
Overgrowth (Auschwitz)
1965
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
Part of the collection: The Wprost group's attitude towards March 1968
Work from the series ‘March’68’ created by Zbylut Grzywacz in April 1968 as a direct commentary on the March events in Krakow, witnessed by the then young (29-year-old) artist. The drawing depicts a scene seen by Grzywacz on March 8, on the day of the first student protests, when the communist authorities were also celebrating the Women’s Day. In the Planty park next to the university, a militiaman was kicking a student lying on the ground. As the artist said: ‘What I saw overlapped with a drawing, previously made, with a motif of rape. Hence the truncheon-phallus and the cop casting his shadow upon the girl’ ('(Auto)portret artysty z czasów młodości. Ze Zbylutem Grzywaczem rozmawia Joanna Boniecka, in: Zbylut Grzywacz 1939–2004, Kraków 2008, p. 26).
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Author / creator
Dimensions
cały obiekt: height: 35 cm, width: 49,8 cm
Object type
drawing
Technique
ink
Material
ink; paper
Creation time / dating
Creation / finding place
Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
Location / status
Waltoś, Jacek
1965
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
Grzywacz, Zbylut
1968
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (Warszawa; 1944-1990)
1969
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
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