Wojciech Fangor 1922 - 2015

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Wojciech Fangor was born in 1922 in Warsaw. His artistic education was disrupted by the Second World War, which later on pushed him into practicing socialist realism as a painter. Between 1953 and 1961 he was employed as assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. At the same time, he was also active as a designer of posters using collages, texts, drawings and photography, and became one of the founders of the Polish School of Posters. Although successful in these fields, Fangor decided to shift his attention to spatial experiments. In 1958 he constructed the first “environment” ever made, A Study of Space. These experiments gradually resulted in his abstract illusionist paintings with diffused edges of color and shape. After short stays in Vienna, Paris, Bath, London and Berlin, Fangor moved to the US in 1966, where he participated in important exhibitions such as ‘The Responsive Eye’ at MoMA in 1965, and had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1970. After his retirement as professor of art at the Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, he returned to Poland in 1999. He continued to make art and in 2014 designed murals for the station walls of the Warsaw Underground. He died in 2015 near Warsaw.

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Wojciech Fangor Television Paintings 1977-1984

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Ruimte in kleur: Fangors visuele symfonie

93 jaar oud werd de Poolse kunstenaar Wojciech Fangor. Hoewel zijn oeuvre meerdere decennia en kunststromingen overspant, is hij een (te) nobele onbekende in België. Voldoende redenen voor GNYP Gallery om ons niet alleen kennis te laten maken met zijn werken, maar om het tegelijk in dialoog te laten treden met tijdgenoten als Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol en Sigmar Polke. Een dialoog waar je tijd voor moet nemen om naar te luisteren: in woord en beeld leer je de kunstenaar beter kennen.

Yves Joris

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Wojciech Fangor and his contemporaries 1965 - 1995

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Wojciech Fangor and his contemporaries 1965 - 1995

Wojciech Fangor

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
WYSTAWA / FANGOR, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Znaki w Toruniu, Torun (Poland)
Wojciech Fangor: Television Paintings 1977-1984, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2017
Wojciech Fangor: A Portrait of the Artist, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2015
Color Light Space, Simon de Pury, London (UK)
Wojciech Fangor: Recollection of the Present, National Museum, Wrocław (Poland)

2003
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland)

1994
The Museum of Art, Radom (Poland)

1990
Retrospective Exhibition - 50 years of painting, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (Poland)

1975
Springer Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

1970
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (USA)

1963
Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

1962
Institute of Contemporary Art, Washington DC (USA)

1959
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands)

1958
‘A Study of Space’, The New Culture Salon, Warsaw (Poland)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1994
The National Museum, Warsaw (Poland)

1974
Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (USA)

1968
Venice Biennale of Art, Venice (Italy)

1967
Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)

1965
The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (USA)

1964
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (USA)

1961
15 Polish Painters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (USA)

1959
Polish Painting Now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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