Dimensions: 58 x 75 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'J. Szajna | "DISAPPEARANCE" | 1994 | 58x75'.
Condition
work included in Virtual Archive of Jozef Szajna, https://jozefszajna.pl/pl/art_works/356 [accessed 27.01.2024].
Exhibited
The World of Jozef Szajna, State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz 1995
100 x TeArt. Freedom of Jozef Szajna, Silesian Museum in Katowice, 2.06.2022-8.01.2023
Literature
The World of Jozef Szajna, exhibition catalog, [ed.] K. Oleksy, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim 1995, p. 83 (ill.)
Andrzej Piątek, Szajna. Home of the Artist's Imagination, WBX Studio, Rzeszów 2022, p. 130 (il.).
100 x TeArt. Freedom of Jozef Szajna, exhibition catalog, [ed.] J. Niedoba, Silesian Museum in Katowice, 2022, pp. 583-584 (ill.)
Biography
Set designer, theater director, painter, graphic artist. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. The beginnings of the artist's painting and graphic works are in the 1950s. Initially fascinated by Informel art, he used the technique of collage, in the 1960s he increasingly moved towards assemblage - he accentuated the texture of the composition, applying fragments of ready-made objects. He also alluded to the tragic experience of war in his paintings of the 1980s and 1990s, in which he referred to both the experience of figurative art and abstract expressionism. He represented Poland at the Venice Biennale (1970 and 1990) and the Sao Paulo Biennale (1979 and 1989), among others.