[POLISH NEO-AVANT-GARDE AND CONCEPTUALISM] Zbigniew Dłubak: malarstwo: październik 1966 [Zbigniew Dłubak: painting: October 1966].
[Warsaw]: P.P. Pracownie Sztuk Plastycznych, [1966]. Oblong quarto (25 × 25.5 cm). Original embossed card folder, housing a color reproduction of a painting measuring 122 × 100 cm, folded five times, with text and six black-and-white painting reproductions printed to recto. Very light trace of moisture to contents and rear portion of folder; else about very good. Item #54038
A memento of one of the first exhibitions of Galeria Foksal, this catalog advertises a painting exhibition of the neo-avant-garde artist Zbigniew Dłubak (1921–2005). Founded in April 1966 as a space for contemporary art, the gallery showcased avant-garde art, including action art and happenings by artists of international repute, in spite of limitations of the communist regime. The advertising brochures for Foksal exhibitions, which doubled as catalogs, were usually designed by the exhibiting artists themselves, as in the case of this publication, designed by Dłubak who was also on the programming committee of the new gallery. An autodidact, Dłubak was one of the founders of the Grupa 55 in Warsaw, later co-founding the Permafo group (1970–1981) and the eponymous magazine (with artists Natalia LL, Andrzej Lachowicz, and the art critic Antoni Dzieduszycki). In 1953–1972 he was also the editor-in-chief of the journal “Fotografia”. In his artistic career Dłubak worked in painting, photography, sculpture, as well as writing critical and theoretical texts. One of the founders of Foksal Gallery, Hanna Ptaszkowska, characterised Dłubak’s work in this exhibition as that of “a painter who has no use for painting.”
As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC show copies only at Stedelijk and Bibliothèque Kandinsky.
Price: €450.00