List of products by brand Edward Baran
BIOGRAPHICAL HIGHLIGHTS
1934
Birth of Edward Baran in Lesko, Poland.
1955-1961
Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
1966
Arrives in Paris to join his wife Maria.
1973
The couple settled in Mougins, on the French Riviera.
1978
First papers hollowed out. Exhibition at the Anne Roger gallery in Nice.
1979
The Fond National d'Art Contemporain buys a work from him. Participates in the exhibition Atelier Aujourd'hui, Contemporary works from the collections.
1979-1980
Teaches painting and tapestry at the School of Fine Arts in Angers. They settled in Blaison, on the banks of the Loire.
1980
Participates in the group exhibition Art d'aujourd'hui I, Ordrupgaard museum, Copenhagen. The exhibition presented the new trends of French painting.
1981-82
Exhibition Thread, paper, space at the museums of Aix en Provence and Angers.
1985
Exhibition Edward Baran: 1975-1976 at the National Gallery of Tapestry and Textile Art in Beauvais.
1989-90
Retranscription during several years, in painting on paper of the work of James Joyce "Finnegans Wake".
1997-1998
Series of Stampings.
SOLO SHOWS
2013
Ardoise-mémoire, works on paper, Musée de l'Ardoise, Trélazé
2012
Edward Baran, abbaye de Bouchemaine
2008
Edward Baran, Courant d'air gallery, St Rémy Provence
2007
A contemporary summer, chapel of Plessis Blutière, Charcé-Saint-Ellier-sur-Aubance
2006
Edward Baran, graphic works, Angers, graphic arts cabinet, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Edward Baran, towards wholeness through lightening, Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris
2004
Sanok (Poland), Musée historique. 2005. Edward Baran – François Brunet,
Trélazé, Anciennes Écuries.
GROUP SHOWS
2011
Pologne sur Loire du coq à l'aigle, Centre Culturel Européen, Espace Cosmopolis, Nantes
2010
Ars Polonia, Biennale de Opole - Pologne
2009
Oni Wybrali Parys, Galerie West, Varsovie
2005
Ecce Homo, Fundacja Malarstwa Polskiego, Lesko (Pologne) / Triptyque, Hôtel de Ville d'Angers
1994
Vingt-cinq ans d’art textile, Angers, musée Jean-Lurçat et de la Tapisserie contemporaine.
1991
Jestesmy, Pologne, Varsovie, galerie nationale.
Born in Lesko, Poland, in 1934, Edward Baran entered the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the mid-1950s. He studied in the studio of Artur Nacht-Samborski, where he practiced easel painting strongly influenced by the School of Paris. But it was also a time when textile research was thriving in Poland.
Somewhat by chance, he joined the research workshop on woven structures, where he had a formative experience of "the physical resistance of the material." He went through a phase of rejecting painting—as it had been taught to him in the very specific context of the late 1950s. Upon arriving in Paris in 1966, he discovered the emerging new trends that resonated with him—particularly Support-Surface—and returned to his early investigations.
The weaving he had explored at the Warsaw school offered him an indirect path back to "painting." He paints with woven materials: thread, wool, but also sisal, braided fabric, intertwined rubber… Edward Baran does not paint on the surface; he paints with the surface.
