Title: Eagle Fly and Crumble Our Chains Donbas/no.1323
from the cycle "The Way to the East"
Date: 1989
Media: oil
Dimensions: 58 x 46 inches
Price: contact the gallery for price
Fassbender Gallery 312.666.4302 |
Fassbender Gallery is pleased to exhibit the paintings of renown Polish artist Edward Dwurnik. Dwurnik's painting lies at the heart of Polish National identity and tragedy.
This exhibition of canvases from the December to June and The Way to the East series' commemorate the murder and imprisonment of Poland's heroes during Communist and Martial Law rule. But these paintings of faceless figures and somber
images do not accuse or condemn. Dwurnik employs the political symbols of Poland- the sickles, hammers and broken statues- in a subtle way- instead of making overt political statements, he allows the viewer to extrapolate the universal from the everyday. As
Benjamin Rhodes of Benjamin Rhodes Gallery asserts, Dwurnik's work forces us to remember that, for many, art remains a powerful, anarchic mouthpiece; a cry of the heart, when all else is silenced.
Born in Radzymin, Poland in 1943, Dwurnik studied, and is now a professor, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has exhibited widely throughout the world including;
Documenta 7, in Kassel, Germany,
The Fifth Biennale, in Sydney, Australia,
The Museum For Contemporary Art, in Vienna, Austria,
The Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin, Germany and
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Basil, Switzerland.
Most recently he was honored with a one-person retrospective at the Wurttembergisher Kuunstverein of Sttutgart, Germany.
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