Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'JURRY | 23.08. | 'KTO UGASI' | JERZY RYSZARD ZIELIŃSKI | [...]'.
on the reverse: stickers from Zaklady Artystycznych Association of Polish Artists and Designers and from Rempex auction house
Origins
Rempex, pre-2005
Literature
Return of Jurry, Zderzak Gallery, Krakow 2010, cat. no. 140, p. 454 (ill.)
Biography
One of the legends of artistic life in the 1960s and 1970s in Warsaw.
In 1962-68 he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Initially he studied sculpture in the studio of Alfred Jesion, and then painting under Jan Wodyński and Jan Cybis, in whose studio he received his diploma. Since 1971, he also studied stage design. During this period he met the artist Jan Dobkowski, with whom he formed the Neo-Neo-Neo Group, active in 1965-70. Jurry and Dobkowski, on the one hand, rejected the academic training profile, which was based on the orthodox colorism of Polish painters, while on the other hand they parodied the pompous artistic manifestos of avant-garde artists of their time. Jurry died tragically at the age of 37.
