Jerzy Truszkowski (b. 1961, Warsaw), "Portrait of an actress" ("Portrait of an actress"), 2003

Condition
framed

Biography
Painter, performer. Since 1976 he has been practicing performance and realizing artistic actions, collaborating with, among others, Jacek Rydecki and Zbigniew Libera. In 1980-84, in the cycles "Nihilism of the Intellect" and "Nihilistic Orgiastic Alliance", he combined drawings, photographs, painting, texts and films referring to philosophy, history and medicine. In 1984-94, during performances, he cut ambiguous symbols into his skin, which also appear in the series of paintings "Somnabulic Symbolic System" and "Pictosophy." In 1986-94, he continued political and symbolic themes in his installations. Since 2000, he has been creating paintings in the "Unus Dolor" series using banknote motifs.