Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm
Inscribed on the reverse: '"BABON" 46'
numbered on the reverse on the painter's loom: '947/7 N 16 46'
Exhibited
Jozef Szajna. 50 Years of Creativity, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Oronsko, 4.10-31.08.1997; Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin, 3.03-5.04.1998
Józef Szajna - jubilee exhibition, Artists' House Gallery, Warsaw District of the Association of Polish Artists, Warsaw, 17.12.2002-31.01.2003
Józef Szajna, Delfiny Gallery, Warsaw, 2-29.04.2014
Literature
Józef Szajna. 50 Years of Creativity, exhibition catalog, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Oronsko, Oronsko 1997, cat. no. 37, pp. 59 (il.), 99
Biography
Set designer, theater director, painter, graphic artist. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. The beginnings of the artist's painting and graphic works are in the 1950s. Initially fascinated by Informel art, he used the technique of collage, in the 1960s he increasingly moved towards assemblage - he accentuated the texture of the composition, applying fragments of ready-made objects. He also referred to the tragic experience of war in his paintings of the 1980s and 1990s, in which he referred to both the experience of figurative art and abstract expressionism. He represented Poland at the Venice Biennale (1970 and 1990) and the Sao Paulo Biennale (1979 and 1989), among others.