Jan Berdyszak (1934 - 2014), Double circles in red, 1963

oil, paper; 45.5 x 25.5 cm;
Signed and dated on the reverse: "JAN / BER / DYSZ / AK / 1963" (in watercolor).

Provenance:
private collection, Poznań

Bibliography:
Kowalska B., "Creators-Posts. Artists of my gallery", Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow 1981.

Jan Berdyszak's intriguing use of geometric forms - often cut, cropped, incomplete - is meant to direct the viewer's attention to what is beyond the tangible boundaries of the picture frame or paper edge - to the (apparent) emptiness. And in fact - space - one of the basic points of reference in reality. "Move" in it not only people, but also objects. The artist stressed that, similarly, the perception of a painting depends on the space in which it is placed, or the strength of its illumination. Relativism in the perception of the surrounding world, and at the same time the interaction of its elements, took on tangible forms in the context of the artwork, realized in the artist's numerous experiments. The offered work was created in 1963. Describing the years 1963-1965, the artist states, among other things: "I began to value the value of absence, understatement, emptiness, and the value of the relationship of the form of the whole and its context with the environment as the first value in formulating my content."