Dimensions: 50 x 49.5 x 11.5 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'Jan Ziemski 1974'
Origin:
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
"The art of balance: between geometry and variation", BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice, 7.02-9.03.2025.
Biography
Studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin since 1956. He was a co-founder of the Zamek Group. His first painting compositions can be described as metaphorical. Since 1958, the artist experimented with the surface of the painting, introducing near-paralyzing, concrete matter. The artist's most interesting experience was the "formuras", or paintings-objects of complex texture, molded in plaster, executed in 1960-64. Since the mid-1960s, the artist was fascinated by the problems of visualization of space, movement and light (RYTMS, 1971; PERMUTATIONS, 1973). In the 1980s, Ziemski extremely simplified his palette and in his last works used only black and white (METAMORPHOSES series). A regular participant in plein-airs and symposia, including the KOSZALIŃSKI PLENARS in Osieki.
