Ryszard Winiarski
First and last name
Ryszard Winiarski
Date of birth
1936, Lviv
Date of death
2006, Warsaw
Ryszard Winiarski is a Polish painter, stage designer, author of spatial installations. He studied at the Warsaw University of Technology and at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Aleksander Kobzdej's studio, graduating in 1966. In the following decades, he ran studios and held the position of rector at the same university, becoming professor in 1990. A year earlier, he had created the first paintings of the "Attempts at Visual Representation of Statistical Distributions" series, in which Winiarski used colors characteristic for him today - white and black, painting squares in a random configuration. In 1966, he was awarded at the Artists and Scientists Symposium in Puławy; at that time he made works inspired by calculus of probability. In 1967-77, he worked as a screenwriter, among other things, at the Polish Theater in Warsaw. The artist has had about 50 individual exhibitions and has also participated in group exhibitions, including the Sao Paulo Biennial (1969), and the Nuremberg Biennial of Constructivism (1969 and 1971).
