Jerzy TCHÓRZEWSKI (1928-1999), Cold Light, 1962

acrylic, panel; 80 x 40 cm;
Signed and dated on the reverse: J.Tchórzewski 62 / "COLD LIGHTS". REPRODUCED:

- Suffering of form. Jerzy Tchórzewski. Painting, IRSA Publishing House, Krakow, 2019, p. 316.

Jerzy Tchórzewski originated
He originates from the Cracow
artistic community. His works were
were first presented
right there in 1948. It happened
happened during the First Exhibition of Modern Art
Modern Art, which was quickly
closed as a result of the formation of the
new politics of the late 1940s.
Also participating in the exhibition were Alfred
Lenica, Tadeusz Brzozowski and Kazimierz
Mikulski. The work of all four
painters, although at different stages, are united by their
use of aesthetics similar to French
Surrealism. In the case of the paintings of
Jerzy Tchórzewski, the impression of oneiricity
or lyrical nature of the compositions, also accompanies him
in the subsequent years of his artistic activity.
The poetics of space visualized by means of
abstract, but also energetic - energetic,
clashing forms, plays an important role
in the artist's works. His paintings and artistic attitude
have been compared to demiurgic activities
such as the creation of new life from the inanimate
matter of the painting or the symbolic process of igniting the
element of fire from two dry logs, which are identified
one with the artist the other with the matter of the painting that has just begun
painting that has just begun.
Jerzy Tchórzewski's artistic sensitivity is not
is closed only in a "pictorial" framework. The artist
valued contemporary poetry, maintained relations with the then
literary circles of the time thanks to his friendship with Zbigniew
Herbert and Tadeusz Różewicz. This lively exchange
of thoughts, alertness, sensitivity and emotionality of the author himself
make the painter's canvases also touch on existential
and eschatological aspects.