-Member of the artistic group Grupa Krakowska -Unusual material painting -Interdisciplinary experimentalism

This monograph is a comprehensive tribute to the Polish artist Jadwiga Maziarska (1913-2003), featuring essays by renowned art historians and curators, and a selection of archival materials from 1940s1990s. Maziarska was one of the most important voices of the avant-garde in Poland, alongside recently recognized Erna Rosenstein, her closest friend and interlocutor. The title assembly speaks to Maziarska as engineer and bricoleur of source materials and methods, producing an abstraction which is uncategorizable within the postwar Krakow ** Group (Grupa Krakowska II) and beyond. Her artistic processes were rooted in the physicality of assembling as a response to concepts of reproduction and modernity. Active from the 1940s through to the 1990s, Maziarska was informed by science, phenomenology, mass photography, printed reproductions and newspapers clippings, out of which she developed autonomous structures.

Jadwiga Maziarska (1913-2003) studied and lived in Kraków. ** She was a member of the second Kraków Group (Grupa Krakowska II), co-established by Tadeusz Kantor. She was known as an outsider, focused on her daring and progressive experimentation with various media.

Interdisciplinary experimentalism

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Jadwiga Maziarska was one of the most important voices of the Polish avant-garde. Her explorations in the field of "matter painting" were groundbreaking and far ahead of similar attempts by other local artists as well as contemporaries in other countries. Between 1934-39 she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (with Erna Rosenstein and Tadeusz Kantor). During this period, she was closely associated with the 1st Krakow Group and the Cricot Theatre. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1939. At the same time, she was actively involved in political movements. From the 1940s to the 1990s, Jadwiga Maziarska created appliqués, paintings, collages, wax reliefs, spatial forms and sculptures that were influenced by science, phenomenology, mass photography, printed reproductions and newspaper clippings, from which she developed autonomous structures. This comprehensive monograph introduces the unusual artist and makes her known outside her home country.

Jadwiga Maziarska (1913-2003) studied and lived in Kraków. She was a member of the artist group "Grupa Krakowska" founded by Tadeusz Kantor. She was known as an outsider who focused on her daring and progressive experimentation with different media.

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Cover Titlepage Contents Foreword - Grazyna Kulczyk JADWIGA MAZIARSKA: A LIFE IN IMAGES - Barbara Piwowarska MAZIARSKA'S TRANSPOSITIONS - Masha Chlenova CLIPPINGS, POSTCARDS, AND SKETCHES - Barbara Piwowarska JADWIGA MAZIARSKA: ASSEMBLY - Exhibition Views JADWIGA MAZIARSKA: THE MISSING LINK - Matylda Taszycka IF YOU WORK BY YOURSELF: ON JADWIGA MAZIARSKA AFTER THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF AGNES MARTIN AND EVA HESSE - Rhea Anastas A PARALYZING ENCOUNTER - Andrzej Turowski ENERGY, MATTER, AND ART: JADWIGA MAZIARSKA IN CONVERSATION WITH ZBIGNIEW TARANIENKO JADWIGA MAZIARSKA'S LETTERS TO ERNA ROSENSTEIN (SELECTION FROM 19471995) AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Imprint Back Cover