Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm
Signed, dated and described on the painter's loom: 'Time for Awakening S. FIJAŁKOWSKI 1969'
on the reverse of stickers from the Museum of Art in Lodz, K.M.P. and K. "Ruch" Warsaw and from Desa
Exhibited
IV Symposium and Exhibition of the Golden Grape, Zielona Gora, 1969.
Stanislaw Fijalkowski exhibition of paintings and prints, Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw, 1970
Painters from Lodz, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, 1971.
Art Exhibition of Contemporary Polish Artists, The Richard Demarco Gallery, Museum of Art in Lodz, Edinburgh Festival Society, Edinburgh, 1972
Stanislaw Fijalkowski - painting, graphics, Salon of Contemporary Art, BWA Lodz, 1973
Modern polsk konst, Malmö Museum, Malmö, 1973
Literature
Stanislaw Fijalkowski - exhibition of paintings and graphics, Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw 1970
Painters from Lodz, exhibition catalog, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough 1971, p. nlb., item 9 (list)
Art Exhibition of Contemporary Polish Artists, The Richard Demarco Gallery, Museum of Art in Lodz, Edinburgh Festival Society, exhibition catalog, Edinburgh 1972
Biography
Studied in 1946-51 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. In the early period of his work he referred to the experience of impressionism, in the late 1950s he experienced a fascination with informel. The transformations that take place in his paintings focus mainly on the gradual departure from a straightforward, overly literal form. He created works that use "object" suggestions and refer, for example, to Christian iconography, cycles of abstract compositions (e.g. "Gorges", "Variations on the Number Four", "Talmudic Studies") or reaching back to the author's own experiences ("Highways"). The artist represented Poland at the Sao Paulo Biennale (1969) and the Venice Biennale (1972). In 1977 he was awarded the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art Criticism Award, and in 1990 he was honored with the prestigious Jan Cybis Award
