Stanislaw Fijalkowski
Skira (Publisher)
Published on 27. March 2025
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-88-572-5311-4 (ISBN)
Description
A complete monograph devoted to the Polish master of abstract painting, whose compositions play with minimalist forms and colour
Stanisław Fijałkowski (1922-2020) boasts a direct connection to the very origins of the European avant-garde - he was an assistant of Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who in turn had studied under Kazimir Malevich.
Throughout six decades Fijałkowski maintained a solely unique idiom of mystical painting, hovering between the abstract and the representational. He also explored the subject theoretically and translated into Polish several important texts, including Wassily Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art.
Fijałkowski was also an accomplished engraver, with prints in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Britain. Even when simplified to black and white his compositions still manage to convey an aura of meditative mystery. The artist had significant international presence in his lifetime - he represented Poland at the São Paulo and Venice biennales, lectured in Belgium and Germany, served as Vice-President of the International Society of Wood Engravers XYLON in Winterthur, Switzerland.
This comprehensive monograph is a rare opportunity for the international audience to rediscover an artistic vision of such scope and magnitude. "Longevity allows Fijałkowski to trump the logic of 'isms'," as critic Mark Sadler pointed out in his Frieze review of a 2016 exhibition.
Stanisław Fijałkowski (1922-2020) boasts a direct connection to the very origins of the European avant-garde - he was an assistant of Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who in turn had studied under Kazimir Malevich.
Throughout six decades Fijałkowski maintained a solely unique idiom of mystical painting, hovering between the abstract and the representational. He also explored the subject theoretically and translated into Polish several important texts, including Wassily Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art.
Fijałkowski was also an accomplished engraver, with prints in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Britain. Even when simplified to black and white his compositions still manage to convey an aura of meditative mystery. The artist had significant international presence in his lifetime - he represented Poland at the São Paulo and Venice biennales, lectured in Belgium and Germany, served as Vice-President of the International Society of Wood Engravers XYLON in Winterthur, Switzerland.
This comprehensive monograph is a rare opportunity for the international audience to rediscover an artistic vision of such scope and magnitude. "Longevity allows Fijałkowski to trump the logic of 'isms'," as critic Mark Sadler pointed out in his Frieze review of a 2016 exhibition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milan
Italy
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
120 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 241 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1438 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-572-5311-4 (9788857253114)
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Christina Lodder, honorary fellow in the History of Art at the University of York and president of the Malevich Society, has published extensively on Russian art of the early twentieth century. She has contributed enormously to western understanding of the development of Russian modernism.
Marta Smolinska is a Polish art historian and critic, exhibition curator, university lecturer, full professor. She has worked as assistant professor of history of modern art at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Since 2014 she has been a professor of history of contemporary art and curatorial studies at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznan.
Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, an enthusiast, word processor, educator, and (co)dependent curator often engaged in artist-oriented projects or occupying the secondary information surrounding cultural production.
Marta Smolinska is a Polish art historian and critic, exhibition curator, university lecturer, full professor. She has worked as assistant professor of history of modern art at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Since 2014 she has been a professor of history of contemporary art and curatorial studies at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznan.
Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, an enthusiast, word processor, educator, and (co)dependent curator often engaged in artist-oriented projects or occupying the secondary information surrounding cultural production.