Dimensions: 112 x 108 cm
signed on the reverse: 'ED MIECZKOWKI'
signed, dated and inscribed on frame: '1964 a333 E MIECZKOWSKI ISO-ROUNDS # 3'
Origins
Lew Allens Gallery, Santa Fe
D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. Gallery, New York
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, 2019
institutional collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Ed Mieczkowski: The Aesthetics of Geometry, Lew Allens Galleries, Santa Fe, 27.02-29.03.2015
Literature
Ed Mieczkowski: The Aesthetics of Geometry, Lew Allens Galleries, Santa Fe, 27.02-29.03.2015
Biography
The artist is counted among the founders of op-art, although he himself never liked the term. His works explored the visual and psychological interactions of colors, shapes and patterns.
He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA in 1957 and from Carnegie Tech in 1959. MFA. He taught at the Faculty Cleveland Institute of Art since 1959 and at Western Reserve University since 1963.
In 1960 Mieczkowski, together with Ernst Benkert and Francis Hewitt, founded the Anonima Group of artists (1960-71). They opposed extreme consumerism and the adaptation of artists and their art to the needs of the viewer. The goal of their work was the precise investigation of scientific phenomena and the psychology of optical perception. Painting activity was also accompanied by writing activity, in the form of proposals, projects and manifestos.
In 1966, the works of Anonima Group artists were exhibited at Warsaw's Foksal Gallery in the exhibition "Black, White and Gray Paintings." The work on display is from this exhibition. Presenting such radical exhibitions in communist Poland, the Foksal Gallery was considered one of the most important venues for avant-garde art in the world.
