Zbigniew Olszewski, Persistence, 2021

Oil, canvas, 65 x 50 cm, signed on the back

Zbigniew Olszewski was born in 1955 in Świdnik. Graphic artist, he practices printmaking, drawing, oil painting. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1975-80, graduated with honors in 1980 in the field of graphics in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Rudzinski. Annex in painting in the studio of Prof. Eugeniusz Markowski. Member of the board of ZAPAP. Individual exhibitions: Lublin 1984, Gorzow Wielkopolski 1988, Kraśnik 1991, Jaroslaw 1991, Lublin 1997, Lublin 2005, Lublin 2015, Lublin 2016,Zwierzyniec 2018.Group exhibitions: Radom 1980, Lublin 1981, Lublin 1985, Lublin 1986, Lublin 1988,Kazimierz Dolny 1990, Lublin 1992, Lublin 1994, Lublin 1955, Hamburg 1955, Lublin 1997, Lublin 1999, Lublin 2001, Lublin 2003, Kazimierz Dolny 2004, Lublin 2015, Międzyrzec Podlaski 2007, Lublin 2016, Lublin 2018, Zalesie Dolne- Artistic Colony-2018, Lublin 2019, Vilnius 2019.Awards: Graphic of the year - Lublin 1981, Lublin 1985, Lublin 1988.Zbigniew Olszewski's paintings are in many private collections at home and abroad, they are also sold in Polish auction houses and national galleries ( Desa Unicum, Sopot Auction House, Next, Xanadu).There is one work in the collection of the Lublin Castle Museum. An excerpt from a review by Katarzyna Bartnik from the folder for the exhibition Zbigniew Olszewski " Hidden Reality" Gardzienice Gallery Lublin 2016. "This work becomes quite a challenge for art historians, it eludes schemes, all terms, pigeonholing. The richness of the artist's imagination is immeasurable just like the unique worlds he creates. The author invites you to plunge into their ineffable abysses of infinity, full of understatement, allusion, metaphor, sometimes joke, revealing in them also his fears and fascinations, such as the process of destruction, self-destruction, aging and decay, which is terrifying in its expression."