KOBZDEJ ALEKSANDER Struggles with Matter [catalog].

edited by JÓZEF GRABSKI, KRAKOW - WARSAW 2002, published by IRSA,exhibition in the Galleries of the Polish Auction House "Sztuka", Warsaw - "Hotel de Saxe", Cracow - "Larisch Palace", p. 232, dimensions 23.5 x 25.5, hardcover. Light cracking at the top of the spine. Contains 43 reproductions of the artist's works, biography, bibliography, critical articles, memoirs and reviews of exhibitions by Tadeusz Konwicki, Mieczysław Porębski, Piotr Skrzynecki, Jerzy Tchórzewski, among others, as well as statements by ALEXANDER KOBZDEJ and artist's conversations with Zbigniew Herbert and Kira Galczynska, among others. Rubbed ownership stamp.

ALEKSANDER KOBZDEJ painter, architect, stage designer. Professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the Hamburg School of Fine Arts. Winner of the Austrian Herder Prize (1966). Kobzdej's early work belongs to socialist realism ("Pass the brick"). A significant role in shaping the artist's style was played by trips to China and Vietnam, from where he brought back a series of drawings exhibited at the Venice Biennale (1954). In the late 1950s, he began to paint paintings maintained in the trend of allusive abstraction. He became famous for a series of paintings classified as matter painting. The artist differentiated the texture, applied paint in thick layers, in such a way that the painting acquired the characteristics of a relief; with time, he began to introduce such materials as wood, metal, plastic into the composition (series "Cracks", 1960s).