Dimensions: 115 x 94.5 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Janusz ORBITOWSKI 1997 | 5/97 | 115 x 95 cm'.
Origin:
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, 2015
private collection, Poland
REMPEX, 2019
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Janusz Orbitowski. Traces," Starmach Gallery, Warsaw, May 1997
Literature
Janusz Orbitowski. Traces, exhibition catalog, Starmach Gallery, Cracow 1997, cat. no. 6, nlb. (ill., list of works)
Jerzy Kalucki, Janusz ORBITOWSKI (Excerpt to the exhibition catalog "Janusz Orbitowski. Traces"), "Dekada Literacka", April 1977, nlb. (il.)
Auction of Contemporary Art, DESA Unicum auction catalog, Warsaw, May 28, 2015, cat. item 13. (il.).
Biography
Graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Since 1968 he has exhibited his works, among others in New York. Most of his paintings are constructed of rhombuses and rectangles. At the end of the 1960s, the artist gave his geometric constructions - three-dimensionality; pasted on surfaces, they form reliefs. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Painting and Graphics in the studio of Adam Marczyński. He received his diploma with honors in 1967. He was a full professor at his alma mater. He had twenty solo exhibitions at home and abroad; participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions representing the geometric abstraction trend. Janusz Orbitowski's main objects of interest are space, light, movement and their mutual relations. Since 1970, relief has been an important means of expression for the painter. Janusz Orbitowski's paintings are in the collections of the National Museum in Cracow, Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw, the Art Museum in Lodz and many private collections in Poland, France, Sweden. Germany and the United States. In 2020, the Starmach Gallery hosted a retrospective exhibition of the artist, which included his most famous white reliefs.
