Ryszard Winiarski, DICE THROW, 1998

40,0 x 30,5cm - acrylic, pencil, canvas signed on the back of the binding: for | Joanna | Winiarski | threw | dice | winiarski '98



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Ryszard Winiarski (Lviv 1936 - Warsaw 2006) graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1959 and took up painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1960-1966). At the end of his studies, in 1965, he formulated his own artistic program and realized the first works in a series entitled. "Attempts at visual presentation of statistical distributions". He received the first prize for them at the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Pulawy in 1966. He adopted squares in black and white as the permanent modules of his works, the order and arrangement of which are governed by chance - a throw of the dice, a draw or a selection of random numbers. In 1970 he introduced the third dimension to his works in the form of spatial images or as an illusion of space obtained by plotting linear perspective. In 1971, the first paintings with incorporated mirrors were created. Since 1972, the artist also arranged "games" with the participation of viewers, who, using his means and method, filled a plane or room with their own "exhibition." From around 1983 Winiarski incorporated meaningful, symbolic and emotionally appealing elements into his works, such as the shape of the cross, natural materials and treatments on them, such as bending (installations: Geometry in a state of tension, 1984, Black Square or Flying Geometry, 1984, Hommage for Henryk Stażewski, 1989). At the same time, since 1960 the artist practiced stage design, being the author of dozens of realizations in this field in theaters throughout Poland. He participated in a great number of exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: Sao Paulo Biennale 1969, I and II Biennale des Konstruktivismus, Nuremberg 1969 and 1971, Construction in Process, Lodz 1981 and Munich 1985. He died on December 4, 2006 in Warsaw.