Dymitr Grozdew: szkic z autoportretu artysty

Abstract

The article presents the artistic achievement of the Polish artist Dimitr Grozdev. Born in 1946 in Bulgaria, Grozdev graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1974. In 1975, he settled down in Bialystok, Podlasie, where he became a well-known artist. His art runs in two currents: the secular and the religious. In the former, he is a painter; a poster artist; a satirist; a cartoonist; a sculptor; a designer of stamps, medals, and logos; a conservator of artworks and books. After 1989, the second current gained importance – Grozdev draws on the tradition of Bulgarian iconography, creating paintings/icons in the technique of assemblage. He designs sculptural installations in Bialystok and paints for Catholic and Orthodox churches. In this current, he tries to reconcile the two branches of Christianity, Rome and Byzantium, in the spirit of what we call Ut unum sint (“that they may be one”). Of Bulgarian descent, Grozdev fi ts perfectly into the multicultural, Catholic and Orthodox traditions of Podlasie, eastern Poland.