Ryszard (Richard) Kiwerski

PARIS OBSERVATORY 
Ceremony to celebrate 350 years of the Paris Observatory
20th June 2017

Video installation by Karina Junk Food

Performance imagined by Olga Kiwerski especially for the 350th anniversary ceremony of the Paris Observatory, jewel of French science.

Ryszard Kiwerski (1930 – 2015) known as the “Sun Painter” is the inventor of Parapainting: abstract compositions inspired by the fleeting effects of the sun’s advances.

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His paintings, like tempographies, are the result of the observation of light. They illustrate the register of changes that occur in it and are the conceptual recording of the passage of time. A tangible sign of the Earth's movement around the Sun.

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Three of his very first paintings are cut out here step by step:

Video deconstruction of the movement that the artist himself sequenced between two hours of the same day.

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Ryszard Kiwerski's common thread: Aesthetics, color, perspective, geometry, astrophysics, narration, astronomy, movement, light, mathematics, space, time.