Anniversary exhibition of Zbigniew Jujka “60 years passed as one day”
This year the artist celebrates the 60th jubilee of creative work and the 50th year of continuous publication in one newspaper (Dziennik Bałtycki) under the same title: Dzienniczek (A Journal).

Zbigniew Jujka
He was born in 1935 in Stary Targ, Powiśle (Pomorskie Voivodeship). He had made his debut as a caricaturist in 1953 in Gazeta Zielonogórska before he began studies at the Interior Design Faculty of the State School of Fine Arts in Gdansk (now the Academy of Fine Arts). Since then he has created several dozen thousand cartoons. He is known for publications in numerous magazines and daily newspapers, including foreign ones. He enduringly marked his presence in Dziennik Bałtycki, where since 1963 he has been publishing weekly Dzienniczek – a satirical news service.

He has published 57 authorial albums and illustrated several dozen books. His works are to be found in many albums of Polish and European satire, published both in Poland and abroad.
He is mainly preoccupied with editorial cartoons. He does not care to be popular. His philosophy is that a cartoon should speak for itself. He does not use electronic devices, he has never collaborated for a longer period of time with the opinion-forming weekly magazines – he may be less prominent than other editorial cartoonists because of that. He speaks through his cartoons primarily to the so-called backwoods.
He has gained the greatest popularity publishing, since June 1963, Dzienniczek in Dziennik Bałtycki (and for many years also in other newspapers in Poland). A set of 6-8 drawings in interrelated panels, commenting once a week on current news, was so influential that to this day many politicians, prominent activists, scientists, and artists admit that their awareness developed also thanks to Zbigniew Jujka’s editorial cartoons, that they were reared on them. It must be mentioned that even in the most difficult times he would manage to get round the censorship regulations by means of clever allusiveness. Until 1989 he had to fight for almost every cartoon.

The popularity of Dzienniczek stands the test of time. It has devoted readers, and to prevail with one’s editorial cartoons for 50 years can be considered a great success in the Polish press.

VERNISSAGE: 27th June 2013 (Thursday), 6 pm
The exhibition opened from 28th June to 16th July 2013 (10 am – 6 pm)

ADMISSION: free