Moonrise Press will publish a collection of ekhprastic poems inspired by the work of Slawek Wisniewski, especially his Genuine Yves Klein Blue series. Poets are now asked to submit their work by email to maja@moonrisepress.com, with 150-word bio. English and other languages with English translations. Poems up to 48 lines, previously unpublished or with publication details enclosed, will be considered. Haiku, haibun and tanka submissions are welcome. Poets may write about one or more paintings reproduced on this blog. The collection is edited by Maja Trochimczyk.
Payment to poets will be one copy of the published book. A reading will take place in June 2024.
The painting above, in Genuine Yves Klein Blue is entitled a ritroso dal passato... and bears an inscription translated on the back.
Information about the artist is below. The book will be published in paperback and ebook versions.
SLAWEK WISNIEWSKI
Born in 1959 in Poland, Wisniewski is an American artist, living in Southern California, Los Angeles area. He studied medicine in Poland (M.D. Diploma), however was always involved in the creative arts, mostly oil painting on canvas. His first shows date back to the 1980s (Honorata Gallery in Lodz, Poland). He is a member of Zwiazek Artystow Plastykow Rzeczypospolitej-Polska.
Wisniewski successfully showed his art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was affiliated with the gallery ARSG for five years; he is currently represented by Saatchi Art Gallery, saatchiart.com. For several years, he worked with a group of NOHO-artists called EVA.
His paintings in surrealist styles include trompe l'oeil still life imagery. Currently, he works on a series of paintings showing expressions of Los Angeles, using color for its emotional impact in his interpretations of the city. In new works he uses also scribbles, as automatic form , intuitive and emotional ,non-linguistic visual signs to display reference to landscape or semiotic expression of thoughts. There are also some lines of poetry chosen from Rilke. Some of the works are done in genuine Yves Klein Blue/IKB/.
