Wojciech Fangor (1922 Warsaw - 2015 Warsaw), I.S. (Inter-Facial Space) from the series "Inter-Face," 1974

Exhibited
"Wojciech Fangor. 50 Years of Painting", Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, October 1-28, 1990.

Literature
The catalog of the exhibition "Wojciech Fangor. 50 Years of Painting" does not include the drawings shown there. The work is included in the list of works exhibited in the documentation of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, item 60.

Biography
During the occupation he studied privately with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski. He received his diploma from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. For the Youth and Students Festival in Warsaw, he and Henryk Tomaszewski designed an open-air spatial decoration. From then on, the painting works were realized in relation to the space outside the painting - as in the famous "Study of Space" from 1958, preceding the worldwide realization of environments. The painting installations of the 1950s and 1960s, composed of colorful contrasting circles and waves, touched on optical problems and were close to op-art. The culmination of this period was a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1970). He taught at universities in England and the US. His works are in major collections around the world.