signed on the reverse, center: Andrzej Gieraga | Nocturne | 20 cm | mixed media | 1999
Provenance
Galleria Arte Struktura, Milan.
The painting has been exhibited, mentioned, and reproduced, among others, in:
– *L’arte costruisce l’Europa*, Galleria Civica Gian Battista Bosio – Palazzo Todeschini, Desenzano del Garda, March 9–30, 2008.
– *L’arte costruisce l’Europa* – Constructivism, Concretism, Cinevisualism, and International Movements for European Unification, Arte Struktura, Desenzano del Garda, 2008, p. 25.
Andrzej Gieraga (born in Śliwniki in 1934, lives in Łódź) – studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź; he received his diploma with honors in 1971. He has been a faculty member at that institution since 1977 and a professor since 1990. Gieraga’s body of work can be divided into two periods, with a turning point around 1990. In the first period, he developed a recognizable style. He complemented a color palette reduced to black and white with contrasting textures (matte and glossy). A defining feature of the second period of Gieraga’s work is a return to color and a departure from organic forms.
