Dimensions: 73 x 65 cm
Inscribed on the reverse: '"Luft"
on the reverse a mounting note and a sticker from the National Museum in Warsaw and the stamp of Zderzak Gallery in Cracow
Origins
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, 2020
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Jurry. Return of the Artist," National Museum, Cracow, 10.10-12.12.2010, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, 25.03-15.04.2011
Jerzy Ryszard "Jurry" Zielinski, "Paradis", Zderzak Gallery, Krakow 16.09-17.10.2015
Literature
Jurry. Return of the Artist, [ed.] Marta Tarabuła, exhibition catalog, Zderzak Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw, p. 200 (il.), cat. 137, p. 454 (index)
Biography
One of the legends of artistic life in the 1960s and 1970s in Warsaw.
In 1962-68 he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Initially he studied sculpture in the studio of Alfred Jesion, and then painting under Jan Wodyński and Jan Cybis, in whose studio he received his diploma. From 1971 he also studied stage design. During this period he met the artist Jan Dobkowski, with whom he formed the Neo-Neo-Neo Group, active in 1965-70. Jurry and Dobkowski, on the one hand, rejected the academic training profile, which was based on the orthodox colorism of Polish painters, while on the other hand they parodied the pompous artistic manifestos of the avant-garde artists of their time. Jurry died tragically at the age of 37.