edited by: Janusz Janowski
in collaboration with: Piotr Bernatowicz

authors: Piotr Bernatowicz, Patrycja Cembrzyńska, Janusz Janowski, Joanna Oparek, Sebastian Stankiewicz
editorial coordination: Dorota Karaszewska
graphic design: Siostry Piwowar Studio
photographs: Piotr Antonów
translation: Łukasz Mojsak
editing: Jolanta Pieńkos
image editing: Tatarak
printed by Argraf sp. z o.o.
publisher: Zachęta — Narodowa Galeria Sztuki
published: 2023
ISBN: 978-83-66979-15-4
cover: hardback
pages: 192
language: Polish / English

Painting is one of those art forms where competition is especially strong. It is not an easy task to create one’s own idiom, one’s own unique and recognizable style. To say something truly significant in one’s painting is even more difficult. Ignacy Czwartos has succeeded on both counts.

His particular use of a spectrum of subtle shades of beige, different hues of white and soft blues, enriched with ‘muddy’ greens and dusky reds, goes well together with a harmonious rigidity of form, which manifests itself in his creations of wide, flat surfaces with parse objects or geometrical figures. All this makes the painter instantly recognizable when one comes across his work.