Jerzy Rosolowicz (1928 Winniki near Lvov - 1982 Wroclaw), From the series "Unhappy, crisis like garden flowers", 1981

Biography
Studied between 1948 and 1953 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He was one of the leading conceptual artists in Poland. After graduation, he painted metaphorical paintings inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. In late 1957 and early 1958, he began to create paintings that are counted among the most interesting manifestations of matter painting in Poland. In the second half of the 1960s, he invented a device for catching dew, and the Neutrodrome, a 100-meter-high structure in the shape of an inverted cone, which was to be used to disturb the human senses: smell, taste, hearing and balance. At the same time, he began to introduce lenses into his works, first incorporating them into paintings, then placing them in a frame, building regular compositions out of them, in combination with prisms. In 1968 he formulated the theory of the function of form.