Andrzej Dłużniewski (1939-2012), from the series Iconograms, no. 24, 1974

drawing, ink, paper
signature, title, date, on front
binding: passe-partout, wooden frame, glass
Works from the Iconograms series depict the geometrically decomposed forms of frames of non-existent paintings. The drawings were an example of the analytical realizations undertaken by the artist in the 1970s concerning notions related to art, in various ways he reworked, among other things, the notion of image, which most often did not exist in these works. This was related to the idea of the "absent image" formulated at the time. In the abstract, simplified forms of Iconograms, the artist deformed the rectangular frame - the boundary of the absent image. The concept of these drawings with their "geometric ballet" had a continuation in the work 22 figural paintings (1979) consisting of photographs depicting various configurations of the artist's actions with picture frames.

Works from the Iconograms series reproduced in, among others: Andrzej Dłużniewski. I Am Not Asked About Anything, Profile Foundation, Warsaw 2019; Walking with Andrzej Dłużniewski Toward Art, Museum of Art in Lodz, 2005; The Incorruptible Eye. Accumulator Gallery 1972-1990, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2012; 16 Contemporary Polish Artists, The Aldrich Musueum of Contemporary Art., Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1977; si, "Interventions" symposium, Pawlowice 1975; Art Procedures of the 1970s, Profile Foundation, Warsaw 2016.