Dimensions: 69 x 67 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Szajna 98 from the series "Anthills" | "Comet" acrylic + chalk'.
Biography
Set designer, theater director, painter, graphic artist. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. The beginnings of the artist's painting and graphic art are in the 50's. Initially fascinated by informel art, he used the technique of collage, in the 60's he increasingly moved towards assemblage - he accentuated the texture of the composition, applying fragments of ready-made objects. He also alluded to the tragic experience of war in his paintings of the 1980s and 1990s, in which he referred to both the experience of figurative art and abstract expressionism. He represented Poland at the Venice Biennale (1970 and 1990) and the Sao Paulo Biennale (1979 and 1989), among others.
