Constructivist Art

I was recently told that these were used in an architectural installation in a bank in Puglia, Italy. This is signed Gerzso and dated. But I do not have any other provenance on the attribution. This piece is cast in some sort of stone, fiberglass, or grainy resin material and then silvered with metallic paint. it is signed and dated. Gunther Gerzso...

Artist: Gunter Fruhtrunk, German (1923 - 1982) Title: Untitled 2 Year: 1971 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 63/125 Size: 24.5 x 25.5 in. (62.23 x 64.7...

Note: This is a wall sculpture (construction). It was exhibited at Graham-Shay Gallery in 1984 and appears in the exhibition catalogue (image attached). Seymour Fogel was an American artist whose artistic output included social realist art early in the century, abstract art and expressionist art at mid-century, and transcendental art...

Roman Cieślewicz (born 1930 13 January in Lwów Poland now Lviv Ukraine - died 1996 21 January in Paris, France) was a Polish (naturalized French) graphic artist and photographer. From 1943 to 1946 he attended the School of Artistic Industry in Lvov and from 1947 to 1949 attended the Krakow's Fine Arts Lycee. He studied at Kraków Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1955. He was artistic editor of "Ty i Ja" monthly (Warsaw) 1959-1962. In 1963 he moved to France and naturalized in 1971. He worked as art director of Vogue, Elle (1965-1969) and Mafia - advertising agency (1969-1972) and was artistic creator of Opus International (1967-1969), Kitsch (1970-1971) and Cnac-archives (1971-1974). Taught at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques (ESAG) in Paris. In 1976 he produced his "review of panic information" - "Kamikaze"/No. 1/ published by Christian Bourgois. Folon. In 1991 he produced "Kamikaze 2" with Agnes B. He took part in numerous group exhibitions of graphic, poster and photographic art and was a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). He designed a famous 1960s Polish Cyrk Circus Dog Poster as well as a Pop art superman cover for Opus magazine and a Charlie Chaplin poster for a Polish film festival. Major awards 1964 - Grand Prix, International Exhibition of Film Posters in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 1964 - Gold Medal, 1st Biennial of Industrial Forms in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia) 1972 - Gold Medal, 4th International Biennial of Posters in Warsaw (Poland) 1979 - Grand Prix for posters in Paris (France) 1984 - Bronze Medal, International Biennial of Posters 1990 - Grand Prix of "Art Graphique" (France) 1991 - Excellence Prize at Biennial of Graphic in Zagreb (Yugoslavia) 1992 - President Price, Biennial of Applied Graphic in Brno (Slovakia) 1993 – Second prize, Poster Biennale Lahti (Finland) He was included in the MoMA NY show of Polish posters (along with Jerzy Czerniawski, Wiktor Gorka, Mieczyslaw Gorowski, Jan Lenica, Jan Mlodozeniec, Andrzej Pagowski, Jan Sawka...

The inspiration for Jean-Pierre Maury's work is the alchemical symbolism. The esotericism of his work is consistent with the research of the Surrealists' on the way to Point Supreme "essential idea from the Hermetic tradition. Jean-Pierre Maury was born in Belgium in 1948. He lived and worked in Belgium and in France. From 1968 he engaged himself in the development of the movement called constructivism. Since the beginning of the century, the Constructivist movement has affirmed itself as a new concrete art movement undisputably historic but remaining undeniably contemporary. Having early on affirmed his desire to paint, Jean-Pierre Maury worked from 1968 to 1978 on six vast series of commissioned works devoted to language, in his post 1978 works his paintings are created from a minimal plastic art element : the crossing of two lines. very similar to the Latin American (Venezuelan Op Art Cruz Diez and Jesus Soto) Kinetic art of this period. Furthermore, added to the rigour and demands of the theoretical and practical work of a composition, Maury’s research on colours consists of pure and intuitive sensitivity, thus adding to the perfect forms (always present in his compositions) the willingness to integrate new components thus contributing not only to the consistency of his works but also to an expected renewal. He attempted to set the scene showing the fulfilment of man, his aptitude to reflect as well as the capacity to experience. His works are a demonstration of what perfect form engenders, adding to this a complementary order of reality. This added realism, a quasi subversion of the principal of minimal and apparently closed composition, is not without humour, an added value which also transgresses the seemingly trivial or the tragic to become bearable. As well as numerous collective and personal exhibitions of his works, Jean-Pierre Maury is co-founder and co-editor of the magasine "Measures International Art". He is author of several architectural integrations. Finally he is organiser of events, organises conferences and publishes theoretical texts in Belgium as well as abroad. Jean-Pierre Maury is influenced by "concrete art," but his compositions methodically have become dynamic and poetic. In recent years, he has found new ways of creating "op art" Solo shows: 2016 Jean-Pierre Maury - Les Bains-Douches, Alençon 2013 Jean-Pierre Maury - Galerie Détour, Namur 2007 Jean-Pierre Maury - Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2000 Jean-Pierre Maury - Galerie 1900-2000, Paris Group shows 23 2015 L’abstraction géométrique belge - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux 2013 40ème anniversaire - Galerie Détour, Namur 2012 Concrete: The Small Format - Galerie St. Johann - 19507, Saarbrücken 2009 Arbeiten auf Papier – konkret. 40 Jahre Galerie St. Johann - Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2008 Jubiläumsausstellung: 20 Jahre Galerie Suciu - Galerie Emilia Suciu - konstruktiv-konkrete Kunst, Ettlingen gegenstandslos - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn New Walls from Europe - Sundaram Tagore Gallery - New York, New York City, NY Abstraits Construits. Collection Du Centre De La Gravure Et De L'image Imprimée À La Louvière - Maison de la Culture Namur, Namur 2007 Frisch gestrichen – peinture fraîche - Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2005 Kleinformate von 52 europäischen Künstlern - Galerie Emilia Suciu - konstruktiv-konkrete Kunst, Ettlingen 2002 Jean-Pierre Maury - Bilder / Daniel de Spirt - skulpturen - Galerie Emilia Suciu - konstruktiv-konkrete Kunst, Ettlingen 2000 Une Ville-Une Collection - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée de la, La Louvière 1999 Constructive Art in Europe at the Threshold of the third Millennium - Galerie Emilia Suciu - konstruktiv-konkrete Kunst, Ettlingen ConstructiveArtinEuropeatthe ThresholdofthethirdMillennium - Galerie Hors Lieux, Strasbourg 1997 concrete kunst - Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, Knokke-Heist 1996 Jeder Meter für die Kunst - Jenny-Marx-Haus - Museen des Altmarkkreises Salzwedel, Salzwedel Jeder Meter für die Kunst - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok 1995 Jeder Meter für die Kunst - Fundacja Gerarda, Swieradow Zdroj Konkrete Kunst Internationaal: Projekt 30 x 30 - Coopmansh Museum, Franeker 1994 Konkrete Kunst Internationaal: Projekt 30 x 30 - De Vrije Academie, The Hague Jeder Meter für die Kunst - Altes Gaswerk, Hünfeld Projekt 30 x 30 - Konkrete Kunst International - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen 1990 Accrochage - Kleine Bilder, Objekte, Plastiken - Galerie St. Johann - 19507, Saarbrücken Dealer Directory...