Marian Bogusz — painter, stage designer, culture animator
‘Bogusz — the artist and the animator’ — monograph Being an extraordinary human and artistic personality, as well as an author and organiser of the majority of pioneering initiatives which played a key...
Marian Bogusz was born in 1920 in Pleszewo, and died in 1980 in Warsaw. An avant-garde painter, stage designer and animator of artistic life. Cofounder of The Club of Young Artists and Scientists (1947), an artistic formation of Group 55 (1955), the Krzywe Koło Gallery (1956, also an exhibition organiser) — all in Warsaw. Organiser of many all-Poland plein-airs and exhibitions, including Koszalin open air in Osieki (1963), Spatial Forms Biennial in Elblag (1965), and Symposium Wroclaw'70.
Marian Bogusz has also contributed to organising Modern Art Exhibitions (Cracow 1948-1949, Warsaw 1957 and 1959) which (the first one in particular) were the landmark events in history of Polish art of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The beginnings of his artistic career fell on late forties lat 40. First of all his lyrical painting compositions come from that time, in which an arrangement of abstractive forms, often treated as planes creates a specific mood deprived of clear rigours. In the 60s he started to be interested in matter painting. Later artistic activity of Bogusz was to a large extent influenced by the avant-garde conceptions of Władysław Strzemiński.
Curators: Bożena Kowalska and Jerzy Szpunt
