Dimensions: 132 x 98.5 cm (light frame)
Signed and described in pencil at the bottom: 'LES TRACES RELATIFS DE LA RESEMBLANCES | (HORS DE SOI NI) Izabella Gustowska'.
described on the reverse: 'LES TRACES RELATIFS DE LA RESEMBLANCES | (HORS DE SOI NI) MIXTE - 1985 | IZABELLA GUSTOSKA | POLOGNE | POZNAŃ | ŚLĄSKA 1/1'
Condition
framed
Exhibited
IX British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 23.03-22.06.1986
XI International Print Biennale, Cracow, 1986
"Graphica Atlantica", group exhibition, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik, 8-28.06.1987
"Expressiv. Mitteleuropäische Kunst seit 1960. Central European Art since 1960", group exhibition, Museum moderner
Kunst/Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 30.11.1987-26.01.1988
"Expressiv. Mitteleuropäische Kunst seit 1960. Central European Art since 1960," group exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 18.02-17.04.1988
Biography
In 1972 she graduated - in the studio of Tadeusz Brzozowski - from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. Currently a professor at this university. In 1975-92 she ran the ON Gallery in Poznan, with which she has worked ever since. She creates graphics, painting, installations and video installations, video-performance, objects. She combines her works into cycles, including: Relative Features of Similarity I (1979-90; objects, prints, installations); Dreams (1990-94; installations, video installations, prints); Flowing (1994-97; objects, video-objects and installation); Life is a Story (since 2002; video installation). She has had many solo exhibitions at home and abroad, including in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Sopot, Hannover, Lund, Rennes and Edmonton. The artist has also shown her works in group exhibitions: Sao Paulo Biennale (twice), Vienna, Washington, Dresden, Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York. Her works are in many international collections around the world. She has won numerous awards and prizes.
