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Artist Exhibitions:
Individual Exhibitions
1986 - Warsaw - Ochota
Theatre
1990 - Warsaw - Nowe Miasto
Gallery
1991 - Warsaw - Przy Rynku
Gallery
1993 - Wavre, Belgium -
Generale de Banque Gallery
1995 - Washington, DC -
Dianne Beal Contemporary Art
- Aulendorf, Germany - Im
Reithof Gallery
1996 - Washington, DC -
Polish Embassy
- Chicago, IL - 1112 Gallery.
Society for Arts
- Philadelphia, PA - PII ...
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Artist Galleries:
Future One Man Shows in 2002:
April - May 2002, Spartanburg
Art Museum, Spartanburg SC
ph.864-574 3459
October 2002, Hampton III
Gallery, Greenville SC
ph.864-268 2771
Constant Shows:
Hampton III Gallery,
Greenville SC
ph.864-268 2771
Space Living Gallery, Chicago
Il
ph.630-325 3112
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Artist Statement for Janusz Zadurowicz
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Artist Statement
As a child I wanted to be an archeologist. Between the ages of 8 and 14, I lived in an old fort outside of Warsaw. Everywhere in the old fort, I would dig, with a match. History underground. Uniforms, buttons, bones of soldiers, some hundreds of years old. The shards of ceramics were the most precious. I would hold a piece and think. "Was this a canteen for soldiers?" Each inch of dirt held some jewel for me. The fragments became the contents of my private museum. By each, I put signs with dates and stories.
I lost my inheritance, but not my heritage. I walk down the streets of Warsaw. There's a broken wall. Who lived here? What is his story? It is so important that I connect this thing of old with me. The holes of two wars, the layers of paint - my imagination starts. We Europeans carry a big yoke. Warsaw was like Atlanta after the Civil War. It didn't exist. One third of the city was Jewish. Eighty-five percent was destroyed. Events stay in the consciousness of nations for hundreds of years. I seek to create the feeling of things which are lost forever.
Recently, someone in Greenville gave me a coin that was dated 1933! You even use coins from the 1920's. You have these now. For us the magic date is 1945. We keep everything from before the war. The war is like a wall; what lies behind it is a treasure.
One aspect of art is communication between people, not like a newspaper, but more like poetry, an interpretation of fact. It belongs to the soul and expands it. Good painting creates new thoughts. It creates space in the seer. That space is how I try to achieve perspective in my work. I do not paint perspective. Perspective doesn't exist on a two dimensional plane; it is created in the mind of the seer. And that can't be created too quickly. Perspective comes with time. Without time, there is no space. I see everything in painting. I see time.
I create the new by placing layer upon layer. Colors create layers. They grow like a garden. You must give them time. You must be patient with colors. Colors like to exist together. They dare me to put them side by side. Colors are the spices in art. One can get something at a fast food restaurant without spices and think it's good. But then one can get the same meat at a Jewish or French restaurant. There the cook has seasoned the meat with spices. It is wonderful; it is art!
When someone looks at my painting for the first time, he might think, "How strange." If he goes back for a second look, he may see shapes, contrast of color. And again, he might see someone or something behind this art - not me, but all the people and places I have connected with. He might see something that doesn't exist any more. That's perspective. If the seer goes beyond himself then I have achieved my goal. Achieving that goal takes time. There is no need to finish the thought or deed. I can always go back to my painting.
Taken from conversations with Janusz Zadurowicz by Sandra Rupp
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