PIETA (SALA No 29)

Czesnik, Henryk

Highlights of the artwork

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

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Product number: 34476

Artist: Czesnik, Henryk

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.

Informations about the artwork

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

Information about the 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.

Information about the artist

Henryk Cześnik was born in 1951 in Sopot, Poland.

Cześnik studied at the Faculty of Painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and graduated in 1977 in the painting studio of Professor Kazimierz Ostrowski.

Since 2003 he has been a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He works as a painter, draughtsman, stage designer, curator and actor. He is the author of several essays, including on the works of Jerzy Skolimowski.

Cześnik has participated in several dozen solo exhibitions in the most important art galleries, museums and other exhibition centres in Poland and abroad. His works can be found in the collections of the national museums in Warsaw, Gdansk, Moscow, Sofia and Dresden, as well as in many private collections in Poland and abroad.

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