Dimensions: 58 x 76 cm
on the reverse an exhibition sticker of the Contemporary Gallery in Warsaw and a sticker with the description of the work
Origin
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jerzy Rosolowicz, Silesian Museum, Wroclaw, December 1965-January 1966
Exhibition of paintings by Jerzy Rosolowicz and sculptures and drawings by Adolf Ryszka, Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw, 10.02-8.03.1966
Jerzy Rosolowicz 1928-1982. retrospective exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 16.12.1994-26.02.1995
Literature
Jerzy Rosołowicz, exhibition catalog, Silesian Museum, Wroclaw 1965, cat. no. 87.
Jerzy Rosolowicz. Painting, Adolf Ryszka. Sculpture, drawing, exhibition catalog, Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw 1966, nlb. (index)
Jerzy Rosolowicz 1928-1982. retrospective exhibition, exhibition catalog, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, ed. Ewa Gorządek, Warsaw 1995, p. 33 (ill.)
Rosolowicz - art naturally shaped, "Życie Warszawy", no. 11, 1995 (il.).
Biography
Studied between 1948 and 1953 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He was one of the leading conceptual artists in Poland. After graduation, he painted metaphorical paintings inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. In late 1957 and early 1958, he began to create paintings that are counted among the most interesting manifestations of matter painting in Poland. In the second half of the 1960s, he invented a device for catching dew, and the Neutrodrome, a 100-meter-high structure in the shape of an inverted cone, which was to be used to disturb the human senses: smell, taste, hearing and balance. At the same time, he began to introduce lenses into his works, first incorporating them into paintings, then placing them in a frame, building regular compositions out of them, in combination with prisms. In 1968 he formulated the theory of the function of form.
