Jerzy TCHÓRZEWSKI (1928-1999), Landscape, 1964

oil, canvas; 80 x 100 cm;
Sign. and date. middle d: JTchórzewski 64;
Inscribed on the reverse: J. Tchórzewski 64 / "KRAJOBRAZ".
PROVENANCE:
- private collection, Warsaw
- the artist's legacy
EXHIBITED:
- Jerzy Tchórzewski. Painting, Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow 1987;
- Jerzy Tchórzewski. Other Views. Works from private collections,
Kordegarda. Gallery of the National Cultural Center, Warsaw,
December 4, 2019 - January 12, 2020;
- Jerzy Tchórzewski. A Different Look. Works from private collections, Museum
Archdiocese of Warsaw, Warsaw, December 5, 2019 - March 1, 2020.
REPRODUCED:
- Jerzy Tchórzewski. Another Look. Works from private collections,
exhibition catalog, National Cultural Center/Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw
Warsaw, Warsaw 2019, p. 30 (ill.);
- Suffering of form. Jerzy Tchórzewski. Painting. Catalog, ed. by K. Czerni
and J. Grabski, published by Irsa, Krakow 2019, p. 322.

Jerzy Tchórzewski comes from the Krakow art community.
His works were first presented right there in 1948.
It happened during the First Exhibition of Modern Art, which was quickly
closed as a result of the formation of the new politics of the late 1940s.
The exhibition also featured Alfred Lenica, Tadeusz Brzozowski and
Kazimierz Mikulski. The work of all four painters, although at different
its stages, are united by the use of aesthetics similar to French
Surrealism. In the case of the paintings of Jerzy Tchórzewski, the impression of
of oneiric or lyrical composition, also accompanies him in the subsequent
years of his artistic activity. The poetics of space visualized
by means of abstract, but also energetic - energetic, clashing
clashing forms, plays an important role in the artist's works. His paintings and
artistic attitude are compared to demiurgic activities such as
calling new life from the inanimate matter of the painting or the symbolic
process of igniting the element of fire from two dry logs, which are identified
one with the artist the other with the matter of the painting that has just begun.
Jerzy Tchórzewski's artistic sensitivity is not closed only
in the "pictorial" framework. The artist valued contemporary poetry, maintained
relations with the literary circles of the time thanks to his friendship with Zbigniew
Herbert and Tadeusz Różewicz. This lively exchange of thoughts, alertness,
sensitivity and emotionality of the author himself make the painter's canvases
also touch on existential and eschatological aspects.