VIVID [RADICAL] MEMORY

His parents were Polish. He attends Academy of Fine Arts in Łódzż (1946–1950) and Warsaw (1946–1956). Works as a painter and graphic designer until mid ’60s, when he begins his lifelong series of number paintings and drawings, exploring passage of time as a linear phenomenon. His paintings have an aural component, a taped recording of the artist enunciating the count (in Polish). Another painting cycle, Description of the World (1968 onward, inspired by Marco Polo), approaches the same problem from a different angle. – Lives in France. (after Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s, ed. by Philomena Mariani, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1999, 257 [catalogue of the exhibition organized by Luis Camnitzer, Jane Farver, Rachel Weiss]

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Participation in exhibitions abroad in the 1970’s:
Participation in São the Paolo Bienal (1969–1987)
Venice Biennale (1972–1995)
Documenta (Kassel)