oil / canvas
90 × 80 cm
signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse medium: "KIERZKOWSKI | 1982 | 47 (in circle) Dimension 90 × 80 cm".
Bronislaw Kierzkowski, known for both his painted abstractions and relief compositions, graduated from several art schools: The State Higher School of Fine Arts (today the Academy of Fine Arts) in Lodz in the studio of Władysław Strzemiński, then the State Higher School of Fine Arts (today the Academy of Fine Arts) in Gdansk in the studio of Juliusz Studnicki, and finally the Warsaw Academy under the tutelage of Eugeniusz Eibisch. His interest in non-representational art places him firmly in the circle of artists working in the 1950s and their search, experimentation and reflection on the material itself, as well as the emotion that a canvas isolated from the text and context imposed by recognizable motifs would manage to set in motion. Ultimately, he developed his own way of artistic expression, exploring that area of creativity that we now call matter painting. The type of materials used, the way they are implied on the surface, the emphasis on texture, but also the penchant for ordering patterns and shapes within it, the non-accidental nature of the arrangements allowed him to create an unconventional plastic language.
