Jan Chwałczyk (1924-2018) studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw from 1946 to 1951. In 1950 he married a fellow student, later a prominent minimal art and op art artist, Wanda Golkowska (1925-2013). Jan Chwalczyk's creative attitude and work from his early student years had the character of rational art, an attitude of research through art. The artist was interested in optical phenomena and the environment of their formation. He paid special attention to the relationship of light, color and form constituting a work of art. In addition to drawings, paintings and reliefs, he created structural works called "reproducers of light and shadow." Jan Chwałczyk was also an activist in the visual arts community of Wroclaw. He initiated, together with his wife W. Gołkowska, many artistic actions, including the creation of the "Under the Mona Lisa" gallery, and was also a member of the Wroclaw Group, founded on the initiative of Professor Eugeniusz Geppert in 1961. He was a participant in the most important meetings and symposia of avant-garde art in the People's Republic of Poland, often also initiating these meetings, or playing an important animating role in them. Among other things, he participated in the Koszalin Plein-Air in Osieki in the 1960s, the Golden Grape Symposium in Zielona Gora (1971), and in 1984-2005 in plein-airs for artists using the language of geometry organized by Dr. Bożena Kowalska.
Jan Chwałczyk, This fantastic shadow, object, PVC, acrylic, line, 56x56x28.5 cm, 2009, signed work, very good condition
