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Artist
Biography
Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz was born in 1951 in Ivlakow Mazowiecki, Poland.
He graduated at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1976).
Works and activity: book illustrations, cartoons. prints, posters paintings and stage sets.
Debuts in the magazines „Polska" and 7, Szpilkir in 1972.
Publications in periodicals and the Polish press, e.g.: „itd": „Karuzela", „Kobieta i Zycie", „Magazyn Rodzinny", „Radar", „Razem", „Rzeczpospolita", „Sukces" (artistic director 1998-2000)„.Szpilki", „Sztandar Mlodych": „Zycie Warszawy", as well as abroad: ,Pardon" and „Slapstick" (Germany). Collaboration with publishers: Bertelsmann, Czytelnik: Iskry, KAW. MAW, MON, Murator (art director —1996-1998); Nasza Ksiegarnia.
Author of posters for films and various events: set and costume designs for the Adekwatny Theatre in Warsaw.
He has served on the juries of national and international cartoon competitions. Initiator and organiser of international cartoon competitions. „The Ball Is In Play", „The Great and the Little Warsaw", as well as the national competitions for the „Cartoon of the Month" and „Cartoon of the Year".
2011 —2014 — Director of the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art (MCCA) in Warsaw. His artworks have been awarded numerous prizes at home and abroad
