Ireneusz Pierzgalski (1929 Łódź - 2019 Łódź), Blue, 1959.

oil, canvas, 88.5 x 116.5 cm, signed p.d.: 'Pierzgalski 59' and described and signed on the back: 'IRENEUSZ PIERZGALSKI | 1959 - "BLUE" | oil| 88,5 x 116,5 cm | Ireneusz Pierzgalski'.



In 1955 he graduated from the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz. From 1955 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the State Higher School of Film, Theater and Television
in Lodz, and from 1976 to 2003 he worked at his alma mater where he led the Photography Studio at the Graphics Department. In 1990 he was awarded the title of professor.
Associated with the Łódź art community In the 1950s, he cooperated with the "Fifth Circle" group of artists, and later with the "New Line" Group, active since 1959 at the ZLP in Łódź. In the first half of the 1960s, he repeatedly showed his works at the famous "Krzywe Koło" gallery in Warsaw. During this time, he created series of drawings and paintings inspired by Far Eastern calligraphy. He exhibited jointly with Andrzej Łobodziński and Krystyna Zieliński at the Lodz Salon of the Photographic Society, as well as with them and Stanisław Fijałkowski at the Krzysztofory Gallery in Cracow in 1961. In 1965, together with Andrzej Lobodzinski, they built an object with moving elements that produce sounds, called "Clantata." He is the author of the term "Hotel of Art," which, thanks to him, in the 1970s began to be used to describe the idea of independent exhibition activity formulated earlier by Andrzej Paruzel. In the 1970s he created photographic series and multimedia projections/"Readers + armchairs", "Caps". He works in drawing, painting, printmaking and photography, primarily analog, often being the basis for lithography. He has repeatedly experimented with media, creating, among other things, installations. Works in the collections of National Museums in Warsaw, Poznan, Museum of Art in Lodz
as well as in private collections at home and abroad.