Marcin Osiowski
Marcin J. Osiowski (born May 2, 1957 w Warszawie) – is a Polish painter, poet.
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| Born | 2 May 1957 Warsaw, Poland |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Polish |
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| Known for | painting, performance, poetry |
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Biography[edit]
Osiowski was born in Warsaw, Poland to Anna Osiowska (a journalist, nurse in the Warsaw Uprising 1944) and Jerzy Osiowski (professor of the Warsaw University of Technology, dean of the Faculty of Electronics). He was educated at Staszic (Gottwald) High School and at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University. In the meantime, Osiowski spent 1977 in London where he began his studies on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ‘Remarks on Colour’. At the time of the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, he was in Antwerp where he attended as a free student at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. Now, he lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Work[edit]
The art of Osiowski reflects his conviction that the artist has the right, and even a duty, to interfere in in current and important affairs; he analyzes stereotypes as well as control and propaganda mechanisms.
Parallel to critical art, he creates abstract compositions that concentrate on purely formal aspects such as colour and composition: works from the series ‘Art on Art’, and ‘It is the painter's duty to paint one picture a day’. Since 1977, he has been writing down his remarks on art, including reflections from the time when he studied Wittgenstein. Traces of these thoughts can be found in his returns to themes from theories of aesthetics, the perception of reality, and the relationship of language to culture, specifically to art history.
Osiowski is a critic of excluding and authoritarian attitudes; he combines a specific sense of humor and irony with reflection on social problems. He reaches for the classics of the avant-garde (‘Deconstruction of the Black Square’, and a series of sketches and works in various media referring to Malevich), and converts Wittgenstein's philosophical deliberations into the visual art, and builds the world of ‘impossible images‘(the series ‘What does Runge know about colours?’), or the ironic works ‘Painting for civilians’, and ‘Will this pattern fit your new sofa?’His first student’s solo exhibitions took place in the beginning of the 1980s in Antwerp. From 1986 to 1991, he collaborated with Galerie Astel in Copenhagen, where he began interdisciplinary experiments with the composer and performer of the avant garde group Skræp Olga Magieres whose compositions accompanied one of his exhibitions. Osiowski continues to collaborate with other artists to this day; since 2001, he works and exhibit together with Ryszard Grzyb (project ‘Oba’); their first exhibition took place in the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, the National Museum in Warsaw, and the last one in the HOS Gallery in Warsaw in 2019. Since 2018, Osiowski has also been working with a young artist, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts graduate Julia Słonecka. Together with musician and director Antoni Gustowski, they make up the collective #grupawolno. They presented their paintings and performance titled ‘The Milking of van Gogh’ in HOS Gallery in 2019. The same gallery organized his retrospective show ‘Art on Art’ with almost 200 paintings in autumn 2019 in Warsaw.
On a November night, on the eve of Independence Day celebrations, someone broke into the exhibition, and vandalized eighteen canvasses from the series ‘100 Flags’ (works related to the trivialization of the Independence Day celebrations a year earlier) by spray-painting the statement ‘Jude Raus’ onto them and drawing a gallows. Osiowski referred to these events six months later in the ‘Polaks Cultuur Agenda’ project.
Solo exhibitions[edit]
- HOS Gallery, ‘Art on Art.’ (Warsaw, 2019)
- Galerie Astell, (Copenhagen, 1986 – 1990)
- Pavillon, Galerie Astell, Frederiksberg Have (1988)
- Rozenhof, (Antwerp, 1983 – 1985)
- Pallieterhoeve, (Antwerp, 1982)
Other exhibitions[edit]
- Galeria Kuratorium, ‘You see nothing, you understand nothing (50 plus)’, #grupawolno, (Warsaw, 2019),
- HOS Gallery ‘The Milking of van Gogh’, #grupawolno, (HOS Gallery, Warszawa 2018),
- Galeria Arsenał, ‘Malevich in Poland’, (Białystok, 2004),
- Exhibition ‘2b’, (Norblin Factory, (Warsaw, 2003)
OBA project, exhibitions with Ryszard Grzyb[edit]
- ‘I Pop a Beautiful Sentence into my Mouth, and Suck it Like a Fruit Drop’, (HOS Gallery, Warsaw, 2019),
- Galeria Miejska Arsenał, ‘The First Day of Spring’, (Poznań, 2004)
- ‘Storeys of Art’, (Warsaw, 2003),
- Galeria Promocyjna, ‘The Second Race: Paintings’, (Warsaw, 2003),
- Galeria Program | the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, the National Museum, ‘OBA. Beautifully Unconstrained; the both of us are a Third Person’, (Warsaw, 2003)
Gallery[edit]
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"Flag", 1988, oil on paper, 61 x 43 cm
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“Portrait of God”, 1991, oil and paper on canvas, 180 x 141 cm
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“Establishing the Identity of the Yellow-Eared Men”, 1988-1989, oil and paper on canvas, 130 x 97,5 cm
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"Portrait of a Man with Yellow Ears", 2018, oil and paper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
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"Art on Art", 2018, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
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"11 November", acrylic, acrylic enamel, paper, screen printing ink on folk bedspread mounted on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
External links[edit]
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