A-B-Cs
March 13, 2003
An exhibition of works by Antoni Starczewski is on at the Art Museum in Łódź. The audiovisual alphabet invented by Starczewski in 1963, regarded by the artist as his artistic birth, earned him the greatest fame. The alphabet includes ceramic and wooden signs, leaves, vegetables and fruit cast in porcelain, vowels written or spoken, violin sounds, newspaper columns, objects of daily use and waste products. The alphabet was used by the artist in many of his sculptures, prints and installations. The rhythm as well as the uniformity and clarity of the composition, treated as a means for ordering the world and overcoming chaos, are the most important features of Starczewski's art.
The exhibition of Starczewski's paintings, sculptures, cloths, prints and installations will be presented through March 30.