Edward DWURNIK (1943 - 2018), 157 / 2358, from the series: Blue, 1997

Signed, dated and inscribed on back, on canvas: XX [in recto].
- 157 [in recto] / 2358 [in recto], beside: 1997 /
E.DWURNIK, on painter's loom: 150 x 200, above on
painting loom crossed out information with date [in marker].
and the stamp of the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk.

The first show of canvases from the "Blue" series took place in 1993.
At that time, at the Zderzak gallery in Cracow, Edward Dwurnik showed
a few of his 94 ready-made compositions maintained in similar tones,
with horizons raised to the border of the painting, giving the impression of
of abstract painting. He also claimed that the paintings were intended
are intended to be viewed from above. The inspiration for the series of works,
for the artist was a story that Teresa Gierzynska mentioned to him,
and told about an exhibition of marine painting seen
in the United States. The second impulse for Edward Dwurnik to create
large-format canvases often in shades of Prussian blue,
where the surface of the canvas was systematically cleaned
from layers of paint, were seaside travels. In this series, the painter did not
aimed to achieve a purely abstract form, on the contrary.
his goal was to create a work with the right
proportions between realistic and abstract representation.
Only in 2000, in the canvases of the series "Twenty-fifth"
one can see a clear turn towards non-figurative art and action painting
painting.