Ryszard Waśko (1947), Meditative drawings, 1999

2 drawings, pencil, crayon, paper
29.7 x 21 cm each
signed on front, signed, titled, dated on back binding: passe-partout, wooden frame, glass
One of three works in which the author drew on various motifs to present juxtapositions of their positive and negative versions. The reference for these drawings was the photographic experiments carried out in the 1970s, in which the author juxtaposed the reality-consistent positive representation of the photographed objects with their negative reversal. These analytical experiments addressed the role of the usually overlooked negative as a starting point and source material. Several decades later, the author attempted to create non-existent negatives of digital photographs. The work exemplifies the artist's characteristic practice of crossing art genre boundaries, intermedia references and working out the properties of one medium using the tools of another medium.

Work reproduced in, among others: Ryszard Waśko, The International Artists' Museum, Tel Aviv 2000.