Dimensions: 275 x 175 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: '"SPANISH SCHOOL | DRIVING" | PAWEŁ KOWALEWSKI'86'
Exhibited
The impassive young man sings, the stiff whirling deer (IV painting action in Dziekanka), Pracownia Dziekanka, Warsaw, 11-14.11.1986
Literature
Gruppa 1982-1992, exhibition catalog, Zachęta Gallery, ed. Maryla Sitkowska, Warsaw 1992, p. 75 (mentioned)
Gruppa, edited by Agnieszka Szewczyk, Recklinghausen 2023, pp. 201, 516 (ill.)
Biography
Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his diploma with honors in S. Gierowski's painting studio in 1983. From that year he became the youngest member of "Gruppa". Until 1989 he painted figurative paintings, often with historical and patriotic references. In the early 1990s, a series of collages were created, in which the artist focused on the aesthetics of everyday life, with notable titles: "Exercises in the aesthetics in which I grew up", "Landmarks that are necessary to avoid madness". In the 2000s, political themes continued to be part of Kovalevsky's artistic activity, as evidenced by cycles that were part of the anti-totalitarian discourse: "Not allowed!" (2010) and "Totalitarianism Simulator" (2012). Since 1985, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he received the rank of professor in 2019.
