Bogusz SALWIŃSKI (b. 1948), Fallen Angels; 2022

acrylic, graphite, own technique, paper; in st p-p 69 x 98 cm framed 90 x 120 cm
signed p. d: B. Salwiński

Active in the fields of sculpture, drawing and painting, professor at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Obtained his diploma with honors in 1973 at the Department of Sculpture in the studio of Prof. Marian Konieczny. From 1990 to 1996, he served as vice dean and from 2002 to 2008 as dean of the Faculty of Sculpture at his alma mater. 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 are 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 has always been involved in drawing, considering it the closest after sculpture, and is the author of erotic series devoted to the metaphysics of the female body. The presented work from the series "Fallen Angels" 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.