Painting Is a Joy! 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Stefan Gierowski

EXHIBITION EXTENDED

Stefan Gierowski Foundation has the pleasure of inviting you to the exhibition:
Painting Is a Joy - even priming the canvas is a great celebration!
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Stefan Gierowski

The exhibition will be on view until April 30th, 2026.

• Sky - Line
• Light and Color
• Earth: Divisions
• Concepts
• Beginning and End
• Abstraction

The arrangement of the exhibition is based on the concept of the book developed by Stefan Gierowski himself for the Italian publishing house Skira. The artist proposed an original approach to the catalog portion: it is not based on a chronological overview of the works.

Quote by Stefan Gierowski:
There is no one way to create light in an image. There is no rule, and the light in the picture is either there or it is not. It depends on sensitivity, tenderness, talent, or something else, which makes it possible to combine all the conditions for its appearance and combine it so that it exists.

For me, the long process of discovering that light has a meaning that binds all matters concerning the existence of man and nature became very important at some point. In my imagination, a symbolism of light began to emerge, slowly and cautiously. Light is something extremely interesting and unknown: it has a puzzling nature. Physicists do not know what the nature of light is: sometimes it is made of waves, sometimes particles; the whole of quantum theory, which I became interested in later, is based on light. Light is the building block of the universe. In a simpler perspective, in cultural traditions starting from ancient Egypt, light has a great mystical meaning. It was life-giving, although it was always known that it could kill as well. Light is surrounded by the concepts and meanings I have mentioned, but the light that we deal with in painting is something we do not think about when we paint; it seems to be born by itself... Everything else is actually intellectual pleasure surrounding the concrete.

• concept of the exhibition: Stefan Gierowski
• coordination: Aleksandra Unieżycka
• cooperation: Martyna Modzelewska
• promotion: Lena Pierga
• graphic design: Tomasz Głowacki
• installation: Jakub Antosz
• chairman of the board: Łukasz Dybalski

STEFAN GIEROWSKI FOUNDATION
8/11 Dąbrowskiego Square, 00-055 Warsaw
Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego

• Tuesday-Friday: 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

• Entry: Normal: 15
• Entry: Discounted: 10

All funds raised are used for the Foundation's statutory purposes.

The quote by Stefan Gierowski comes from Zbigniew Taranienko's publication, 'Obszary abstrakcji. Dialogi o malarstwie ze Stefanem Gierowskim' (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw 2010).