Dimensions: 33 x 32 cm
signed and described on the reverse: 'MWarzecha | 59/7'
on the reverse an exhibition sticker from The Art Center in LA Jolla
Origin
Felix Landau Gallery, 1960
Landau family collection, until 2013
Denenberg Fine Arts, Inc., 2013
Art 3 Gallery, New York
Institutional collection, Poland (purchased from the above in 2015)
Exhibited
The Art Center in La Jolla (now Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego)
Biography
In 1948 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he studied painting and stage design intermittently. He received his diploma in 1957, and also studied ethnography and art history at Jagiellonian University. In 1957 he reactivated the "Cracow Group ". He participated in the Second Exhibition of Modern Art in Warsaw in 1957 and in the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Puławy in 1966. He was also the initiator of the "Art-Religion-Science" seminar, carried out with the support of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow in 1983-89. The artist's exhibition debut took place in 1956, at the House of Artists in Cracow, in the antecedent of the performance of Witkacy's "Mątwy", which was sponsored by the Cricot 2 Theater. Subsequent individual exhibitions were held in New York's Zabriskie Gallery (1961), Rome's Galleria L'Obelisco (1964), New York's Bonino Gallery (1973), Krakow's Pi Gallery (1974), also Krakow's Pavilion Gallery (1975, 1976), Chelm's Gallery 72 (1977), Krakow's Starmach Gallery (1996, 2002), among others.
