Signed, dated and described in composition: PASSIONAL SCENE NEW [on upper beam] / FOLLOWING. 2015. by K. B. [on lower beam] and repeated date and signature with inscription on tombstone.
REPRODUCED:
- Kiejstut Bereźnicki. Painting and Drawing, edited by Boguslaw Deptuła, State Art Gallery in Sopot 2015, p. 57.
EXHIBITED:
- State Gallery of Art, Sopot, 2015
- Rev. Dr. Władysław Łęga Museum, Grudziądz, 2015
In the 1970s Kiejstut Bereźnicki began to take up religious, passion themes. The artist, admiring the tradition of Dutch painting of the 17th century, created figurative representations with unified features of the depicted figures, while appropriately modernizing them. The canvases are maintained in a subdued range of colors, as color - the plane he marked - was one of the most important elements of the work for Kiejstut Bereźnicki. The artist's paintings, despite their realistic character, are not literal quotations or illustrations of biblical scenes. One searches in vain for vehemence or emotional uplift in them; their static nature is conducive to contemplation. The painter's friend Pawel Huelle said: "Looking at Bereźnicki's paintings, I see in them an invitation to meditation. Their rhythm, their inner silence, and finally their constant deepening of a few merely but incredibly important motifs of existence, are like a return to the sources."
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