This exhibition is out of the ordinary for the promotion of contemporary artists of the gallery, and offers you the opportunity to rediscover a great artist in the history of art in France. We have chosen to highlight in this exhibition the old works of Kijno, rarely exhibited. Indeed, these works with less important production, are often quite unknown to the general public in favor of late works which abound. Showing the pivotal period from 1957 to 1960, of the great career of this artist, allows us to understand the basis of construction of Kijno's works. We find in the paintings of this period, the beginnings of all its abstraction. An abstraction that I would qualify as "semi-figurative forms reminiscent of a jazz orchestra": a double bass, a cello, a trumpet ... in rhythm we will each see our own musician. To this abstraction of general form is added a finer research, as calligraphic, in the form of signs and strong gestures, witnesses of Kijno's fight to bring his work to life on the canvas. Ladislas Kijno, of Polish origin, attended Germaine Richier's studio after World War II. He did not settle in Saint-Germain-en-Laye until the end of the 1950s. Ladislas Kijno has, over the decades, multiplied the spraying of paint and has established himself as one of the masters of the technique. called crumpling. Countless tributes inhabit his creations (Nicolas de Staël, Pablo Neruda, Nelson Mandela, Galileo, Gagarin). His work is populated by his fights engaged alongside the Algerian or Vietnamese peoples, as well as his travels in distant lands: Tahiti, China, Easter Island ...
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