Ryszard (Richard) Kiwerski
• Richard Kiwerski was born in 1930 in Poland and passed away in Boulogne-Billancourt on December 20, 2015.
• From 1950 to 1955, he studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin.
• He co-founded and was an active member of the “ZAMEK” group (an avant-garde group that strongly opposed Socialist Realism in Poland). In the 1950s and 1960s, the Zamek group exhibited in several Polish galleries (Bialystok, Krakow, Lublin, Warsaw). In 1957 and 1958, an exhibition took place at "Krzywe Koło" (with a retrospective at the National Museum in 1990).
• In the following years, the artist worked on illustrations, photomontages, and advertising plans for Polish press and television, as well as creating posters for foreign films (FCF).
• In the 1970s, he left Poland and moved to Paris.
• In 1975, he won a gold medal for posters exhibited at the Cannes Festival in France.
• His works have been exhibited multiple times in Paris and across France. They are now part of the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Forney and Arsenal libraries, the Cinémathèque of Paris, as well as private collections and the museums of Wilanów, Łódź, and Poznań.
• In the 2000s, he invented an artistic concept called PARA PAINTING, which illustrates the movements of the sun's rays.
• He later developed ARTOGRAMS, paintings that can be read like anagrams, from left to right and vice versa, in perfect symmetry.
• A resident of Boulogne-Billancourt, he participated in numerous exhibitions organized by the city and was also the driving force behind around forty exhibitions and ephemeral installations in the streets of Paris.
• In 2017, his works were exhibited at the Observatoire de Paris as part of the 350th Anniversary Ceremony, at the Galerie 1831 in the heart of the Carré Rive Gauche in Paris, and in a monumental installation at Saint-Sulpice Church as part of Nuit Blanche.
