Waclaw Szpakowski - Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

Waclaw Szpakowski - Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

• LocationNew York
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Description

This exhibition is a continuation of implemented in recent years by the Center of Art and Culture in Wroclaw - Cultural Institution of the Government of Lower Silesia efforts to consolidate permanent, extremely important place Waclaw Szpakowski in the history of contemporary art and widening the reception of his work, which situates itself at the crossroads of art and science and the visual arts and music.. The most important of them are primarily released in 2015 monographic bookWaclaw Szpakowski 1883-1973. Rhythmical lines, edited by Mrs. Elzbieta Lubowicz and last year's exhibition of the same title, which was organized in the framework of the visual arts program of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 at the Municipal Museum of Wroclaw. Evidence of the effectiveness of these activities is New York exhibition of the Artist, which is also a first, so extensive an individual presentation of the Szpakowski’s work in the US, as well as prepared by the Center of Art and Culture in Wroclaw further views of exhibition that will take place among Krakow, Budapest, and Riga. 

Wacław Szpakowski

Born in Warsaw in 1883; died in Wrocław in 1973 where he lived since 1945. The author of graphic “rhythmical lines” created in 1900–1951 and a forerunner of geometric abstraction in art. The first exhibition of his works took place in the Museum of Art in Łódź in 1978, already after the artist’s death.

His first monographic exhibition was held in 1992 in Brussels (Atelier 340). Szpakowski’s works were presented at numerous exhibitions of Polish art organized abroad (Presences Polonaises, Centrum Pompidou, Paris 1983; Europa, Europa, Bonn 1994).

Recently they were shown at the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2012/2013) summarizing the pioneering years of abstract art in the world.

Grounding Vision: Waclaw Szpakowski

With works by Guy de Cointet, Hanne Darboven, Trisha Donnelly, Sam Lewitt, Hilary Lloyd, Florian Pumhösl, and R. H. Quaytman

Curated by Masha Chlenova and Anya Komar

Curatorial cooperation: Lukasz Kujawski

Opening: January 18, 2017; 6 p.m.

January 18 — February 19, 2017

88 Eldridge Street

New York, NY 10002

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Waclaw Szpakowski - Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York