Janusz Beben

My comments.
I thing that painting it is a collection of coloured, simply and rarely tones, from which I can create the picture of some kind of reality. It seems to me that colour is complete value there. The autonomic all picture, not only the vision of some objects is the main purpose of my painting, the surface of the canvas which is cover with coloure dspotin some special order. The solution of this surface is only a esthetical and, of course, very particular, on the other hand the rights of colour harmony are for me undescribable. I don't want to imitate reality,
I don't want to copy some elements of landscape or still-life, more interesting for me the reisthe situation which surrounds objects, this objects are only the inspirations for my pictures. I concentrate my thoughts on the structure of some object
and I perceive an object as an independent, separate creature. In this way I can study the relation between this object and the space. Sometimes I have to eliminate some components at the sacrifice of composition. Some times I replace some form by another one. But in every situation the colour composes
as variable and light thing. But I like risk, and I always do the best for my pictures, although it seems to be far awa...

1980-1986 - Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Department of Painting. Diploma graduated with honors.
First Prize for The best Diplomas '87 - Zacheta Gallery

Personal exhibitions:
1987 - Galleryof the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow
1992 - Gallery "Inny Swiat" in Cracow
2004 - Gallery "Pod Rajentem" in Cracow

Group exhibitions:
1988 - "Diploma 87" Gallery Zacheta in Warsaw, the first prize in category of painting
1989 - Polish Contemporary Painting - Darmstadt, Germany
1989 - Group Exhibition "Dialog", Nurnberg, Germany
1991 - "Dotyk" Group Exhibition, /iconography from the eighties/TPSP - BWA - Cracow
1991 - Group Exhibition "Grey House" - Pictures and objects, Grey House Cracow
1992 - Group Exhibition "Teachers from the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture, BWA Cracow
1992 - Art Contempora in Polonais - Toulon, France
1993 - Ewa Bajek, Janusz Beben - Exhibition of Paintings, Paris
1994/95 - Group Exhibition "Sensibilite Cracovienne", Languedoc - Roussillon, France
1998 - exhibition of Paintings - Polish Institute, Paris, France
1998 - 180 years of Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Art Palace, Cracow