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Jerzy Ryszard /Jurry/ Zieliński
Born June 1 1943, KazimierzówDied March 5 1980, Warsaw
Polish painter, poet, existentialist, and one of the symptomatic and symbolic characters of the Polish totalitarian period. Zielińský combined artistic, social, and political engagements. He used artistic means as a publically shared language. His works were largely influenced by pop-art.
1962
From 1962 to 1968, Jerzy Zieliński studied at the Academy of Fine Arts / Akademii Sztuk Pięknych in Warsaw. He dealt with the art of sculpture under the leadership of Alfred Jesion. However, he actually graduated from the painting studio of Jan Wodyński (1903-1988) and Jan Cybis (1897-1972). From the early 1970’s he also took an interest in scenography.
1965
In 1965, with Jan Dobkowski (1942), he established the Neo-Neo-Neo Group. He classified his works as aism, whose goal was to deliberately question the systematic artistic training and lampoon the proclamations of artistic manifestoes. Zieliński was provocative in texts, where he commented on the artistic world as well as the general social and political situation. The subtitle of the Group was: „znaki drogowe polityczne jegzystencji w PRL"/ "Road signs of the political existence in the PRL (People's Republic of Poland)"
1967
All the Neo-Neo-Neo group's exhibiting activity took place in the last three years of the 1960's. Zielińský presented works which were greatly influenced by the principles of Art Nouveau and Pop-Art. Considering the simplification, strong contours, and harsh colourfulness, his style is reminiscent of current poster typography. He deliberatively chose an approach which corresponded to the social situation of the time
1968
Hot (painting)
1969
In the late 1960's, Zielińský and his friends organized a crucial exhibition which reflected an understanding in the horizons of visual perception, and which was later referred to as the exhibition of spatial forms / form przestrzennych in Polfa workshops in Tarchomiń. Zieliński presented his newest works there: Anaksymander/ Anaximander
Study of Soil (painting)
1970
At the Informacja - Wyobraźnia–Działanie/ Information – Painting – Action exhibition at the Galeria Współczesné/ Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zieliński presented the Bez buntu/ Without Rebellion painting / object. It was a large canvas depicting a human head with its tongue stuck out and ostentatiously nailed to the base. The spontaneity of expression and the reduction of decorativeness in favour of expression and even ruggedness were typical of Zieliński's late works.
1975
Hour of Beginning – Two Creators (painting)
1976
Drop in the Sea (painting)
1980
Jerzy Richard Zieliński died in Warsaw in March 1980. Many colleagues have celebrated his life by memorial paintings (among others Wiesław Szamborski, Po pogrzebie/ After the Funeral, 1980
1995
Galerie Sztuki Współczesnej Zachęta/ The Gallery of Contemporary Art Zachęta in Warsaw held a large retrospective exhibition of the Neo-Neo-Neo group which was also accompanied by a catalogue.
2010
The National Museum in Krakow presented Powrót Jurry'ego/ Jurry's Return
2013
Century of Relativity. Permanent Exhibition of 20th Century Fine Arts (group exhibition, Olomouc)
2015
Truth Beauty Goodness. From The Zachęta Collection (group exhibition, Warsaw)
The World Goes Pop (group exhibition, London)
The World Goes Pop (group exhibition, London)