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 The ‘Demons’ series comprises fifty drawings made between 2001 and 2006 by a renowned artist Grzegorz Moryciński. The pieces, displayed in 2006 at the National Library, were generously and kindly donated by the author to the Library, excellently complementing the works by the best Polish contemporary artists meticulously collected at the Iconographic Collections Division. Having perceived and appreciated the disseminating power of such medium as the Internet, the author made a decision to present the series in its entirety in the Polona Digital National Library.
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Grzegorz Moryciński was born on 7 November 1936 in Augustów, north-eastern Poland. A graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, he had been tutored by Prof. Stanisław Szczepański and Prof. Artur Nachta-Samborski. He traveled frequently to France, Italy, England, Sweden, the United States and Australia in search or inspiration and impressions; he studied old art collected in museums, at the same time closely watching the life that went on in the streets. Moryciński’s paintings, associated with the current of metaphoric art, is highly values not only because of the problems its raises, but also for their coloristic and formal values. His works have been displayed at numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad: London, Düsseldorf, Rome, Brussels, and Melbourne. He has been a winner of many prizes and awards for artistic achievements, including the award in the Jan Spychalski National Competition in 1973 and 1977; the award of the Solidarity Independent Culture Committee for lifetime accomplishments in 1988; the artistic scholarship of the American Pollock–Krasner Foundation in 1993; the special award of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2006. His works may be found in many museum collections: the National Museums in Warsaw, Kraków and Szczecin, the Contemporary Art Museum in Radom, the Archdiocesan Museum in Warsaw, as well as many private collections in Poland and abroad: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Spain, USA, Japan, Venezuela, and Canada.
With very modest artistic means, in his ‘Demon s’ series Grzegorz Moryciński grasped the effects that are catching with their power of expression, the sense of dread, making one shiver. Joining the tradition of the art of Boscha, Goya, Rops and Wojtkiewicz, the artist forces the viewer to reflect on what rests in the darkest and most secluded corners of human soul, and what is prevented to be let out to the light by the mind that is alert during daytime.
Number of publications in collection:50
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