Arkadiusz RUCHOMSKI (1978), Enso II; 2020

Oil, acrylic, wood; diameter 103 cm
Signed, dated, described on the back: ARuchomski /ARKADIUSZ/RUCHOMSKI/ENSO II, 2020
Work exhibited: Arkadiusz Ruchomski "Between". - Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan; Arkadiusz Ruchomski "Fullness" Mazovian Institute of Culture.

From 2001 to 2007 he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Zielona Gora, Faculty of Painting. He defended his diploma in the Painting Studio of Prof. Stanisław Kortyka. In December 2017, he closed his doctoral dissertation entitled. "Shelters" at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He collaborates with Dr. Zdzislaw Ludwiniak and Dr. Anna Klonowska. Since 2008 he has been an assistant at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the Studio of Prof. Hubert Borys. In 2005, he won the Grand Prix in the "2004 Picture of the Year" competition. He also participated in the Triennale of Polish Contemporary Painting at the BWA in Rzeszow, the Triennale of Painting at the Municipal Art Gallery in Czestochowa in 2007, and the International Biennale of Painting and Textile in Gdynia in 2011. In 2013, he won third place in the International Competition, "Contemporary Landscape" in Czestochowa. Between 2005 and 2015, he participated in many solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.


Since 2006, Arkadiusz Ruchomski has been creating a series called "Open Landscapes," from which the work Enso II comes. Enso, from the Japanese for "circle," is the Zen practice of creating a circle with a single brushstroke. "Enso II" is a poetic form of the author's open conversation with the ideal form of the circle and the viewer, whom he invites to consider the value of the imperishable, perfect as the shape of the circle, into which the artist inscribes landscapes painted and created with the structure of the materials selected, which are not obvious in their structure.