Jan Pamuła

born 1944, Spytkowice

Jan Pamuła

Biography

Born in 1944 in Spytkowicach, near Of Oświęcim. He studied painting and the graphics at the academy of fine arts in Cracow, 1961 -1968, and in Ecole Nationale Superieure Beaux Arts desec. in Paris, 1967. He received a diploma in 1968. At present he is a professor at the academy of fine arts in Cracow. In 1980 he was a grant holder of the French government, in 1982 with grant holder of the Kościuszko Foundation in New York. In 1993 he received the scholarship Fulbright'a and he served the scientific internship as well as gave classes in the Department of the Art in Institute New York of Technology in New York. In 1992 he conducted filling the Connecticut at the University of the State in Storrs. He is a long-term ZPAP member, and a group member for Krakowska ". He obtained a lot of awards, especially for the graphical artistic work. He is planting the painting, the graphics and electronic media. In 2003 - Award for them. of Witold Wojtkiewicz behind an exhibition of paintings "geometric objects - flashback" in Starmach Gallery. In the works of Jan Pamuły seventies were a crucial period, when turned to the geometrical abstraction. His contemporary search was aimed at building the "uniform, universalist vision of reality". That building meant using the role of the case in creating geometrical arrangements in practice. The mathematical statistics based on the probability calculus is using a roll of the dice, action of the computer or tables of accidental numbers here. With basic forms to which he is appealing Pamuła, there are tiny small squares and small rectangles, many times about sublimated colours, put in order and poprzekształcane according to principles of the mathematical statistics. Art Pamuły they compared among others to Mondrian, at least neoplastycyzm of it last came from other theoretical premises. He seems closer to the artist suprematysta Malewicz or exactly Klee Paul.