Janusz Bąkowski (1922-2005), WITHOUT TITLE, 1970s, 20th century

photography/photographic paper pasted on canvas, 25 x 25.7 cm (framed: 30 x 30.5 cm)
on back illegible dedication

EXHIBITED:
- Niefoto-grafie, Mała Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw 1997

In the field of visual arts an autodidact. Multimedia creator, has worked in photography, printmaking, painting and sculpture. Author of video films. In 1944-1945 he was a prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he met and befriended Zbigniew Dlubak. After the war he lived and worked in Warsaw.

Experimenting with image composition, he used mathematical systems. According to strictly accepted rules, he processed a photographic print - dividing it and then assembling a "photographic plane" from its fragments.

He was a member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers and co-founded the ZPAF Small Gallery in Warsaw. He exhibited his works at home and abroad. Among others, he participated in exhibitions of Polish photography at the International Center of Photography in New York (1979) and at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris (1981). Janusz Bąkowski's Old Town studio was also a place for the presentation of his work and artistic meetings.