Jerzy Nowosielski

One of the most fascinating characters on twentieth-century Poland's contemporary cultural scene.

Jerzy Nowosielski (1923-2011) was an outstanding painter, draughtsman, set designer, architect and illustrator, the author of writings on art and a bold and controversial thinker who invoked the theology of the Orthodox Church. His work is proof that, irrespective of the range of media available nowadays, he is still an innovatory figure in the world of painting, where he demonstrated that the surface of a painting continues to be a "field" for conveying a way of seeing the world and an area for communicating with the non-material, metaphysical universe.