses to sign his works, while in Lublin is just our local adjustment.

(...) When we organized Dwurnik’s exhibitions in the past, our goal was always to present his unique art in a different way – to showcase its versatility. It is no different this time. What is new about Dwurnik’s current exhibition, is the fact that we decided to present his early drawings and collages from 1960s and 70s, never exhibited before.  (…)

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