acrylic, canvas, 60 x 81 cm signed, dated and described on the stretcher: D.T. 677 20 000 PLN FIJAŁKOWSKI "AUTOSTRADA XV" 74 r 18 000/5/74; sticker from the factory Bączyk Benedykt
provenance:
- private collection, Warsaw
- purchased directly from the artist
exhibited:
solo exhibitions:
- Pavilion Gallery, 1976; Zapiecek, Warsaw, 1976.
- Gallery 72, Chelm, 1976; Polish Institute in Paris, 1984
- Studio Gallery, Warsaw, 1990
- Zapiecek, Warsaw, 1991
- Willa Gallery, Lodz, 1997
- National Museum in Poznan, 2003
- Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2003
- National Museum in Wroclaw, 2003
- BWA Ostrowiec, 2011
- Stanisław Fijałkowski. A Young Man Plans a Voyage, Green Point Projects, New York, 2017.
- Stanisław Fijałkowski. A Young Man Plans a Voyage, Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, 2017
group exhibitions:
- Experiences, Museum of Art in Lodz, 1974
- In the circle of surrealism, National Museum in Wroclaw, 1975
- Geometry and Metaphor, Budapest Gallery, 1988
reproduced:
- Stanisław Fijałkowski, National Museum in Poznań, 2003, Poznań, p. 159.
- Stanislaw Fijałkowski: A Young Man Plans a Voyage (catalog of solo exhibition at Green Point Projects, New York, May 2017), Lodz, 2017, p. 21.
Note from Stanislaw Fijalkowski's raptuliar:
January 11, 1974 , XV Highway.
I unexpectedly painted Highway XV. At first I wanted to paint another picture. When I drew the first division of the canvas into 4 horizontal stripes with charcoal, I transformed it into a highway. I was fascinated by the possibility of painting a landscape reduced to the limits of an abstract division of the canvas. This time I tried broad brushstrokes, with rather sparse acrylic paint, with laser-like clearances. I am almost entranced by the unexpected form of this naive landscape.
Stanislaw Fijalkowski (November 4, 1922, Zdolbunow - November 4, 2020, Lodz) Studied at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Lodz in the studios of Władysław Strzeminski and Stefan Wegner from 1946 to 1951. From 1947 he was a lecturer and then a professor at his alma mater. He was a member of the Warsaw Club of Young Artists and Scientists. He represented Poland at the São Paulo Biennale in 1969 and the Venice Biennale in 1972. Stanislaw Fijalkowski's works were presented at more than 500 national and international exhibitions. The artist's works are in numerous private and public collections in Poland and abroad, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York, Albertina in Vienna, Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Pushkin Museum in Moscow, McGrew-Hill Collection in New York, Tate Gallery in London or Kunstmuseum in Bochum.
