Acrylic, graphite, board; 100 x 150 cm
Signature p. d.: B. Salwiński / 2000
Estimate: 8000 - 12000
Provenance:
- Private collection Cracow
- purchase from the artist
Bogusz Salwiński outstanding artist - sculptor, draughtsman and painter. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma with honors in 1973 at the Department of Sculpture in the studio of Professor Marian Konieczny. From 1990 to 1996, he served as vice-dean and from 2002 to 2008 as dean of his alma mater's Faculty of Sculpture. He is the author of martyrological sculpture and painting series: Victims of Violence, Ecce Homo, Human - Artificial. Author of more than three hundred portrait realizations in sculpture, drawing and painting. Numerously decorated and awarded among others: "Sculpture of the Year" Cracow (1974, '78, '80, '81, '86, '89, '90), Grand Prix and gold medal at the National Sculpture Review in Warsaw, or in the national competition for the Warsaw Uprising monument in Warsaw. His works can be found in museum collections including the Museum of the City of Cracow, the Museum of the Tradition of Independence Struggles in Lodz, the Museum of Martyrdom in the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin and many private collections in Poland and abroad. He was buried in the Alley of the Distinguished at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Cracow.
He has always dealt with drawing considered it the closest after sculpture, and is the author of erotic series devoted to the metaphysics of the female body. The presented work is a combination of beauty and destruction, uplifting love and downfall, life and death. Here the female body becomes simultaneously sacred and profane enclosed in the space of the work.
