FRANCISZKA THEMERSON | LIFELINES | Friday 12th July to Sunday 13th October 2019

EXHIBITION 13.07-13.10.2019 OPENING 12 JULY 2019 6 P.M.

LAZNIA 1 CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART GDANSK, POLAND | 1 JASKOLCZA STREET

CURATOR: PAWEŁ POLIT

The exhibition includes Franciszka Themerson’s paintings and drawings from the 1950s and the 1960s. This was the very period when the form of her paintings, combining figuration and exploration of a painting’s optical space, began to crystallise. Artist’s oil compositions, the narratives of which are drawn from thick texture by means of dynamic line trajectories, are accompanied by works on paper – energetic drawings from the Calligrammes and Traces of Living series. These works make their viewers witness the process of spontaneous shaping of images entailing the changeability of viewpoints and frames of reference.

Collections: The Themerson Estate, The Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, The Archives of Polish Emigration at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library, The National Museum in Gdansk

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D60.16 Excuse me . . . 1960

D60.18A Mutuality resolved 1960

D60.22 In several minds

D60.27 [Traces] And this is another day

D63 40 three figures, a fourth enters

D63.9 They also serve

D63.33 Sphinx

D64.10 Franciszka Themerson woman in two minds, 1964

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D64.26 Franciszka Themerson Claw-arm, 1964

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D65.2 Drawing, Listening Head

GV Art gallery London, Franciszka Themerson, Three figures, a fourth enters games from the series ‘Traces of Living’, c.1963, pen and ink, 25 x 35.5

P54.1 Why is the mind in the head, oil on canvas, 1954

P60 10 Abstract figure, Torun

P60.3 The colour of tomorrow, 1960

P62.10 Existences Impures

P62.20 Unidentified (standing girl)

P63.7, Burden of fruition

P65.2, Palimpsest, 1965

P68.1 New presence

P68.2 Multiple image 1968

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