Collateral Event of the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
The exhibition of Ryszard Winiarski’s works presents the oeuvre of one of the most interesting personalities of the Polish art of the second half of the 20th century. An artist, engineer, painter, stage designer, teacher, precursor of conceptual art, and the leading representative of indeterminism.
In his diploma thesis of 1966, titled “Event-Information-Image”, he defined a mature and innovative concept of a piece of art based on an attempt at transferring the issues of mathematics, statistics, information technology, and game theory to canvas.
The masterly intellectual game recorded in the square “Areas” built of black and white modules permitted the artist to vary effects and techniques. He created both relief, kinetic, spatial objects and interactive game boards, surprising viewers with an invitation to participate.
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Attempts to visually represent statistical distributions.
Set 232 with drawn horizontal line of division. Mutable lot – dice. | 1975
The Idea
I elevated chance in the painting creation process because I wanted to respect the rules of life.
Ryszard Winiarski
Random factors
Unique artistic methodology
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dice roll 01
12
dice roll 02
39
dice roll 03
76
dice roll 04
102
dice roll 05
153
dice roll 06
225
dice roll 07
296
dice roll 08
364
dice roll 09
485
dice roll 10
683
dice roll 11
999
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