DOI Artikel:
Żakiewicz, Anna: Marek Jaromski's Religious Art in the Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18949#0157
Anna Zakiewicz
Marek Jaromski's Rellgious Art
in the Collections
of the National Museum
in Warsa w
Marek Jaromski is one of the most interesting contemporary middle-aged
artists. An alumnus of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, a pupil of Halina
Chrostowska, after obtaining a diploma in 1980 he was shortly an assistant
at the Graphics Department of his alma mater. Then he resigned, and retreated
from big city life, began to live in a village (Ponikiew Wielka, 100 km north
of Warsaw, in the vicinity of Ostrołęka),1 because he felt that he belonged
there. He went where he felt the nearness to Heaven and was able to look
from the distance at himself and his hitherto life. However it was not “an
escape to the desert” exclusively for the purpose of contemplation. Jaromski
always willingly participates in exhibitions, carrying his works everywhere,
so that people can see them. Through original paper prints and earth prints2
composed of spacious installations the artist offers a spectator something
morę than pure aesthetic experiences. He shares his metaphysical experiences,
faith, and hope and most of all - joy of life, which he draws from religion as
well as from his own creation. He enriches fine art works with musie, poetry
and prayer; as self-composed C Major tune Blues for God on the harmonica,
also beautiful poems by his friend, poet Marcin Brykczyński, ąuotations
from the Holy Bibie, especially excerpts from First Saint PauPs letter to the
Corinthians about love: “If I have the eloąuence of men or of angels, but
speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbał clashing” (lCo
13:1-2). The artist writes these words in many languages on self madę paper
pats that he distributes during the openings of his exhibitions. He often gives
away paper hearts being the elements of an installation Blues for God.
1 Last year he returned to Warsaw because of his family, nonetheless, he misses Ponikiew,
where he has left his workshop in which he still works from time to time.
2 Paper prints and earth prints are Jaromski’s own invention. The artist produces papers of
a different thickness and consistency, which he sticks together and then he transfers his works
on them using a linoleum-block printing techniąue. They are of a specific texture different
from an ordinary linoleum-block printing. Adding sand, lumps of earth, and even tiny stones
to the paper, makes earth prints.
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Marek Jaromski's Rellgious Art
in the Collections
of the National Museum
in Warsa w
Marek Jaromski is one of the most interesting contemporary middle-aged
artists. An alumnus of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, a pupil of Halina
Chrostowska, after obtaining a diploma in 1980 he was shortly an assistant
at the Graphics Department of his alma mater. Then he resigned, and retreated
from big city life, began to live in a village (Ponikiew Wielka, 100 km north
of Warsaw, in the vicinity of Ostrołęka),1 because he felt that he belonged
there. He went where he felt the nearness to Heaven and was able to look
from the distance at himself and his hitherto life. However it was not “an
escape to the desert” exclusively for the purpose of contemplation. Jaromski
always willingly participates in exhibitions, carrying his works everywhere,
so that people can see them. Through original paper prints and earth prints2
composed of spacious installations the artist offers a spectator something
morę than pure aesthetic experiences. He shares his metaphysical experiences,
faith, and hope and most of all - joy of life, which he draws from religion as
well as from his own creation. He enriches fine art works with musie, poetry
and prayer; as self-composed C Major tune Blues for God on the harmonica,
also beautiful poems by his friend, poet Marcin Brykczyński, ąuotations
from the Holy Bibie, especially excerpts from First Saint PauPs letter to the
Corinthians about love: “If I have the eloąuence of men or of angels, but
speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbał clashing” (lCo
13:1-2). The artist writes these words in many languages on self madę paper
pats that he distributes during the openings of his exhibitions. He often gives
away paper hearts being the elements of an installation Blues for God.
1 Last year he returned to Warsaw because of his family, nonetheless, he misses Ponikiew,
where he has left his workshop in which he still works from time to time.
2 Paper prints and earth prints are Jaromski’s own invention. The artist produces papers of
a different thickness and consistency, which he sticks together and then he transfers his works
on them using a linoleum-block printing techniąue. They are of a specific texture different
from an ordinary linoleum-block printing. Adding sand, lumps of earth, and even tiny stones
to the paper, makes earth prints.
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