Janusz Kirenko
Icons 2014
Prof. Janusz Kirenko, PhD was born in Lublin. He graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, where in 2009, he received was promoted to professor. In 2008, he was honoured with the prestigious title of the “Founder of Polish Rehabilitation” awarded by the Chapter of the Polish Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of rehabilitation. In 2010, he received the Silver and Gold Cross of Merit for his pro-social activity. Apart from scientific, educational and social endeavours, he is also an avid painter. Prof. Kirenko has contributed to a number of solo and collective exhibitions, both in Poland and abroad. In 2007, he also published his first collection of haiku poems entitled “Unfathomable torment of dreams”, and in subsequent years: “In My Touchiness” (2008), “Some Portraits, Reflections, Impressions”(2009), and “Landscape. In Search of Harmony” (2012). The titles of his collections of poems are often also featured in his painting exhibitions, and some of his paintings bear inscriptions quoting lines from his haikus.
Other galleries of the author
Ikony
The icon from 2014 and Janusz Kirenko’s second exhibition at Galeria Art Brut is no longer intended as a faithful copy from Ushakov. Although the proportions and general layout of the 1991 painting are maintained, the author includes elements inspired by his own experiences and his earlier peregrinations of colour combinations. The Virgin Mary and Christ are presented against the background of permeating, fiery orange and yellow. The colours create the impression of smoke, whirlwind, wisps of scattered clouds. Our Lady’s dress is very simple, devoid of detail, claret-coloured with lighter areas emulating creasing. Christ’s robe is similarly simplified, kept mainly in reds and yellows, with subtly hinted wrinkles. In this icon, the plate-shaped halos overlap by approximately 1/3: larger around Virgin Mary’s and smaller around Christ’s head. The only marking on the icon is the authors signature in the bottom right corner.