Zbigniew Kupczynski, SMALL RELIEF, 1968

73,0 x 35,0cm - sheet metal, mixed technique, fiberboard

Signed p.g.: Kupczyński | 1968.

on the reverse of the binding affixed sheet with the artist's name and the title of the work

♣ to the price bid, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Zbigniew Kupczynski (Vilnius 23 II 1928, lives in Canada) studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, at the Faculty of Painting under professors Eugeniusz Geppert and Stanislaw Dawski. In 1957 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Arts and went to Paris, where he became associated with the Andre Schoeller Gallery, for which he painted 100 paintings. He also traveled to the US, where he had solo exhibitions, including in Florida at the Museum of Modern Art in Florida (1960) and Schram Galery (1961). After returning to Poland, together with Waldemar Smolarek, he organized the so-called "Free Gallery" by hanging paintings on the walls of Warsaw's Barbican. Since 1971, he settled permanently in Canada, often visiting Poland, where he presented his artistic achievements. In 2001 he took part in the so-called "Artbarbakan," referring to earlier open-air exhibitions of contemporary art. One of the last presentations of his works in Warsaw took place in the summer of 2002 at the Historical Museum in the Old Town Square. Initially, he painted portraits of children, showing a seemingly joyful and carefree world, but full of dangers and dramas. He also created a series of abstract paintings and compositions in metal and wood, which he first exhibited at Warsaw's Crocodile Café in 1967. Using these materials, with an exquisite feel for the material, he perfectly brings out the plastic qualities, half-shadows, shimmers, half-matters and refractions.