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Born in Nysa, Poland. Polish artist, who has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting, and drawing. He is also known as a curator and organizer of art events. Lives in [[Berlin]].
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Artist and organiser '''Ryszard Waśko''' (1947, Nysa, Poland) has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting and drawing. Waśko came to prominence as a conceptual artist in the 1970s. During this time he studied at the Academy of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, and was a member of the [[Film Form Workshop]], an avant-garde collective of painters, filmmakers, critics, poets, philosophers and scientists working on experimental film and multimedia. From 1981, Wasko initiated and organised [[Construction in Process]] in Lodz, a series of exhibitions of artworks created onsite. Artists invited to participate in Construction in Process in turn invite another group of participants, giving the project a dynamic, open character. Construction in Process has taken place in several countries, including Poland, Germany and Israel.
  
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As a child he took painting-classes planning to become a painter and wanting to study at the Art Academy in [[Krakow]]. But instead of making his childhood dream come true, he made up his mind and went to Lodz, where he studied cinematography at the Film School between 1970 and 1975. During that time he became a member of [[Workshop of the Film Form]], one of the most important artistic groups in [[Poland]] in the 70s. Workshop was an avant-garde collective of painters, filmmakers, critics, poets, philosophers and scientists, working with experimental film and multimedia. Later on Ryszard Wasko became a lecturer in the departments of experimental media and photography at the Film School in [[Lodz]].
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In the 1980s, Wasko was awarded a DAAD scholarship in Berlin. He exhibited and lectured widely in Europe. Wasko returned to Poland in 1989 and founded the International Artists' Museum in Lodz. It has since grown into a worldwide network of locally run art centres, bringing together artists and intellectuals from different backgrounds, locations and disciplines. In recent years, the museum has organised and sponsored over 60 major international events, exhibitions, meetings, panels, concerts, readings and projects focusing on art, culture, borders, community and identity. Wasko lives and works in Lodz, Poland. His work has been shown in Europe, the United States, Australia and Israel. Recent solo exhibitions include Nasty Bedtime Stories, Galeria 86, Lodz, 2003, Bedtime Stories, Center for the Arts, Orensanz Foundation, New York, 2002, Herzeliya Gallery, Herzeliya, Israel, 2001, and Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, 2001. [http://web.archive.org/web/20140107004626/http://ryszardwasko.info/ (Source)]
  
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In the 70s he took part in the XII São Paulo Art Biennial, documenta 6, the Third International Festival of Indepdendent Avant-garde Film in London, the Sydney Biennale, the XI Biennale de Paris, the V Biennale of Spatial Forms among others. He also created the Archives of Contemporary Thought (1979), a forum for symposia and art events.
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He lives in [[Berlin]].
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After dealing with experimental film and photography, Wasko started to develop his painting skills again. "Wasko discovered himself as an artist and learned how to cope with everyday life with a greater vision of the world than simply the provincial circumstances of life." He left the Workshop of the Film Form and came to prominence as a conceptual artist. "After studying film-making at the Academy in Lodz in the late sixties, Wasko went on to become one of Poland's leading conceptualists, working as a pioneer in the media of video and photography. Much of this work focused on dense mathematical structures involving sequences of time and reality." His artistic output should be actually seen as a connection of two main fields: photography&film and painting. "(...) the character of Ryszard Wasko's work in general, as well as the character of his individual works, is often defined by inter-generic, inter-media relations. Those works set in motion a whole net of intertextual relations on the level of general structural and ontological determinants, and on the level of different types of perception and rules of interpretation. In other words, in order to grasp a work which belongs to a certain artistic genre in its specificity, one should refer to its non-specific features which are characteristic for another kind of art."
 
  
 
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* http://www.ryszardwasko.info/
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* [http://artistorganizedart.org/ryszardwasko/index.html Website], [http://web.archive.org/web/20140107004626/http://ryszardwasko.info/ (archived version)]
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* [https://www.personsprojects.com/file/uploads/PDF/persons-projects-wasko-portfolio-2021-smaller.pdf Portfolio], 2021
 
* [https://www.forgottenheritage.eu/artists/25/ryszard-wasko Biography and selected works on Forgotten Heritage]
 
* [https://www.forgottenheritage.eu/artists/25/ryszard-wasko Biography and selected works on Forgotten Heritage]
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Wasko
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* [https://culture.pl/en/artist/ryszard-wasko Profile on Culture.pl]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Wasko Wikipedia]
  
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See also: [[Poland#Video_art]]
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* [[Construction in Process]]
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* [[Poland#Video_art]]
  
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Latest revision as of 15:31, 17 April 2024

Artist and organiser Ryszard Waśko (1947, Nysa, Poland) has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting and drawing. Waśko came to prominence as a conceptual artist in the 1970s. During this time he studied at the Academy of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, and was a member of the Film Form Workshop, an avant-garde collective of painters, filmmakers, critics, poets, philosophers and scientists working on experimental film and multimedia. From 1981, Wasko initiated and organised Construction in Process in Lodz, a series of exhibitions of artworks created onsite. Artists invited to participate in Construction in Process in turn invite another group of participants, giving the project a dynamic, open character. Construction in Process has taken place in several countries, including Poland, Germany and Israel.

In the 1980s, Wasko was awarded a DAAD scholarship in Berlin. He exhibited and lectured widely in Europe. Wasko returned to Poland in 1989 and founded the International Artists' Museum in Lodz. It has since grown into a worldwide network of locally run art centres, bringing together artists and intellectuals from different backgrounds, locations and disciplines. In recent years, the museum has organised and sponsored over 60 major international events, exhibitions, meetings, panels, concerts, readings and projects focusing on art, culture, borders, community and identity. Wasko lives and works in Lodz, Poland. His work has been shown in Europe, the United States, Australia and Israel. Recent solo exhibitions include Nasty Bedtime Stories, Galeria 86, Lodz, 2003, Bedtime Stories, Center for the Arts, Orensanz Foundation, New York, 2002, Herzeliya Gallery, Herzeliya, Israel, 2001, and Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, 2001. (Source)

He lives in Berlin.

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