Jan Berdyszak (1934-2014), Imageogenic Installation, from the series Photographic Reinstallations, analog photography, framed under glass, 52x77 cm, 1993.
About the work:Jan Berdyszak (1934-2014), Imageogenic Installation, from the series Photographic Reinstallations, analog photography, framed under glass, 52x77 cm, 1993, analog photography, personal technique. Back top: signature Jan Berdyszak 1993. Back bottom: Imageogenic Installation, photographic reinstallation. Imageogenic Installation is a work made in the technique of analog photography from the seriesPhotographic Reinstallations, in which the artist continues the concept of the structural image, which he began in 1965. The cut-out fragment of the image constitutes the ontologically homogeneous matter of the work. In the concept of the work, the author also develops issues of the morphology of the artwork in the context of space-time.
Jan Berdyszak (1934-2014) graduated in sculpture from the School of Fine Arts (now the University of Arts) in Poznan in 1958. He worked at his alma mater since 1965, serving as vice-rector in 1984-87. A versatile artist, he expressed himself in sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, mixed techniques, created stage designs, and wrote texts on the theory and philosophy of art. Jan Berdyszak's work was a process of building his own philosophy of work and creative process. At the center of his philosophy of the work were such concepts, described by him as first entities, as emptiness, darkness, density, transparency, potentiality. Jan Berdyszak's creations can be divided both into periods and into threads that continue throughout his activity. These are the threads that introduce into the structure of the work real space, imaginary space, the concept of emptiness, shell, remainder, space-time and the philosophically and artistically elaborate concept of sacrum.
