Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FANGOR | #30 1963'
Condition
Reviews: the work was included in the catalog raisonné edited by Katarzyna Jankowska-Cieślik under the number P.352
Origins
Polswiss Art, 2016
private collection, Poland
Desa Unicum, 2021
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Fangor, solo exhibition, Galerie Lambert, Paris 5-29.02.1964
Fangor, solo exhibition, Staedlisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 12.06-19.07.1964
Fangor, solo exhibition, Galerie Springer, Berlin, 1-30.10.1965
Literature
Fangor, exhibition catalog, Galerie Springer, Berlin 1965, cat. no. 6 (as 'No. 30'), p. nlb.
Stefan Szydłowski, Wojciech Fangor. Space as a Game, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 2012, p. 121 (il.).
Wojciech Fangor. Color and Space, [ed.] Magdalena Dabrowski, Milano 2018, cat. no. 66, pp. 78 (ill.), 217
Biography
During the occupation, he studied privately with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski. He received his diploma from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. For the Youth and Students Festival in Warsaw, he designed an open-air spatial decoration together with Henryk Tomaszewski. From then on, the painting works were realized in relation to the space outside the painting - as in the famous "Study of Space" from 1958, preceding the worldwide realization of environments. The painting installations of the 1950s and 1960s, composed of colorful contrasting circles and waves, touched on optical problems and were close to op-art. The culmination of this period was a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1970). He taught at universities in England and the US. His works are in major collections around the world.