Henryk Czesnik PIETA (SALA No 29) (1994)


  • Painting and collage on hospital bed sheets
  • Art history motif - Suffering Mary with dead Jesus
  • Important painter and professor from Poland
  • Matching frame free of charge for pick-up

€12,000.00*

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Product number: 34476
Informations
Category Object
artist Czesnik, Henryk
year 1994
Title PIETA (SALA No 29)
size 1 216,0 x 136,0 cm
material Oil, coloured chalks and collage on bed sheet
edition Unique
signature Titled at the top: PIETA (SALA No 29)Lower right signed and dated: H. Czesnik 94
Provenance Private Collection Germany
condition
The Object is in a very good state of preservation
Slight creases due to the material. (Sheet folded). The matching frame can be picked up from us.
artist
Henryk Cześnik wurde 1951 in Sopot, Polen geboren.

Cześnik studierte an der Fakultät für Malerei der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Danzig und absolvierte sein Diplom 1977 im Malatelier von Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski.

Seit 2003 ist er als ordentlicher Professor tätig an der Kunstakademie Danzig. Er arbeitet als Maler, Zeichner, Bühnenbilder, Kurator und Schauspieler. Er ist Autor mehrerer Essays, unter anderem über die Werke von Jerzy Skolimowski.

Cześnik hat an mehreren Dutzend Einzelausstellungen in den wichtigsten Kunstgalerien, Museen und anderen Ausstellungseinrichtungen in Polen und im Ausland teilgenommen. Seine Werke befinden sich in den Sammlungen der Nationalmuseen in Warschau, Danzig, Moskau, Sofia und Dresden sowie in vielen privaten Sammlungen in Polen und im Ausland.

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Features and remarks


Here you have the opportunity to acquire an expansive painting by Henryk Cześnik.

The painting, created in 1994, was painted on a hospital sheet - a trademark of the Gdansk painter.Illness and art

Cześnik is known for his expressive works created from the immediacy of drawing. Deformed human figures are a recurring motif in his works.In his works, Cześnik weaves his own and experienced stories into dark, atmospheric collages of image and material. Due to a long period of illness, he repeatedly situates his pictures in hospital scenarios and a correspondingly ambiguous mood.

With the "Pietà", Cześnik brings one of the most famous motifs in Western art history into the present. Known as a symbol of compassion, it is simultaneously deconstructed and re-energised with modern means.

Where in Michelangelo's famous Roman Pietà, perfection of representation and expression is the measure of all things, the Polish painter focuses on the "dirty facts" - the banality and imperfection of the human condition.

The body of Christ lying in the womb of the Mother of God is clearly recognisable. With a collaged face in the style of a popular devotional image, the Saviour is clearly identified - even if he appears here still alive and with his eyes open, contrary to the demands of the subject.

The rest of the depiction is much more rudimentary: Mary is only indicated as a sketch in a block. Her colours blue and red accentuate individual parts of her "absent" figure. The rest remains "dirt" and emptiness.

„It doesn't matter in my work, the sense of time doesn't count, it's unimportant, the situation can take place a hundred years ago and maybe a hundred years from now, or maybe today. It doesn't matter, the most important thing is the atmosphere, the climate builds up my inner being, the situation I find myself in, this moment is important and decides everything.“

Henryk Cześnik

The picture comes with a matching frame - at the buyer's request, this can be handed over when collecting the picture. Otherwise the work will be sent together for more favourable shipping.