ROBIN ELEY

DARIA ENDRESEN

IGOR MORSKI

 Igor Morski (b. 1960) Polish graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. Presently, he focuses on mixed media graphic art, based manly on photo manipulation, drawing, recently also 3D.

Igor Morski graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań (now the University of Arts). In the late 80’s and early 90’s he worked for public broadcasting company Polish Television creating set design for TV theatre, culture and commentary shows.

In the early 90’s the artist pursued a career in press illustration, working for leading Polish titles including „Wprost”, „Newsweek”, „Businesweek”, „Businesman Magazine”, „Manager Magazine”, „Charaktery”, „Psychologia dziś” or recently „Focus”. So far, he has created about 1000 illustrations. His work also regularly appears in international magazines (American „Deloitte Review”, Australian „Prevention”, „Money”, „ITB” and „Men’s Health”, “Womans Health, George). He is a winner of many prestigious awards including Communication Arts Excellence Award (2008, 2010) and Applied Arts Award (2010).

ODD NERDRUM

"Odd Nerdrum was born in Hälsingborg, Sweden in 1944. He was a student at The Academy of Art in Oslo at the time when Modernism made its delayed entry to Norway. During a study trip to Stockholm organized by the academy, he broke out from the group of students who had gathered round the works of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein in the Museum of Modern Art. Nerdrum headed off  to the Rembrandt Hall in The National Museum and was standing spellbound in front of Claudius Civilis. It was a turning point  in his life and he decided to learn painting in the manner of Rembrandt.

The decision immediately brought him into conflict with the students and professors of the academy. None of them mastered the old techniques and all of them thought his project was reactionary and obnoxious.  He left the academy and started to study the old masters.

Nerdrum felt a particular affinity to Caravaggio as well as Rembrandt.  Caravaggio, because of the realism and implacable, dramatic temperament reflected in his works, and Rembrandt for his picturesque substance and patience with man. The two extremes would later shape the elasticity in the universe of Nerdrum´s pictures."

( Nerdrum Institute)