Henryk Waniek, From the Flight of a Bird, 1988

38.5 x 55.0 cm - oil, canvas On the back signed p.d.: HENRYK WANIEK | DEC. 1988 | Z LOTU PTAKA [ in frame] | WITH BIRDSEYE, next to it sticker with collection no. 9007 | 552 x 385, l.d.: H. WANIEK, below it address of the artist, l.g. export stamp, on the g. strip of the loom inscriptions in lead and no. 11 [in marker].



Provenance:

- Purchased in the 1990s at the State DESA Company in Warsaw for the Museum of European Art in Osaka, Japan.

- After the museum closed, a private collection in Asia.

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Henryk Waniek (born Oświęcim on March 4, 1942, lives in Warsaw) studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice - a branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and received his diploma in 1970. While still at university, he became associated with painters with a fantasy-magic orientation, Barbara and Henryk "Fantazos" Ziembicki. He then joined the Oneiron group (including Andrzej Urbanowicz, Urszula Broll, filmmaker Antoni Halor), which was perhaps the first in Poland in the counterculture generation to put forward a program of integrating art with Eastern philosophy and attempted to penetrate and artistically exploit so-called altered states of consciousness. Wańek's work is based on the impeccable technique of a painter-realist and the erudition of an explorer of the past, secret knowledge, symbolism of numbers, etc. The artist is also no stranger to the literary legacy, especially its fantasy and visionary themes. However, this is only a framework for his purely artistic imagination and sensitivity with which he creates the imaginary spaces of his landscapes - panoramic and cosmic wildernesses and landscapes peculiarly "civilized", built-up, but never populated strictly speaking. In addition to painting, the artist is involved in theater and film set design, posters, as well as essayism and art criticism. He publishes in magazines and has also published collections of his texts in book editions.