Artist Statement
Most of all, I liked his photographs. He preferred to photograph interiors, without people, only a few simple objects - a flower in a glass, flaking paint on a door frame, or a frayed rug. These objects were, as minor details sometimes happen to be, metaphors of things eternal, they stood for loneliness and the transitory nature of life.
(Hanna Krall)
Process Statement
The Russian work of Zbigniew Kosc, rides the wonderfully thin line between humour and tragedy. From a warm portrait of a babuschka trying to sell her only rooster at the market in St. Petersburg (the rooster is perched atop an empty crate of Nefertiti (!) oranges) to a Bashkir teacher and her school choir waiting half-hopefully on a windy and desolate plain for the arrival of the Russian president, Kosc’s photographs are powerful documents of the places and people he sees, at the time he sees them. (Sam Garrett)
Zbigniew Kosc (Poland, 1951) Ph.D. in social psychology. He was active in research both at the universities of Warsaw and Amsterdam. He absolved secondary studies in photography and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work can be found in private homes and in public collections. www.zbigniewkosc.nl
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