photomontage, gelatin-silver print, 18 x 23.5 cm
artist stamp on back
vintage
The World of Feelings and Imagination series is that part of Rydet's oeuvre in which she enters surrealist form and builds new worlds. These are emotional photomontages that, through visual metaphor, tell about life in all its spectrum. With them, the artist tells of a man endangered from the moment of his birth, his obsessions, his feelings, loneliness, desires, the fear from which only love saves him, the tragedy of passing, the fear of annihilation and destruction.
BIO
Considered one of the most outstanding figures in Polish photography. She dreamed of studying painting, but in accordance with her parents' wishes, she received an education suitable for women of her social class. She did not take up photography professionally until the 1950s. A member of the Gliwice Photographic Society (since 1954), ZPAF (since 1961) and FIAP. She taught photography at the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology. Since her debut in 1954, she developed two independent creative threads: creative and documentary. Selected series: Little Man, Time of Passing, World of Feelings and Imagination, Infinity of Distant Roads, Traces, Sociological Record, Epitaph, Presence, Silesian Suite. She has participated in more than three hundred and fifty exhibitions, and has won many prizes, awards and medals. Her works are in the most important Polish collections, including the National Museum in Wroclaw, the Art Museum in Lodz, the Silesian Museum in Katowice, the Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford.
