Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
signed and dated in pencil p.d: 'Warzecha 72'
Biography
Began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1948, where he studied painting and stage design intermittently. He received his diploma in 1957 and also studied ethnography and art history at Jagiellonian University. In 1957 he reactivated the "Cracow Group ". He participated in the Second Exhibition of Modern Art in Warsaw in 1957 and in the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Puławy in 1966. He was also the initiator of the "Art-Religion-Science" seminar, carried out with the support of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow in 1983-89. The artist's exhibition debut took place in 1956, at the House of Artists in Cracow, in the antecedent of the performance of Witkacy's "Mątwy", which was sponsored by the Cricot 2 Theater. Subsequent individual exhibitions were held in New York's Zabriskie Gallery (1961), Rome's Galleria L'Obelisco (1964), New York's Bonino Gallery (1973), Krakow's Pi Gallery (1974), also Krakow's Pavilion Gallery (1975, 1976), Chelm's Gallery 72 (1977), Krakow's Starmach Gallery (1996, 2002), among others.
