Dimensions: 100 x 73 cm
signed, dated and described on the stretcher on the reverse: '1/88 ST. FIJAŁKOWSKI - LXXV Autostrada, 1988'
Origins
private collection, Poznan
private collection, Warsaw
Desa Unicum, 2015
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Stanisław Fijałkowski, National Museum in Poznań, National Museum in Wrocław, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2003.
Literature
Stanisław Fijałkowski, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Włodzimierz Nowaczyk, National Museum in Poznań, Poznań 2003, p. 252, cat. no. 154 (index)
Biography
Studied in 1946-51 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. In the early period of his work he referred to the experience of impressionism, in the late 1950s he experienced a fascination with informel. The transformations that take place in his paintings focus mainly on the gradual departure from a straightforward, overly literal form. He created works that use "object" suggestions and refer, for example, to Christian iconography, cycles of abstract compositions (e.g. "Gorges", "Variations on the Number Four", "Talmudic Studies") or reaching back to the author's own experiences ("Highways"). The artist represented Poland at the Sao Paulo Biennale (1969) and the Venice Biennale (1972). In 1977 he was awarded the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art Criticism Award, and in 1990 he was honored with the prestigious Jan Cybis Award
