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Aleksander Kobzdej - "Struggles width Matter"
Krakow, Gallery of the "Art" Polish Auction House, January 10 - February 28, 2003
languages: Polski  / English 
 

A retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Aleksander Kobzdej (1920-1972) - a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, scenery designer, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

A retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Aleksander Kobzdej (1920-1972) - a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, scenery designer, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. At the beginning of his career, Kobzdej created post-Impressionist landscapes and still lifes. In 1947 and 1948 he devoted himself to painting abstract compositions. His "PODAJ CEGLE / PASS ME A BRICK", painted in 1949, was held up as exemplary of Socialist Realism. Six years later the artist abandoned Socialist Realist mannerism and strove to find a new style, one that - once crystallized - would be characterized by an abundance of color effects and a variety of formal solutions. His new works drew on the achievements of the Polish Colorists and were inspired by gesture and matter painting. In the 1960s he created a series of highly emotional paintings marked by a unique use of thick painting substance that transformed them into three-dimensional objects. His series of the time, "IDOLE / IDOLS", and his somewhat later "SZCZELINY / RIFTS", came to symbolize modernity in Polish art. Around 1970 Kobzdej began to compose his paintings from spatial pleats and folds that seem to flee the frame of the canvas and break out of the compositional frame to look like sculptures.

Exhibition opening: January 9, 2003, 6 p.m.

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