Painter, illustrator, photographer poster designer and installation artist.
Eidrigevicius (also known as Stasys) was born on 24th th July 1949 in the village of Medyniszki, Lithuania, of a Polish father and a Lithuanian mother. In 1964-8 he learned artistic leather design at the School of Artistic Crafts in Kaunas, graduating with honours for a leather book covers design. From 1968 he continued his education at the faculty of painting and graphic arts of Vilnius Institute of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1973. He has lived in Warsaw since 1980.
Culture.pl talks to the artist about his childhood fascination with photography and sketching - and how he's developed his craft through the years.
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