80.00 x 79.50 cm - offset, paper glued on canvas
Signed in brown crayon on the reverse p.d.: MW [tied monogram] | 64-69/4
Provenance:
Collection of Eva Pape, New York.
Exhibited and reproduced in the catalog:
-16 Contemporary Polish Artists, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut 8 May - 19 June 1977, il. p. nlb.
Marian Warzecha studied in 1948-50 at the Faculty of Painting and in 1952-1956 at the Faculty of Scenography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. At the same time he studied the history of material culture and art history at the Faculty of Humanities at Jagiellonian University. Since 1957 he has been a member of the Cracow Group and participated in many of its group exhibitions. At first he experimented with informel art, "drawing" on a horizontally spread canvas with trickles of freely poured paint. Since the late 1950s, he created geometric collages and reliefs, maintained in uniformly white color. Within the confines of these structures he often introduced handwritten notations, diagrams, drawings, with time also finished objects.
In 1968, with the cooperation of a mathematician, he developed his own artistic system, the result of research he had undertaken into the relationship between art and science. As a result of these inquiries, the first "Metasets" were created in 1970 - series of paintings and drawings, reporting in the hermetic language of mathematical formulas and scientific
