Grzegorz SKAWIŃSKI (b.1958), Dismissal from the series: Olive Trees; 2017

author's technique: oil, acrylic, pastel, paper, wax, canvas; 100 x 150 cm
sign. dat. p. d. Skawiński Grzegorz Krakow 2017

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Painting in 1995, with a diploma from Prof. Jerzy Nowosielski's studio. He works as a visual artist, stage designer and costume designer. He has had many group and solo exhibitions. He is the author of costumes and stage designs realized for drama and dance theaters in Poland. He has prepared set designs for dozens of Television Theater productions. His works are in the collections of collectors in Poland and abroad. He is a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers and the Polish Filmmakers Association. He has worked on film projects realized in Poland, the USA, South America and Africa. Among others, he collaborated on the production of "Manhunt" by Marcin Krzyształowicz and "Katyn" by Andrzej Wajda.
The work "Oddalenie" is an interpretation of the feelings accompanying the moments of separation, the title remoteness. The artist, as in the entire series "Olive Trees" personifies the branches of olive trees, giving them human characteristics and aptly showing through them the feelings accompanying human relationships. Significant here is the use of the very tree - a symbol of constancy - to show the changeability of feelings, human confusion and entanglement in them. In this way, the artist seems to emphasize the constancy of this changeability while creating beautiful monochromatic images.