Exhibition poster
7.11.2011 - 22.11.2011
Galerie 022
ul. Mazowiecka 11a, Warsaw, Poland
Leszek Zebrowski (b. 1950) is a graduate of Szczecin Art College (Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych) and Gdansk Academy of Arts (Wyzsza Szkola Sztuk Plastycznych), Faculty of Graphic Design, under the guidance of prof. Krechowicz.
He is a versatile artist: painter as well as poster designer, theater set designer, book illustrator, and cartoonist. In addition, he is an active art shepherd who arranged numerous exhibitions and performances, e.g. musical-artistic action ''Przyspieszenie'' (Acceleration).
He is best recognized as an author of more than 360 posters. His works include posters for theaters, festivals and galleries of Szczecin and Cracow (Poland), Berlin and Luebeck (Germany).
He has received over 30 awards, including prestigious awards in poster biennales in Warsaw, Moscow, Mons, Tehran, Charkov, Tulza, and Rzeszow.
He is an associate professor at the Szczecin Academy of Arts.
He resides at Szczecin and Szelkow Nowy, Poland.
Besides computer-generated posters, Leszek Zebrowski uses traditional drawing techniques, mostly pastels on colored stock, in format identical to posters.
The artist creates portraits and masks that bring out the model's psyche. Posters- the reprints of the original drawings, lose some of the artistic value of the of the original works
Leszek Zebrowski considers himself to be the last Romantic of the Polish drawing. His masters are Artur Grottger, Stefan Zechowski, Witkacy, and the recently deceased Mieczyslaw Gorowski.
Web pages:
zebrowski-poster.com
zebrowski-drawing.com
zebrowski.dphoto.com
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