relief, acrylic, wood, canvas, 70 x 50 cm, signed and described on the back: 'Janusz ORBITOWSKI 2006 | 19/06 | 70 x 50 cm'.
In 2000 Janusz Orbitowski made the decision to get rid of any chromatic colors in his paintings and to use only white from now on. (...)
For Orbitowski, white was an opportunity to achieve maximum emanation of light. She most fully realized the moving theater of shadows on the convexities and concaves of the reliefs. This is how the visible and invisible, the obvious and the understated, the latent, so mysterious, collided. In the rejection of all decorative features, in the silence, silence and asceticism of white, the artist found the magic and sublimity of secular metaphysics, without which there is no art.
Bożena Kowalska, Janusz Orbitowski. Poet of spatial rhythms, Krakow 2022, p. 136.
LITERATURE:
Bożena Kowalska, Janusz Orbitowski. Poeta przestrzennych rytmów, Kraków 2022, p. 160.
Painter, academic lecturer. From 1961-67 he studied at the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduated in the studio of Professor Adam Marczyński. From 1970 to 2012 he worked at his alma mater. In 1993 he was awarded the title of full professor. He has received scholarships from, among others, the Fondatione Romana (1972), the Kosciuszko Foundation (1983), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2002), has won numerous awards in the field of painting and participated in more than a dozen solo exhibitions and several hundred group exhibitions. The artist's works are in museum collections and numerous private collections, including: Museum of Art in Lodz, National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Szczecin, Museum of Chelm Land in Chelm, District Museum in Torun, Radom, Rzeszow, Bydgoszcz, Podlaskie Museum in Bialystok, Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Museum of Middle Pomerania in Slupsk, Historical and Ethnographic Museum in Chojnice, the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow in Cracow, the Bochum Museum in Bochum, the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort, The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection in Princeton, and The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York.
