Dimensions: 70 x 45 x 25 cm
Origins
Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw
private collection, Warsaw
Literature
Magdalena Więcek. Eye Action, catalog of a solo exhibition, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2016, cat. no. 192, p. 168 (il.).
Magdalena Więcek. Sculpture and Drawings/Sculptures and Drawings, exhibition catalog at Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw 1996, p. 5 (il.).
Biography
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sopot under Marian Wnuk and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma in 1952 in the studio of Franciszek Strynkiewicz. That same year she made her debut with the sculpture Miners. She exhibited in the first half of the 1950s at the Zachęta National Art Exhibitions, in 1955 she took part in the Exhibition of Young Art at the Arsenal. She had her first solo exhibition in 1960 at the Krzywe Koło Gallery in Warsaw. From 1966 to 1982 she worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, and from 1983 to 1984 she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. She also began creative work abroad. In 1986 and the following years, she traveled for several months to New York, where she created numerous drawing series and sculpture projects. She created in Warsaw and Berlin. She died suddenly in December 2008 during a trip to Egypt.
