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Jadwiga Maziarska: Assembly

edited by 

Rhea Anastas and Barbara Piwowarska



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Authors

Barbara Piwowarska, Rhea Anastas, Masha Chlenova, Lynne Cooke, Christine Macel, Matylda Taszycka, Andrzej Turowski

Description

Jadwiga Maziarska was one of the most important voices of the Polish avant-garde. Her explorations in the field of “matter painting” were groundbreaking, far ahead of similar attempts by other Polish artists as well as by her international contemporaries. Between 1934 and 1939, she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, alongside Erna Rosenstein and Tadeusz Kantor. During this period, she was closely connected with the First Kraków Group and the Cricot Theater, while also actively engaging in political movements. From the 1940s through the 1990s, Maziarska created appliqués, paintings, collages, wax reliefs, spatial forms, and sculptures. Her work was influenced by science, phenomenology, mass photography, printed reproductions, and newspaper clippings, which she transformed into autonomous structures. This comprehensive monograph introduces this remarkable artist and brings her work to wider recognition beyond her native Poland.

Jadwiga Maziarska (1913–2003) studied and lived in Kraków. She was a member of the artists’ collective Grupa Krakowska, founded by Tadeusz Kantor. Known as an outsider, she dedicated herself to bold and progressive experimentation across a wide range of media.