Arkadiusz RUCHOMSKI (b. 1978), ENSO I from the series: Open Landscapes, 2019

oil, acrylic, wood; dia. 53 cm;
signed, dated and described on the reverse: A. Ruchomski Arkadiusz Ruchomski 2019 from the series Open Landscapes;

Studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Zielona Gora, Faculty of Painting from 2001 to 2007. He earned his diploma in the Painting Studio of Prof. Stanisław Kortyka.
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.
[source: asp.waw.pl].

Since 2006, Arkadiusz Ruchomski has been creating a series called "Open Landscapes," from which the work Enso I comes. Enso, from the Japanese for "circle," is a Zen practice of creating a circle with a single brushstroke. "Enso I" is a poetic form of the author's open conversation with the perfect form of the circle and the viewer whom he invites to ponder the value of the imperishable, perfect as the shape of the circle.