Dimensions: 40.5 x 53.5 cm
signed and described inside the strip on the reverse: 'J. CHWAŁCZYK REPRODUCER OF THE SHADOW'
conservation by the author 1985-90
Origin:
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"40th anniversary of creative work" - Wanda Golkowska and Jan Chwalczyk, Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, 1994.
Jan Chwałczyk "Light - shadow - information", Contemporary Museum in Wrocław, 22.06-30.10.2023
Literature
Wanda Golkowska, Jan Chwałczyk: catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition of the 40th anniversary of his creative work in the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, ed. Wanda Golkowska, Wroclaw 1994, cat. no. 37
Jan Chwałczyk "Light - Shadow - Information", catalog raisonné, ed. by Jolandta Studzińśka, Sylwia Świsłocka-Karwot, Contemporary Museum in Wrocław, Wrocław 2023, cat. no. 623
Biography
Born in 1924 in Krosno on the Wislok River, studied painting at the Wroclaw State Higher School of Fine Arts from 1946-51. In the late 1950s, he co-founded the Form and Color Function Group, and was also a member of the so-called Wroclaw School, whose work was characterized by structural painting. In the 1960s, Chwalczyk became interested in optics and light; hence his "three-dimensional" painting, in which he combines light, color and form.
