About - Adam Bagiński

As Jacek Gernat once aptly noted:

„The artist's struggle with himself has taken on many different forms since the beginning of Bagiński's career and remains unresolved.”

Adam Bagiński was born in 1940 in Toruń. In the years 1961-1966 he studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, obtaining a diploma in the studio of prof. Stanisław Borysowski.

Since 1967 to the present day he has been associated with Zielona Góra. His work is dominated by oil and watercolour painting. He also creates objects and installations - in 1995 he created them for the 3rd Europa Biennale Niederlausitz - Germany.

He has presented his works at over 40 individual exhibitions and almost 200 group exhibitions in galleries, museums, exhibition halls in Poland and abroad. His works can be found in private collections, museums, cultural institutions in Poland and abroad.

As the artist himself states:

„Painting for me is a form of expression resulting from a psychological need. I recall situations related to experienced places and landscapes. In reference to these memories and experiences, compositions of varying emotional intensity are created.”

As a visual artist, I would like to share my thoughts and present the process of materializing a vision on a plane and in space.

The basic form of my creative activity is oil painting on canvas, watercolors and drawing, as a record of artistic thinking. I paint in the studio, and I am inspired by various situations in the world, e.g. the impact of climate change on the form of nature.

Painting for me is a form of expression resulting from a psychological need. I recall situations related to experienced places and landscapes. In reference to these memories and experiences, compositions of varying emotional intensity are created. For me, landscape is a phenomenon of many forms and states of matter. Depending on my mood, I look for appropriate forms of lines and painting space to achieve an emotional expression of the composition.

I like Japanese art. Landscape - as an individual encounter, an experience caused by contemplating nature, by penetrating its spiritual essence. Landscape - as a source of artistic inspiration. Japanese painters and theorists emphasized that: "landscape art consists in capturing supersensual reality, not in rendering its material appearances. Similarity renders the formal appearance of objects, but neglects their essence".

As in nature, the essence of my work is movement, rhythm, space. Therefore, the power of individual message determines the value of the painting. There is no art without metaphysics. Faith and commitment in the implementation and improvement of one's own style are important. True beauty will be noticed by those who can complete the infinite in spirit. A sensitive recipient is a co-author of the creative process.

Adam Bagiński


Iwona Peryt-Gierasimczuk, PhD in art history, said the following about the author:

Adam. We have known each other for over four decades. I have seen his exhibitions. I have reviewed several of them. It is therefore natural that I follow his further artistic endeavors, in which two fascinations have remained unchanged for years: Joseph Mallord William Turner - a painter of light, dynamics and... mental shortcuts - and the painting of Japan, because - that is how I have figured out - how Bagiński's work is distinguished by a unique combination of traditional techniques and aesthetics with the influences of different eras and cultures. The subtlety of composition, minimalism and richness of symbols as well as a deep connection with nature and spirituality are characteristic of it.

Without a doubt, the words of John Ruskin are worth borrowing to describe his work. He was speaking about Turner's work, but the similarities in perception and understanding should be justified: ...the silence and freedom of the surrounding nature are revealed to him, her magnificence opens up to him. Beauty at last. Found here, amid the lonely valleys! Not among men.

Looking at the paintings, where observation is overshadowed by emotion and the power of imagination, it is not difficult to understand that in the face of the greatness of nature, man appears as a defenseless being, at its mercy. It seems then as if Adam and William had discussed every stroke of the brush many times.