Dimensions: 150 x 201 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'JERZY RYSZARD ZIELIŃSKI 'BEFORE' (GENESIS) JURRY 71 IV'.
on the reverse stickers from the National Museum in Warsaw
Origins
legacy of the artist, Ciechanowiec, direct purchase
Exhibited
Neo "Brzask" painting exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, June-July, 1971.
Painting of Jerzy Ryszard Zieliński, ZPAP BWA Bydgoszcz, 1972
"Return of Jurry," Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, 8.10.2010-10.12.2010; National Museum in Cracow, 8.10.2010-30.10.2010.
Jerzy "Jurry" Zielinski: Paintings 1968-1977, Luxembourg & Dayan, London 15.10.2013-14.12.2013
Literature
Neo "Brzask" painting exhibition, exhibition catalog, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1971
Return of Jurry, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow 2010, cat. no. 105, pp. 159 (il.), 450
Jerzy "Jurry" Zielinski: Paintings 1968-1977, exhibition catalog, Luxembourg & Dayan, London 2013, p. 58 (ill.).
Biography
One of the legends of the artistic life of 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. From 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.