GNYP Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition The Game of Resistance of the Polish artist Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015). This will be the artist’s 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, organised in collaboration with the Fangor Foundation. The exhibition will open on Friday December 12, 5-8 pm.

Fangor created the groundbreaking 1958 work Study of Space. Broadly considered as the first artistic “environment”. This innovation led to the Stedelijk Museum’s 1959 exhibition Color in Space. Fangor’s exploration of spatial relations continued in his borderless, color-pulsing abstract paintings, which were often labeled Optical Abstraction. In 1965, he was invited to join MoMA’s influential traveling exhibition The Responsive Eye, curated by William Steitz. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Svetlik Art Foundation, Prague; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Museum, Warsaw; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, among many others.

While previous exhibitions have focused primarily on Fangor’s abstract works, The Game of Resistance will highlight the artist’s earlier work in the context of post-war Poland. It will concentrate on Fangor’s Socialist Realist works, archival materials, and his growing interest in abstraction following the Polish Thaw. By presenting these paintings we aim to understand his work from a broader perspective of the changing socio-political context during that time.

Artists: Wojciech Fangor