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Tales and Songs

“Tales and Songs” is a series of works inspired by stories, songs and my own private conversations and discussions. It explores historical themes and figures — often little known, but in my view significant or underestimated. The characters that appear here are chosen according to a purely subjective key of personal sympathy or antipathy. At times, the series also becomes an opportunity for a humorous dialogue with the old masters. Each work is created in my own technique, situated on the borderline between drawing and printmaking.

1. Underground (after Emir Kusturica)

2. The Alchemist John Dee Conjures the Term “British Empire” for Queen Elizabeth I

3, Catherine the Great Walks the French Philosophers of the Enlightenment (after Jacek Kaczmarski)

4. Prince Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki’s Meditations on the Vodka Monopoly in the Capital City of Warsaw

5. Henry of Lancaster, Later by the Grace of God King of England and France, Lord of Ireland Henry IV, Besieging Vilnius with His Allies

6. Joseph Conrad and Józef Retinger on Holiday in Kraków in the Summer of 1914

7. The Punishment of Barabbas (after Jacek Kaczmarski)

8. Guernica 1914, or the Destruction of Kalisz by the Germans (after Pablo Picasso)

9. Girl with Sigmund Freud