Ryszard Winiarski, WITHOUT TITLE - DIPTIC, 1968

81,0 x 65,0 cm - acrylic, canvas dimensions: 81 x 65 cm (each part)

signed on the opposite side on the lower strip of the stretcher f. l. and f. p.: winiarski 1968

on both paintings l.g. sticker from the exhibition at Stefan Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw, 1998, on the l. strip of the loom stamp Fibak Gallery in Warsaw



Provenance:

- Property of Stefan Szydłowski.

- Collection of Wojciech Fibak.

- Private collection.



Image exhibited:

- Stefan Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw 1998.



Image reproduced:

- B. Kowalska, Invitation to the Game. Art by Ryszard Winiarski, "Antiquarian Gazette" No. 2/2007, p. 13, il. (right part).



According to Bożena Kowalska, Ryszard Winiarski created a new way of thinking and creating in painting. He went against conceptualism, which soon became in the West and in the United States the most common and fashionable trend of artistic exploration. From the beginning, his art had an existential sense and an idea that was not so much aesthetic as meaningful.

Winiarski's concept of painting, innovative for the time, was inspired by his idea of the main principle guiding the fate of the world. Some philosophers and artists see this principle in determinism, others in the dialectical clash of opposites, and still others deny the existence of any regularities valid in the universe. For Winiarski, the common rule of development in him was the interaction of program - in the sense of the governing laws in the macro and microcosm, in nature, as well as in human intentions and plans - with unpredictable chance.

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Ryszard Winiarski (Lviv 1936 - Warsaw 2006) graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1959 and took up painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1960-1966). At the end of his studies, in 1965, he formulated his own artistic program and realized his first works in a series entitled. "Attempts at visual presentation of statistical distributions". He received the first prize for them at the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Pulawy in 1966. He adopted squares in black and white as the permanent modules of his works, the order and arrangement of which are governed by chance - a throw of the dice, a draw or a selection of random numbers. In 1970 he introduced the third dimension to his works in the form of spatial images or as an illusion of space obtained by plotting linear perspective. In 1971, the first paintings with incorporated mirrors were created. Since 1972, the artist also arranged "games" with the participation of viewers, who, using his means and method, filled a plane or room with their own "exhibition." From around 1983 Winiarski incorporated meaningful, symbolic and emotionally appealing elements into his works, such as the shape of the cross, natural materials and treatments on them, such as bending (installations: Geometry in a state of tension, 1984, Black Square or Flying Geometry, 1984, Hommage for Henryk Stażewski, 1989). At the same time, since 1960 the artist practiced stage design, being the author of dozens of realizations in this field in theaters throughout Poland. He participated in a great number of exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: Sao Paulo Biennale 1969, I and II Biennale des Konstruktivismus, Nuremberg 1969 and 1971, Construction in Process, Lodz 1981 and Munich 1985. He died on December 4, 2006 in Warsaw.