Signed and dated on the back: JAN ZIEMski / 1974.
Jan Ziemski was a member of the Lublin art community. With his participation, the local art group "Castle" began to form in 1956. It included artists such as Włodzimierz Borowski, Tytus Dzieduszycki and Ryszard Kiwerski, as well as art critics Jerzy Ludwiński and Hanna Ptaszkowska. A year later, during their third joint exhibition, the artists published the group's assumptions, which can be boiled down to perfecting the art form and conducting intensive research on its development. After years of Stalinism and the reigning doctrine of Socialist Realist painting resulting in absolute isolation from world progress in the visual arts, this manifesto ceases to be a trivial declaration.
The year 1956 is an exceptionally important moment in the individual work of Jan Ziemski. It was then that the artist began work on the "Cosmic Series", with which he turned the art he had been practicing towards an abstract form of artistic expression. Since 1958, he has been working on a series of reliefs "Forms". The artist develops the emerging issue of space or the formation of matter, in the light of analytical sciences - mathematics and physics. In 1965, he was invited to participate in the symposium of the "Golden Grape" in Zielona Gora. During a train trip he took at the time, he observed a snapshot optical phenomenon of two rhythms superimposed on each other. This accidental image eventually shaped the form of reliefs generating movement in space, which today are appreciated by collectors. Bożena Kowalska vividly characterizes the means used and the effect that Jan Ziemski aimed to achieve: "These were already those [...] square pictorial surfaces on which he affixed in flat relief, rhythmically arranged, and arched slats. He then fixed in an analogous rhythm the slats rising in a convex arc above the relief ground. In this way, the two rhythms of the semicircles overlap, with the movement moving past them, producing the phenomenon of a kind of interference, a flight of a non-existent and indefinite form." The resulting effect also fulfilled the idea that Jan Ziemski was working on regarding the problem of "disappearing images." Its, fulfillment was the form presented in 1969 during the IV Symposium of the "Golden Grape" in Zielona Gora.
