Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'JAREK AND MAREK CROSS | ANOTHER BORDER | 1984 | RYSZARD WOŹNIAK'.
Origin:
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Ryszard Wozniak. A show of paintings from 1982-1984 "Trembling Stick" as part of the exhibition "Warsaw-Gdansk", Wyspa Gallery, Gdansk, 10.10-26.10.1990
"Gruppa. Myth of Solidarity," Esta Gallery, Gliwice, 8.12-31.12.2017
Literature
Ryszard Wozniak. Show of paintings from 1982-84 "Trembling cane" as part of the exhibition titled: "Gdansk, Warsaw", exhibition catalog, Wyspa Gallery, Gdansk 1990, nlb. (index)
Gruppa 1982-1992, exhibition catalog, Zachęta Gallery, ed. Maryla Sitkowska, Warsaw 1992, p. 98 (mentioned)
Anda Rottenberg, Draught. Texts on Polish Art of the 1980s, Warsaw 2009, p. 291 (ill.).
Gruppa, edited by Agnieszka Szewczyk, Recklinghausen 2023, p. 8 (ill.)
Biography
Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the painting studio of S. Gierowski (graduated in 1981). Since 1982 associated with Gruppa, participated in almost all its exhibitions and actions, co-edited its magazine "Oj dobrze już". In 1987, he won first prize at the Second Youth Biennial "The Way and the Truth" in Wroclaw. In 1985-1989 (intermittently), together with M. Sobczyk, he worked on the polychromy of the Neo-Nicene Orthodox Church in Kostomłoty, Podlasie. In 1986, together with R. Grzyb, he was on scholarship in West Berlin. In 1991/92 he taught at the private School of Art in Warsaw, founded and run by J. Modzelewski and M. Sobczyk. Since 1992, he has been running a painting studio at the Institute of Art Education at the WSP in Zielona Gora. In his work from the 1980s, one can find a commentary on the reality of the People's Republic of Poland ("New Wave popierdala"), he also creates expressive works in strong colors. At the end of the 1980s, a symbolic and metaphorical current emerges in his paintings. In the 1990s, he participates in numerous performances and installations.
