Henryk Stażewski’s exhibition at the Foksal Gallery in June 1967 was a radical gesture of breaking with the traditional form of presenting artwork. The artist arranged the space as a holistic experience: reliefs and color planes extended beyond the walls, covering the floor and engaging the viewer in active presence. The surrounding blackness intensified the perception of color and form, and the spatial composition became an environment rather than just a backdrop. This was one of the first environment-based works in Poland, marking a new way of thinking about concrete art — as something operating in real space and time.


Henryk Stażewski (1894–1988) – painter, art theorist, and one of the most important figures of the 20th-century Polish avant-garde. Associated with constructivism since the 1920s, in the 1960s and 1970s he created spatial reliefs that combined color, geometry, and architecture in radical exhibition arrangements.