Ryszard WOŹNIAK (b. 1956), Screen Landscape 3, 2010

Screen Landscape 3, 2010
oil, canvas; 100 x 130 cm;
signed, dated and described on the back: RYSZARD WOŹNIAK / 2010 [in circle] / PEJZAŻ EKRANOWY 3 / oil, 100 x 130 / (VELL).

EXHIBITED:
- Landscape of the South 2010. denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita, aTAK Gallery, Warsaw, 28 I 2011 - 12 III 2011.

Painting is my primary mode of expression. I use it as a set of tools that enable me to gain insight into reality, while I am not interested in painting that explores its appearance. A painting is an energy point for me. So the quality of a painting depends on the amount of energy it contains and its power to act on the viewer - Ryszard Wozniak.

Screen Landscape 3 was created during an open-air painting workshop organized by Krzysztof Musial in 2010 in the Italian town of Vellano, which was also attended by Ryszard Wozniak's former and then students. According to the artist's account, during the stay, the weather was not good, probably hence the sort of "misty" colors of the landscape of the nearby mountains viewed as if through an additional veil. The canvases painted during his stay in Italy are at the same time a dialogue with the paintings of Tomasz Tatarczyk, who was also a guest in Vellano a few years earlier. The stay in Italy was summed up, organized by the aTak gallery with an exhibition that also featured Basia Bańda, Slawek Czajkowski, Monika Czekańska, Michał Jankowski, Aleksandra Kubiak, Elżbieta Prusinowska and Rafał Wilk.
Ryszard Wozniak belongs to the group of artists active between 1982 and 1992 in the GRUPPA art group - one of the most interesting art collectives of the 1980s. The painter at the time also created so-called "poster paintings" bearing symbols often with political overtones. In 1986 he went on a scholarship to West Berlin. Since 1995 he co-founded the KRAAA Association (Collective Movement of Animation of Artistic Activity) was an animator at the Pracownia Wolnego Wyboru (Free Choice Workshop) Gallery in Zielona Góra, where he has been running a painting studio at the local university since 1992. Since 1991, Ryszard Wozniak began to multiply his compositions. In 1995, he presented a series of paintings called "Step Back," referring to canvases from the 1980s, building an installation out of them. From that moment on, the theme of "auto-recycling" appeared in Ryszard Wozniak's work, continued in works created on posters or invitations to exhibitions of past times. Since 2000, he has been subjecting school information boards popular in the 1960s to a similar transformation.