Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
signed p.d.: 'Maria Jarema'
State of preservation
expert opinion of Barbara Ilkosz dated July 18, 2016
Origin
DESA Unicum, October 2015
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Hommage à Józef Chrobak - around the memory of the Cracow Group, 9/11 Art Space Foundation, Piekary Gallery, Poznań, November 20 - December 23, 2020
Biography
Studied in 1929-35 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of X. Dunikowski. While still a student, she became associated with the Cracow Group, which brought together avant-garde artists with radical artistic and social views. She participated in exhibitions of the Group and ZZPAP, presenting sculptures at first, and only from 1938 paintings. At the same time, she worked as a stage designer and actress with the "Crico" theater, founded by her brother, Jozef Jarema, and with Adam Polewka's puppet theater. In 1937 she went to Paris for several months of study. In the post-war period, she took an active part in the political and artistic life of the Cracow art community. She exhibited extensively at home and abroad (including at the XXIX Venice Biennale), participated in scenography and sculpture competitions, and collaborated as before with the theater, this time Tadeusz Kantor's "Cricot 2." The 1950s were also the apogee of the development of her painting work. It was then that she created the monotype series Heads, Expressions, Rhythms, Filters and Penetrations. The artist created her own original world of forms endowed with great expressive power enhanced by the composition punishing them to intermingle in moving, changing arrangements.
