Dimensions: 150 x 120 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FIRST, REALLY | LOVED PIRUET | RYSZARD WOŹNIAK 1985 | oil/canvas | 150 x 130 cm'.
Origins
purchase directly from the artist
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"What's Happening Now in Paradise," solo exhibition, BWA Lublin, November-December 1985
Avanguardia Polacca, Centro Direzionale Colleoni, Agrate Brianza, June-July 1987
Ryszard Wozniak, solo exhibition, BWA Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, September 1991.
"Gruppa 1982-1992: Ryszard Grzyb, Paweł Kowalewski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Marek Sobczyk",
Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, December 1992-February 1993; L. Wyczółkowski District Museum, Bydgoszcz, February-March 1993.
"The Bible in Contemporary Polish Painting," National Museum, Gdansk, May-September 1994.
Ryszard Wozniak. Faith and Work, BWA Zielona Góra, 17.12.1998-10.01.1999
Literature
Avanguardia Polacca, exhibition catalog, Centro Direzionale Colleoni, Agrate Brianza 1987 (il.).
Gruppa 1982-1992: Ryszard Grzyb, Paweł Kowalewski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Marek Sobczyk,
exhibition catalog, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, p. 116, item 184 (index)
Biography
Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the painting studio of S. Gierowski (graduated in 1981). Since 1982 associated with Gruppa, he participated in almost all its exhibitions and actions, co-edited its magazine "Oj dobrze już". In 1987, he won first prize at the Second Youth Biennial "The Way and the Truth" in Wroclaw. In 1985-1989 (intermittently), together with M. Sobczyk, he worked on the polychromy of the Neo-Nicene Orthodox Church in Kostomłoty, Podlasie. In 1986, together with R. Grzyb, he was on scholarship in West Berlin. In 1991/92 he taught at the private School of Art in Warsaw, founded and run by J. Modzelewski and M. Sobczyk. Since 1992, he has been running a painting studio at the Institute of Art Education at the WSP in Zielona Gora. In his work from the 1980s, one can find a commentary on the reality of the People's Republic of Poland ("New Wave popierdala"), he also creates expressive works in strong colors. At the end of the 1980s, a symbolic and metaphorical current emerges in his paintings. In the 1990s, he participates in numerous performances and installations.
