Tadeusz Gustaw Wiktor
Tadeusz Gustaw Wiktor was born in 1946 in Jelenia Góra. He studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating in 1974 under Adam Marczyński. After graduation he continued his experiments with the language of geometry, while from the early 1980s he began his teaching work, which continues to this day. He has gained recognition primarily as a painter and printmaker. However, an important aspect of his work is also his activity as a critic and art theorist. Reflections on the nature of art pushed him to study the texts of philosophers of the Christian tradition and the Far East, and the treatises of Carl Gustav Jung. These reflections were then reflected in his work, filled with metaphysical content and transcendental references.
He regularly participates in the international “Plein Air of painters using the language of geometry”. The artist realizes himself in painting, drawing, workshop graphics and design. He creates geometric abstractions based on the play of opposites: positive and negative, vertical and horizontal, light and dark. His abstract works have a symbolic dimension: in them the artist conveys thoughts taken from the works of philosophers and the writings of psychologists such as Carl Gustav Jung. In addition to fine arts, Tadeusz Wiktor is also involved in art criticism and theory. He is the author of the “Unified Field Theory of Pan-Picture” inspired by Kazimir Malevich's work “Black Square on White Background.” Tadeusz Wiktor has had 50 solo exhibitions and more than 400 group exhibitions.
As he said:
My thinking with images is a poly-image thinking. When concentrating on a painting, drawing or graphic realization, I do not aim to create a single and definitive vision of that concentration. Rather, I am oriented - open-ended - to show the relationship of multiple images that would portray this vision 'from different sides' and, as such, show its unseen characters. This kind of compositional fulfilment through image, not as a priori, focuses on movement, on dynamics, on process, on change rather than on something final, fixed, unambiguous, definitive.
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