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That is how I came to the 
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  1.8.1940 - born in a small village near
Lublin, east Poland, growing up in the countryside during the Second
World War.We were a large family working on the land. There were dramatic contradictions - like, at the age of 7, I saw the concentration camp Majdanek and a wonderful romantic theatre piece, Balladyna - on the same day . Best pupil in the school (but finished it too early at the age of 12). Early hobbies included gardening, electronics, building radios, learning Morse Code, breeding rabbits and pigeons. |
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| 1953 - 57 - attended technical school in Lublin, first living in a monastery, then in rented rooms or corners of rooms. Poverty. I read a huge number of books and watched many films. Meaningful friendships with Korean youths who were refugees from the war. | |
 1957 - graduating at the age of sixteen, I got
a badly paid electrician's job; I had good friends and too much vodka
but couldn't stand it for long and quitted the job. I spent the whole winter as a homeless tramp. It was at this time that I started writing poems.1958 - got extremely well paid job as a radio-technician, earning in one day more than I earned in one month in my first job. Fell in love for the first time and ran away 3 days before the wedding day! I had no permanent address, lived mostly in hotels. I loved books, the theatre and concerts, modern physics and philosophy. Yeah! I was 18 when I first visited an art gallery. |
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 1960 - 66 - as a man of twenty, I wanted to
escape military service - therefore needed to study something - and
chose philosophy at the Warsaw University. There were many artists in my immediate circle. I had poems published in various art magazines, winning prizes for them and also for short-stories. 1964 - Warsaw Nike 1964 - Youth Prize for Poetry XX's Poland Anniversary. |
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1966 - 70 - published:  book of poems - 'Pod okiem zegara' - Iskry, Warsaw 1966 book of poems - 'Nagrobek czlekoksztaltny' - Wydawnictwo Lubelskie 1969 book of poems - 'Dowód na braterstwo' - Czytelnik, Warsaw 1970 I was writing drama and short-stories, happy in love, earning money on radio advertisements and jobbing as a reporter. 1968 - one year long Scholarship name of Tadeusz Borowski. 1969 - Produced my first series of drawings using pen and ink on paper. Started to learn by copying masters. |
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1970 - left Poland, started exhibiting: |
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 1978 - moved to West Berlin where I planned to
stay for a couple of years - on the way to New York... I was one year
long writing a story, prose. Painting on the street, having fantastic
feedback from all kinds of people who were 'normally' not interested in art. Exhibitions, work in acrylic colours - Light Worlds. 1978 - Kunstamt Charlottenburg - West Berlin, one-man show1979 - Galerie Jutta - Düsseldorf - one-man show 1979 - Galerie Wewerka - West Berlin, one-man show 1980 - Polish Institute Berlin GDR, Frankfurt am Oder, Cottbus, Neuebrandenburg, Rostock, all one-man shows 1980 - book of 'Poems and Drawings' published - West Berlin 1980 - Midgard - West Berlin, one-man show 1980 - a year-long break in painting activity - being homeless. |
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| 1981 - based in Kreuzberg (American Sector in Berlin), with a brush in my hand, jobbing in many places and occupations, decided to 'drop out' and have no more exhibitions ! Yes! I revolted against an art-market, finding Berlin quite imperialistic. | |
 1982 - a
year of basic cleansing and decision making... Cleansing - 30 days fasting,
living on water, sunlight and yoga which was better than all the acid
and mescaline trips... Then I met the guru Saint Thakar Singh and was
initiated into the Yoga of Light.Paintings flowed from my brush: series of flowers, born out of despair of having nothing to paint after a break of one year. I was at the peak of my creativity: One-touch paintings, then progressing to huge canvasses Blue of the Mystic and the first series of Spectral paintings. |
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| 1984 - yes, everything
seems to have its own story. One of my jobs was an atlas of man's anatomy. Half a year of studies and drawings ended; having suddenly nothing to do, I enjoyed a new freedom and started to sketch Faces. Drawing lines was quicker than perceiving them. I concentrated solely on the vibes of my subject. It was an obvious consequence of One-touch painting adopted a couple of years earlier. Soon all the walls in my atelier were covered with faces and I heard them speaking. Started to write down poems, to go with the sketches and answer the question: 'who are you?' 1984 - 'Pictures of Creation' on 32 postcards - Plejaden Verlag, West Berlin 1984 1985 - published 'LEUTE in Strichen und Worten' - book of poems and portraits - West Berlin, 1985 1985 - Polenzentrum - West Berlin - one-man show 1986 - my daughter Veronique was born. Exhibiting paintings again: in my atelier, then in many places where I was invited. 1986 - published 'Light Worlds' on 16 postcards - West Berlin 1987 - 'Healing Art', Eenhoorn Gallery - Den Helder - group exhibition 1987 - Markthalle Hamburg - one-man show 1987 - Golden Temple - Hamburg - one-man show 1987 - Schwellenangst Galerie - Hamburg - one-man show 1987 - Naunynritze - West Berlin - one-man show 1987 - Pan Paradise Now - West Berlin - one-man show |
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| A friend of mine, an astrologist, offered to make me an astrological chart as a gift for my coming birthday. I accepted on the condition that there was no mention of the future. She told me wondrous stories about previous incarnations and karmic relations. Usually I forget what I hear, but there was one very interesting detail - she asked me if I knew something about an accident, supposedly happening during the fifth or sixth month of my mother's pregnancy. She told me that I died for a while in my mother's womb - that is to say, before I was born! Only now, could she understand and know the meaning of my paintings - these were remembrances of dying! Well, you can be sure that during the visit to my parents I asked them about this and whether such an accident had occurred. They did not remember anything that evening but 24 hours later my mother started to talk! They went on to discover again what had been forgotten for almost half a century. Yes! there had been an accident when no movement had been felt in her womb for three long days and nights There were no doctors around and no way to travel to town (it was during the first year of the German occupation). Their only recourse: herbal baths and praying. Well, I came back, eventually, for good or bad... Then, with my questions and their remembrances the greatest surprise in their life occurred. Now, for myself, I remember it all well. I mean my last act of dying, before being born. The flight was high, the light was pure - my dying left me with no adverse karmic remnants to deal with... |
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 1988 - living as a single parent with daughter, seen here in the photo with my mother. |
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 As a father, I debuted even later than as a painter, and at the very
beginning everything seemed to be colourful and made of light (worlds)...
My young girlfriend left me on my own, but not really alone, as I was
living with my daughter, she was in the second year of life and needed
care day and night. If you have children you know it's a full-time job! Most tragic - I had to get up so early!But it was possible, I painted a lot that year. Frottage paintings. New and violent approach: squeezing tubes of colours directly onto canvas, smashing them with second canvas, etc. Very little brushwork and then, soon, no brushwork at all. Actually I was not painting at all, just making images out of anything, selfless gene! Small canvasses were used at first, then on paper - until finally there were no more oils. Let's say, this phase was about... flight in the hell of matter. |
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 1988 - Der Magische Aspekt, Kongresshalle, West-Berlin - group show 1988 - Keimzeit, SO 36 - West Berlin - group show 1989 - Kosmos - Amsterdam - one-man show 1989 - 95 - Freie Berliner Kunstausstellungen - West Berlin - group shows 1990 - Zuzug nicht gestattet - Polish Culture - Franz-Mehring-Galerie - group show |
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 1992 - Samaritan Church - Berlin - one-man show 1993 - Interglotz Visionen - Berlin - one-man show 1995 - Galerie Onder Proeysenburgh - Utrecht - one-man show - Retrospective 1996 - Himalaya - Amsterdam - one-man show 1996 - Interglotz Visionen - Berlin - one-man show 1997 - Eeuwige Natuur (Eternal Nature), Leeuwenhorst Congrescentrum, Holland - group show |
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| 1996 - bought a computer on New Year's Eve in order to type my story. Two days later I discovered that there was a painting program on the hard disc. My story is still unfinished. For three years I didn't touch a brush. Learning graphic, layout, sound, 3-D, movie, animation and web programs + learning by doing. The results can be seen in digital works. Yeah! Painting is still going on, these are mostly fields and Spectral's. 1999 - 2001 - creating www.wisarts.com |
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| 2001 - 08 - Photography, 3-D modelling, graphic design for Music CD covers. | |
| 2007 - 09 - wisarts.com update 4.0 - most time-consuming project in my life. | |
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