Size: 86 x 65 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'S. Fijałkowski 24 IX 89 Las 12/89'
Exhibited
Stanislaw Fijalkowski, Malerei Grafik, Universitätsmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Marburg / Lahn, 1989.
Stanislaw Fijałkowski, Grafik, Xylon - Werkstätten und Museum Schweitzingen, 1989.
Stanisław Fijałkowski, Paintings and Graphics, Polish Cultural Institute, London, 1990.
Stanislaw Fijalkowski, Exhibition of paintings, T Gallery, Lodz, 1991.
Stanislaw Fijalkowski, Galerie Ucher, Cologne, 1995
"Stanislaw Fijalkowski, Road," Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, 1995
"Stanislaw Fijalkowski, Road," Museum of Art in Lodz, MN - Palace Gallery, Gdansk - Oliva, Art Center - Kronika Gallery, Bytom, 1996.
"Stanislaw Fijalkowski - years of study and workshop", Gallery 86, Lodz, 2002
Literature
Stanislaw Fijalkowski. The Road, exhibition catalog, Museum of Art in Lodz, Art Center in Bytom, Kronika Gallery, Lodz, 1996, p. 69, item 3.
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
