Janusz Eysymont (1930-1991), Black painting, 1982
Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 82.5 (frame).
Signed, dated (IV/82) and title on the back.
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Janusz Eysymont - painter. Born in 1930 in Lviv.In 1957, he received his diploma from the painting department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied in the studios of Prof. Stanisław Czajkowski and Aleksander Kobzdej. A few years later, in 1964, he founded the group "Rekonesans" with his former college colleagues. From 1967 to 1980 he worked as an artistic designer for the Central Laboratory of the Linen Industry in Zyrardow. He traveled extensively, including to France, Italy, England, Germany, but also China, Mongolia and the USA. In the 1980s, he joined the opposition: he was active in the Union of Polish Artists, supporting the strike at the Gdansk Shipyard and the creation of Solidarity; he was a re-presentative of ZPAP in the Agreement Committee of Creative and Scientific Associations. In 1981, he became one of the co-organizers and later chairman of the Congress of Polish Culture. During martial law, he was active in the Warsaw Chaplaincy of the Creative Communities. He died in Warsaw in 1991.
From the beginning of his Eysymont was primarily interested in abstraction. Initially interested in artistic gesture, over time his style evolved towards very static compositions. Invariably, however, light and shadow play a central role in his work, creating compositions - in color, later in monochrome - based on the opposition of lit and unlit planes. The artist also did not hesitate to pose questions of a more spiritual or even metaphysical nature, about the nature of God or faith.
