Krzysztof Wodiczko and Foksal Gallery.

[POLISH UNOFFICIAL ART – CONCEPTUALISM – PHOTOGRAPHY] Krzysztof Wodiczko: references.

Warsaw: Galeria Foksal PSP, 1977. Oblong octavo. Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [12] pp. With seven pp. of reproductions. About very good. Item #54254

Early catalog of Krzysztof Wodiczko (b. 1943), a photographer and video artist best known for his large-scale projections onto monuments and public buildings. This was one of several exhibitions installed at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, (est. 1966), one of a handful of galleries that succeeded in showing work with avant-garde and conceptualist leanings throughout the communist era. Indicative of its efforts to promote Polish unofficial art abroad and to maintain international networks, the texts are in Polish and English.

In 1968, Wodiczko graduated with an MFA in Industrial Design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and worked as a designer of optical, mechanical, and audio instruments while exhibiting his work in the unofficial art scene. He emigrated from Poland in 1977, settling in Canada and later the United States, where he taught art and design in a number of Universities including MIT and currently Harvard.

The work titled “References” was composed of three projectors projecting 60 slides of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines onto three stretched canvasses. The preoccupation with "lines" as "theory, object, reality, image" is typical for the work of this period.

As of January 2024, KVK and OCLC show one copy in North America.

Price: €200.00

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