Andrzej Rozycki (1942), Klatka II, 1969

gelatin-silver print, paper, cardboard 57.5 x 47.3 cm
signed, titled, dated, on the reverse
vintage print
binding: passe-partout, wooden frame, glass
The photograph is one of the most recognizable works created in the circle of the Zero 61 Group. It is a characteristic example for the artist of combining technological experiments with a metaphorical, often lyrical way of depicting reality. The effect of experimenting with photochemistry in the photo is the solarized elements, inverted branches in the negative, which the artist used in a later series of works Paradise Lost. The mysteriousness of the almost unreal view of the forest clearing is achieved in deep black, in contrast to the first version of the photo taken a year earlier and developed in a limited gray palette.

The work reproduced, among others, in: L. Lechowicz, Group Zero-61 (19611969), Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theater in Lodz, Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz 2016; Andrzej Różycki. Poetics of Forms, Municipal Gallery of Art in Łódź, Łódź 2011; Andrzej Rożycki - Being with the Sacred, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń 2011; Polish Contemporary Photo Exhibition: After Man Ray Vol.3 / Negation and Return in Polish Photography, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo 1990.