116x89 cm, acrylic canvas 2012
Leszek Drygalski
(born 1956 in Poznan)
"I was born to paint. I could have lived in a palace, but it would have been a golden cage (and nothing from painting). I could have married richly, but I chose a companion of fate - also a painter (and an uncommon mind).
I seemingly come from Poznan, but I have lived in Warsaw for 54 years. I live with my mother, but I have been incredibly lucky - I have been painting all my life (and often the very fact, the very possibility of creative work counts).
After graduating from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (painting department, diploma in 1981, in the studio of J. Siennicki), I went to Paris. In 1983 I returned from exile and since then I have had many solo and group exhibitions. Among them: TEST (2 times), Kordegarda, Poznan Municipal Gallery - Arsenal, as well as Czech Prague, Amsterdam, Rambouillet p. Paris.
In my life I made drawings for newspapers, wrote articles about art, taught painting and drawing privately, wrote (printed several times) short dramas, drew comic strips, worked for a wallpaper maker, taught at the University of Warsaw. I consider my painting, whether he wants it or not, to be postmodern (in the sense of what the word expresses).
In 2012, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage awarded me a prize for creativity."
