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Marcin Rząsa | Jerzy Baranowski | UNTITLED
current exhibition
UNTITLED/ Marcin Rząsa and Jerzy Baranowski
Artists: Marcin Rząsa and Jerzy Baranowski
Place: Galeria 101 Projekt
Date: 18.11 - 05.12.2020
A graduate of the Antoni Kenar Secondary School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, then after a year he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he continued his studies in the studio of prof. Jan Kucz. He defended his diploma under the supervision of prof. Grzegorz Kowalski. In 1994–1995 he studied in Bratislava at VSVU in the studio of J. Jankovic. He lives and works in Zakopane, where he runs the Antoni Rząsa Gallery with his wife, Magda Ciszewska-Rząsa. He presented his works, among others at Polish Institutes in Berlin, Bratislava and Rome, BWA in Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zakopane, the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko and private galleries in Poland and abroad, including in Warsaw, Krakow, German Rosenheim and Dutch Zutphen.
A graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, diploma in the studio of prof. Wojciech Zubala. Jerzy Baranowski also studied in the studio of prof. Stanisław Baj and earlier prof. Wojciech Cieśniewski. He specializes in oil and acrylic painting. He attaches great importance to the workshop in this drawing. Jerzy Baranowski deals with both abstraction and figuration. Apart from geometric abstraction, expressed in a minimalist way - the closest thing to him is magical realism, which can be seen mosty in the artist's earlier works.
