{"id":16035,"date":"2025-04-10T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/?page_id=16035"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:39:04","slug":"zdzislaw-beksinski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/zdzislaw-beksinski\/","title":{"rendered":"Zdzislaw Beksinski"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zdzislaw Beksinski<\/strong> (Sanok 24 February 1929 \u2013 Warsaw 21 February 2005)<\/p>\n

He studied in the years 1947-1952 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. He was a self-taught artist who achieved an undisputed position in Polish contemporary art, confirmed by the presence of his works at prestigious exhibitions and in museum collections. Initially, he dealt with photography, in which he had been interested since his student years, after 1956 gaining recognition as a creator of photograms with an aesthetic based on textural effects.<\/p>\n

In the years 1958-1962 he created abstract relief paintings with rich texture, mainly metal, which were a type of matter painting. At the end of this period, openwork forms in the shape of figures and full-plastic sculptures in metal were created. The next stage of his work was the years 1962-1974, when he devoted himself mainly to drawing. In the 1960s, he drew figurative compositions with pen and ink, distinguished by caricatural deformation of the figures. From the end of the 1960s, he created drawings in charcoal and crayons, which were a monochromatic variety of his parallel painting work.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the 60s, Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski made literary attempts, very interesting ones at that. They were published by Wydawnictwo BOSZ in the book "Opowiadania" and are highly rated, among others by Professor Bralczyk.<\/p>\n

Since 1974, he has been almost exclusively occupied with painting. His characteristic style was based on technical perfection, accompanied by an extraordinary vision. He painted a world after a catastrophe, marked by the stigma of death and decay. His paintings are inhabited by figures and creatures of human or animal shapes, but with the features of phantoms, automatons or decaying corpses. The artist did not give his paintings and drawings titles (apart from the symbols that organize them), thus emphasizing his lack of interest in the literary side of representations. He himself said that when he painted, he completely surrendered to the vision, "photographed" it. In recent years, he incorporated electronic image generation techniques into his artistic workshop, which he used to create computer photomontages. Beksi\u0144ski's art, frequently exhibited and discussed, arouses extreme emotions among experts and the public.<\/p>\n

The largest, systematically updated collection of his works in Poland is located in the Historical Museum in Sanok, and abroad \u2013 in Paris, in the possession of Piotr Dmochowski, who has been collecting works and promoting the artist's oeuvre since 1983.<\/p>\n

He organized Beksi\u0144ski's solo exhibitions, among others, at the Galerie Valmay in Paris in 1985, 1986 and 1988, as well as a permanent exhibition at his own Galerie Dmochowski \u2013 Mus\u00e9e-galerie de Beksi\u0144ski, which existed from 1989 to 1996. He also published the artist's monumental albums in 1988 and 1991.<\/p>\n

Since October 2016, the Nowa Huta Cultural Center in Krakow has been permanently hosting an exhibition of 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs) by Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski from the private collection of Anna and Piotr Dmochowski. Since June 2021, a permanent exhibition of 30 Beksi\u0144ski paintings from the Dmochowski collection has also been presented at the Archdiocese Museum in Warsaw.<\/p>\n

In the years 2020-2024, the Historical Museum in Sanok organized a number of exhibitions of Beksi\u0144ski's paintings from its collection in various cities in Poland (Tychy, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Warsaw, Gda\u0144sk), often combined with multimedia shows for the public.<\/p>\n

MHS is the exclusive heir and holder of the copyright to the works of Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(zdj\u0119cie: Piotr Dmochowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8960820 ) Zdzis\u0142aw Beksi\u0144ski (Sanok 24 II 1929 - Warszawa 21 II 2005) studiowa\u0142 [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"right-sidebar","site-content-layout":"plain-container","ast-site-content-layout":"normal-width-container","site-content-style":"boxed","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16035","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nova.agraart.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}