June 01, 2007 - July 31, 2007
This exhibition of drawings by Wojciech Fangor, one of the most prominent of Polish artists, represents all the periods of his work. The works shown encompass sketches for oil paintings, posters and spatial compositions as well as separate, completed works on paper. The great majority of the works displayed have never been shown before.
Curator of the exhibition: Jerzy Wojciechowski
Arrangement of the exhibition: Piotr Zamecznik
An album to accompany the exhibition has been designed by the artist: "Fangor. Works on paper in colour"; introduction: Stefan Szydłowski; this album, containing 295 colour illustrations, has a hard binding and features sewn-in cards; publisher: The Polish Modern Art Foundation. ISBN: 978-83-91 6987-8-5
Wojciech Fangor was born in 1922 in Warsaw. He made his debut in 1949 in the Young Artists and Scientists Club in Warsaw. At the end of the nineteen-forties and early fifties he was creating paintings in the socialist realism convention. In 1961, he left Poland. He spent the years 1962 - 1964 in Paris. Then in 1964 - 1965, he worked in West Berlin with a grant from the Ford Foundation. From 1966 till 1999 he lived in the United States, where he lectured at among other venues the Farleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J. and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beginning in the nineteen-sixties, he created paintings representing coloured circles and waves with amorphous, vibrating contours in which, on the principle of contrasts and complements, he achieved an impression of motion. In these he generates the effects of afterimages and the flickering of light, bringing colours close to individual, diffracted light waves. In the mid nineteen-seventies, fascinated by the world of mass culture and its concomitant illusions, the artist returned to figurative painting. Since 1999, Wojciech Fangor has lived permanently in Poland.
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Landscape,(4), 1948
Landscape,(4), 1948
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Landscape,(8), 1948
Landscape,(8), 1948
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Standing statue,(9), 1949
Standing statue,(9), 1949
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,(10), 1952
,(10), 1952
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Landscape,(11), 1948
Landscape,(11), 1948
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Sebastian,(12), 1955
Sebastian,(12), 1955
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Greek island,(14), 1954
Greek island,(14), 1954
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Greek island ,(15), 1954
Greek island ,(15), 1954
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Building,(22), 1954
Building,(22), 1954
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Building,(24), 1955
Building,(24), 1955
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Building,(26), 1954
Building,(26), 1954
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Building,(28), 1955
Building,(28), 1955
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Albania,(29), 1954
Albania,(29), 1954
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Sketch for painting,(37), 1957
Sketch for painting,(37), 1957
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Sketch for painting,(39), 1957
Sketch for painting,(39), 1957
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Waves,(43), 1968
Waves,(43), 1968
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Sketch for painting,(50), 1963
Sketch for painting,(50), 1963
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Ellipses,(52), 1966
Ellipses,(52), 1966
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Sketch for painting,(54), 1963
Sketch for painting,(54), 1963
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Sketch for painting,(59), 1963
Sketch for painting,(59), 1963
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Wave,(61), 1963
Wave,(61), 1963
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Sketch for painting,(63), 1963
Sketch for painting,(63), 1963
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Sketch for painting,(64), 1963
Sketch for painting,(64), 1963
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Sketch for painting,(66), 1965
Sketch for painting,(66), 1965
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Two circles,(67), 1963
Two circles,(67), 1963
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Sketch for painting,(69), 1963
Sketch for painting,(69), 1963
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Circles,(71), 1965
Circles,(71), 1965
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Circle,(74), 1963
Circle,(74), 1963
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4 Waves,(79), 1969
4 Waves,(79), 1969
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4 Waves,(80), 1968
4 Waves,(80), 1968
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Sketch for painting,(83), 1958-59
Sketch for painting,(83), 1958-59
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Sketch for painting,(85), 1968
Sketch for painting,(85), 1968
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Circle,(87), 1971
Circle,(87), 1971
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Circle,(88), 1971
Circle,(88), 1971
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Circle,(89), 1971
Circle,(89), 1971
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Circle,(90), 1971
Circle,(90), 1971
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Circle,(92), 1972
Circle,(92), 1972
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Circle,(93), 1971
Circle,(93), 1971
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Circle,(94), 1972
Circle,(94), 1972
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Circle,(100), 1972
Circle,(100), 1972
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Circle,(101), 1970
Circle,(101), 1970
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Circle,(103), 1971
Circle,(103), 1971
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Snop,(104), 1972
Snop,(104), 1972
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Circle,(106), 1972
Circle,(106), 1972
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Waves,(117), 1972
Waves,(117), 1972
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Waves,(165), 1974
Waves,(165), 1974
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Waves,(167), 1975
Waves,(167), 1975
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Between Faces,(181), 1975
Between Faces,(181), 1975
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Between Faces,(212), 1975
Between Faces,(212), 1975
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Between Faces,(215), 1975
Between Faces,(215), 1975
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