Zbigniew Gostomski
Zbigniew Gostomski (born November 14, 1932 in Bydgoszcz ; † July 24, 2017 in Otwock ) was a Polish painter, actor and photographer.
Gostomski studied from 1953 to 1959 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Michał Bylina and taught there after graduating at the Faculty of Painting. He was also one of the founders of Warsaw's Galeria Foksal . The most important means of expression for him was painting, especially themes of structure and composition. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, he began creating Op Art compositions and reliefs, which he called Optical Objects . He mainly worked on the possibility of turning the image into a relief, and later he dealt with the question of illusion and space in three-dimensional objects.
In 1970 he was awarded the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Prize . He also turned to conceptual art in the 1970s , and since 1980 symbolic objects and their meanings began to play a large role in his works. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Poland and around the world, such as the Kraków Galeria Starmach , the Foksal Gallery , the Galeria Stara in Lublin, as well as in Paris, Edinburgh and Berlin.
In addition, Gostomski has performed at Tadeusz Kantors Theater Cricot 2 since 1971 . and worked in Andrzej Wajda's documentary Umarla klasa (1977) and in several television films by Kantors .
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SURNAME | Gostomski, Zbigniew |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter, actor and photographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bydgoszcz |
DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 2017 |
Place of death | Otwock |