Jadwiga Maziarska: Assembly

Jadwiga Maziarska was one of the most important voices of the Polish avant-garde. Her explorations in the field of "matter painting" were groundbreaking and far ahead of similar attempts by other local artists as well as contemporaries in other countries. Between 1934-39 she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (with Erna Rosenstein and Tadeusz Kantor). During this period, she was closely associated with the 1st Krakow Group and the Cricot Theatre. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1939. At the same time, she was actively involved in political movements. From the 1940s to the 1990s, Jadwiga Maziarska created appliqués, paintings, collages, wax reliefs, spatial forms and sculptures that were influenced by science, phenomenology, mass photography, printed reproductions and newspaper clippings, from which she developed autonomous structures. This comprehensive monograph introduces the unusual artist and makes her known outside her home country.

Jadwiga Maziarska (1913-2003) studied and lived in Kraków. She was a member of the artist group "Grupa Krakowska" founded by Tadeusz Kantor. She was known as an outsider who focused on her daring and progressive experimentation with different media.

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Foreword - Grazyna Kulczyk
JADWIGA MAZIARSKA: A LIFE IN IMAGES - Barbara Piwowarska
MAZIARSKA'S TRANSPOSITIONS - Masha Chlenova
CLIPPINGS, POSTCARDS, AND SKETCHES - Barbara Piwowarska
JADWIGA MAZIARSKA: ASSEMBLY - Exhibition Views
JADWIGA MAZIARSKA: THE MISSING LINK - Matylda Taszycka
"IF YOU WORK BY YOURSELF": ON JADWIGA MAZIARSKA AFTER THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF AGNES MARTIN AND EVA HESSE - Rhea Anastas
A PARALYZING ENCOUNTER - Andrzej Turowski
ENERGY, MATTER, AND ART: JADWIGA MAZIARSKA IN CONVERSATION WITH ZBIGNIEW TARANIENKO
JADWIGA MAZIARSKA'S LETTERS TO ERNA ROSENSTEIN (SELECTION FROM 1947-1995)
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
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