Zbigniew Maciej DOWGIAŁŁO (b. 1961), Virgins of Avignon, 1981

oil, canvas; 195 x 235 cm;
Signature p. d.: DOWGIAŁŁO;
Signed and dated on back: 1981 Dowgiałło.

Total artist. Graduate of the Painting Department of the Warsaw Academy of
Fine Arts in the studio of Stefan Gierowski. Director of films using
3D animation. Producer of films and multimedia programs
and games. He is also involved in graphics and stage design, is a screenwriter, designs
futuristic architecture, explores the secrets of computer technology
HD and 3D. The aesthetics of his paintings are linked to the new expression of the
1980s, when artists were creating large-format paintings with panache,
colorful, expressive and "wild" in expression compositions. Hence another
term "new wild". In addition to members of the well-known art group Gruppa,
artists using the expressive language of artistic expression
were also Wojciech Tracewski, Szymon Urbański or Jerzy Truszkowski.
This is the irrepressible Warsaw art community of the 1980s,
to which Zbigniew M. Dowgiałło also belongs, was centered around
two centers - the Dziekanka Gallery and the space of the former Norblin factory
Norblin factories, where, thanks to Andrzej Bonarski, cyclical collective exhibitions were organized
"What's up" group exhibitions, a summary of which was compiled by
Maryla Sitkowska.