Stasys Eidrigevicius,

Drawing, technique - pencil illustration design, dimensions 10x16cm.

Stasys Eidrigevičius was born on July 24, 1949 in the village of Mediniškiai in northern Lithuania. In 1964-68 he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Kaunas, where he studied at the Faculty of Artistic Design of Leather Products. He began his artistic studies at the Faculty of Painting and Printmaking in 1968 at the Institute of Fine Arts in Vilnius. In 1976, he married Lucyna (Lucia) Sinkiewicz. He became the father of three children, Barbara (1976), Justyna (1977) and Ignacy (1982). In 1975 and 1978 he tried unsuccessfully to legalize his stay in Poland and only in 1980 was he granted a permanent residence permit. Since 1980, he has lived in Warsaw. In 1988 he renounced his citizenship of the USSR.

Stasys Eidrigevičius began with exlibrises, small graphic and painting forms. In 1993, Eidrigevicius made his stage debut at the Studio Theater in Warsaw with the piece "White Deer," which he directed himself, acted in it, made the sets, costumes and masks. Symbolic images of being play an important role in the evocative vision of his world. The artist mainly uses drawing, and his technique is surprisingly simple: charcoal, crayons, pastels, sometimes gouache. He is also a creator of book illustrations, happenings and installations. Stasys' works are in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin, the Poster Museum in Wilanow, the British Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Library in Washington, Creation Gallery in Tokyo, the Vatican Museum in Rome and private collections around the world.