EXHIBITIONS
2015/03/27
WOJCIECH FANGOR | Spectra Art Space MASTERS
Dedicated to the works by Wojciech Fangor, the exhibition is a continuation of the idea initiated by Spectra Art Space in the Masters cycle. The artist is one of the most significant world classics of the present time and, what is of an even greater value, he still is an active artist. The exhibition will present the latest work created by the master.
The
presentation invokes the issue that is essential for the entire ouvré of Wojciech Fangor, that is
space. The effects of his search
commenced under the influence of Stanisław Zamecznik, a renowned architect and art
theoretician and at the same time the artist’s close friend, are the most
recognisable op-art abstract compositions as well as the experimental Spatial structures, which draw attention
of the critics. A special place in the artist’s work is occupied by two
exceptional works, recalled at the exhibition, the so-called signatures: Zamecznik and Fangor.
The exhibition is complemented with pieces from
the collection of Anna and Jerzy Starak, including the “classical” circles and
waves, electrifying and vibrant with colour, the black and white composition #28
of 1964, which demonstrates the artistry of the technique and fundamentally Leonardo-like sfumato, or a pointillist portrait of Jerzy Kosiński,
from the television paintings cycle.
Wojciech Fangor – born in 1922 in Warsaw. One of the most
prominent Polish artists, a classic of the present day, who exerted a
significant influence on the shape of the Polish and world post-war art. A
painter, graphic designer, sculptor, a co-founder of the Polish School of
Posters, the author of stage sceneries as well as architectural and urban
designs. Hand in hand with Stanisław Zamecznik, a co-author of the first environment installation in Poland (A Study
of Space, 1958). In 1970, as
the only Polish artist at that time, he had an individual exhibition in the Guggenheim
Museum in New York. A fellow at the Institute
for Contemporary Art in Washington D.C. (1962) and Ford Foundation in West Berlin
(1964-65). A lecturer at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire in England,
Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, N.J. in the United States of America
and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Decorated with the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis and the Commander’s
Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
