Jan Chwałczyk (1924-2018), untitled, drawing, collage on paper, 34.5x32 cm, 2005
Artwork information: Jan Chwałczyk (1924-2018), untitled, drawing, collage on paper, 34.5x32 cm, 2005, left bottom 6.VII.2005, signature right bottom, 1990. Drawing of geometric forms, isosceles triangles inscribed repeatedly, in some tangent points pasted colored (blue) dots from adhesive paper. The concept is borrowed from the Renaissance idea of inscribing the human figure in a circle and a circle. In this case, it is dehumanized pure form. Only the dotted accents create a sense of ornamentation, an aestheticizing gesture, although the artist's intention was probably also to build the balance of the composition of pure form. Investment work, very good condition.
Jan Chwałczyk (1924-2018) studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (now the Academy of Fine Arts) from 1946 to 1951. In 1950 he married a fellow student, later a prominent minimal art and op art artist, Wanda Golkowska (1925-2013). Jan Chwalczyk's creative attitude and work from his early student years had the character of rational art, an attitude of research through art. The artist was interested in optical phenomena and the environment of their formation. He paid special attention to the relationship of light, color and form constituting a work of art. In addition to drawings, paintings and reliefs, he created structural works called "reproducers of light and shadow." Jan Chwałczyk was also an activist in the visual arts community of Wroclaw. He initiated, together with his wife W. Gołkowska, many artistic actions, including the creation of the "Under the Mona Lisa" gallery, and was also a member of the Wroclaw Group, founded on the initiative of Professor Eugeniusz Geppert in 1961. He was a participant in the most important meetings and symposia of avant-garde art in the People's Republic of Poland, often also initiating these meetings or playing an important role as an animator in them. Among other things, he participated in the Koszalin Plein-Air in Osieki in the 1960s, the Golden Grape Symposium in Zielona Gora (1971) and the 1984-2005 Plein-Air for Artists Using the Language of Geometry, organized by Dr. Bożena Kowalska.
