Polish-born, internationally recognized artist, George Grochocki, whose career spans for more than six decades, currently lives and works between Houston, Texas, and Warsaw, Poland. As Euclid constructed a system of geometry erected upon foundation of primary notions, and Spinoza utilizing the Euclidian model constructed a system of philosophy, George Grochocki has constructed a body of work that places him firmly in the tradition of “one-image” systemic art. His work claims similarity to the abstract systemic art and the repetitive imagery of such artists as Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Thomas Downing. Grochocki utilizes in his system four colors: black, gold, silver, and white. For the artist these colors are symbols or “signs” that represent the notions of tranquility, confinement, separation, and tension. Utilizing the square as his primary form, Grochocki creates four spatial archetypes or “areas." These “areas” when endowed with color become a commentary upon the dynamics of space. There is a profound simplicity and elegance in Grochocki’s work that is built upon his unique synthesis of color and form, a synthesis that enables the viewer to discern the bridge between scientific and artistic understanding of the world.George Grochocki has participated in over a hundred individual and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States, receiving several awards and merits. His involvement in the Systemic Art movement in Europe and with artistic groups such as Arbeitkreis in Holland, Dimensio in Finland, and Exacte Tendenzen in Austria, has earned him outstanding international praise. From 1963 to 1968, before dedicating his life’s artwork to his systemic philosophies, Grochocki created a series of paintings inspired by mountainous landscapes, figurative compositions and surreal abstractions. Between 1967 and 1970, a fascination with mathematics and geometry lead Grochocki to the creativity of Constructivism. In 1977, Grochocki participated in the Congress of Visual Text in Warsaw, where he employed his color system in relation to a letters’ sound, creating a personal visual language. In 2013, for his “Art as an Interpretation of Mathematics" he received an Honorary Grant from Poland's Ministry of Culture, and in 2017, a Grant for his “Visual Text," which was based on the organization of tonal letters in accordance with his Four Signs of Plane and Four Areas of Space System. Both themes were accompanied by a publication that was designed and printed by the artist. Grochocki's work can be found in numerous museum and public collections, such as Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland; National Museum of Art, Kielce, Poland; Museum Modern Art, Hunfeld, Denmark; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; USA; Exakte Tendenzen Collection, Vienna, Austria; François Morellet Collection, Cholet, France; Fibak Collection, Warsaw, Poland; ARTROOM Collection, Warszawa, Poland. In 2020, Grochocki had a major retrospective, Time/Space - A Retrospective, at the BWA, Olsztyn, Poland.
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