oil on canvas, 90,00 x 75,00 cm
Born in 1958 in Działdów, Poland. He was initially fascinated by theoretical mathematics, which he studied, earning a master's degree from the Higher School of Pedagogy in Olsztyn in 1984. During his studies, he discovered that the language of mathematical signs did not allow him to express emotions. In 1983, he began studying at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1988, he received a diploma with honors in the studio of Prof. Rajmund Ziemski. He has been an employee of the academy since 1990. In 2005-2012, he served as vice-dean of the Faculty of Painting. He currently runs his own graduation studio. Ciesniewski is one of the most important Polish contemporary painters with considerable artistic and intellectual achievements. For the first twenty years, the issue of abstraction was at the center of his work, and he explored the possibility of making the meaning and action of paintings independent. In the following years of his work, he returned to figurative painting. He engaged in a dialogue with the tradition of European modern painting, referring to the works of Caravaggio, Giotto, Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Vermeer, among others.
