Painter and photographer, teacher, animator of the Polish avant-garde photographic movement. From 1948, member of ZPAP and ZPAF. In 1979-1982, chairman of ZPAF, and from 1973, its honorary member. In 1948, he participated in the Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow. He collaborated with the following galleries: Krzywe Koło, Współczesna, Foksal and Remont in Warsaw, Permafo (co-founder) and Foto-Medium-Art in Wrocław, Labirynt in Lublin, Znak in Białystok. Zbigniew Dłubak co-founded Group 55. In the late 1970s, he became interested in Contextual Art. In 1972, he received the Kościuszko Scholarship in New York. Between 1953 and 1972, editor-in-chief of the Fotografia monthly. Dłubak was one of the most important avant-garde art theoreticians and the inventor of `photographic environments` (Iconospheres, the first one created in 1965). His 1960s and 1970s pictures, dealing with the problem of art language, bear a semblance to conceptual photomedialism (series: Mutants, Gesticulations). Initiator of ground-breaking exhibitions: Subjective Photography (1968) and Experimental Photography (1971).
1985
gelatin silver print, 37 x 26.5 cm,
signature, date and description on the reverse,
edition: 1/1
vintage print
Dłubak devoted the last 20 years of his work to a series of photographic images with elements of painting entitled Asymmetry, from which the lot comes. The artist describes his approach in the following way: "Some of the photographs depict objects I prepared specifically for the series. The surfaces of the different materials arranged in space are dissected by planes and spheres known from optical geometry. (?) The asymmetry in my works is not in their form, but it is a touch of the fundamental axiom of vision." (Zbigniew Dłubak, Photographs from the years 1947-1950, 1983-2000, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2003).
Painter and photographer, teacher, animator of the Polish avant-garde photographic movement. From 1948, member of ZPAP and ZPAF. In 1979-1982, chairman of ZPAF, and from 1973, its honorary member. In 1948, he participated in the Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow. He collaborated with the following galleries: Krzywe Koło, Współczesna, Foksal and Remont in Warsaw, Permafo (co-founder) and Foto-Medium-Art in Wrocław, Labirynt in Lublin, Znak in Białystok. Zbigniew Dłubak co-founded Group 55. In the late 1970s, he became interested in Contextual Art. In 1972, he received the Kościuszko Scholarship in New York. Between 1953 and 1972, editor-in-chief of the Fotografia monthly. Dłubak was one of the most important avant-garde art theoreticians and the inventor of `photographic environments` (Iconospheres, the first one created in 1965). His 1960s and 1970s pictures, dealing with the problem of art language, bear a semblance to conceptual photomedialism (series: Mutants, Gesticulations). Initiator of ground-breaking exhibitions: Subjective Photography (1968) and Experimental Photography (1971).