On Paper

Jarosław Kozłowski’s works from the Free Drawings II series were created as part of a project carried out in 1983 at Galeria Piwna 20/26, where the artist pasted large drawings on packing paper over the walls. Tomasz Ciecierski’s works from 1990, not previously shown, are sketches in which drawing actions are combined with fragments of canvasses cut out from existing paintings. Ryszard Waśko’s work, shown here for the first time, comes from a series created in the 1980s using such unconventional media as soot and tar. Teresa Tyszkiewicz’s pin-studded drawing from 1986 is part of a series that has not been shown before, in which the artist used different techniques to expressively develop various variants of the “mug” [the colloquial term for face] motif. Ewa Harabasz’s sketches are an unknown part of her project Red and Violet, in which the artist drew the “colours of suffering” on paper. Works by Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went from the Sixty Thousand Unborrowed Books series are prints on paper, in which the digits of the call numbers form images of the library interior. Zbigniew Libera’s drawing from 2010 was created as part of the Flat Reality project in which the author made works on paper, objects and photographs to depict methods of visual deception by means of media images of consumer culture.