{"id":18572,"date":"2025-12-02T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?p=18572"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:22:29","slug":"exhibition-the-game-of-resistance-wojciech-fangor-at-gnyp-gallery-antwerp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2025\/12\/02\/exhibition-the-game-of-resistance-wojciech-fangor-at-gnyp-gallery-antwerp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: The Game of Resistance &#8211; Wojciech Fangor at GNYP Gallery Antwerp\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i>The Game of Resistance<\/i>\u00a0is the 5th exhibition of the Polish artist Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015) with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gnypgallery.com\/exhibitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GNYP Gallery<\/a><\/strong>, organised in collaboration with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fangorfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fangor Foundation<\/a><\/strong>. While previous exhibitions have focused more on Fangor\u2019s abstract works, <i>The Game of Resistance<\/i> focuses more on the artist\u2019s earlier works in the context of post-war Poland. It concentrates on Fangor&#8217;s Socialist Realism works, archival material and his growing interest in abstraction after the Polish thaw. By presenting these paintings, the GNYP gallery aims to understand his work from a broader perspective of the changing socio-political context during that time. During his life as an artist, Wojciech Fangor was part of significant international movements that had profoundly changed the course of Western art history. The depth of Fangor\u2019s art, the openness of his artistic approach and his search for the New resulted in a significant oeuvre that has kept its relevancy till today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_18545\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18545\" class=\"wp-image-18545\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-1024x874.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-1536x1311.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-2048x1749.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img34-350x300.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wojciech Fangor, Trial, 1949, oil on canvas, 74 x 90 cm<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Three selected areas, defined by Fangor\u2019s specific works, are structuring this exhibition. The first area presents earlier work focussing on Social Realism. The second period focuses on the arrest and trial of Konrad Fangor, Wojciech Fangor\u2019s father. This occurred within the post-war Polish context, where the new socialist state was consolidating power and targeting former bourgeois industrialists and entrepreneurs for \u201ceconomic crimes\u201d. The case fits that pattern of repression. During this time Wojciech Fangor starts to lose faith in the politic system. The third area focuses on the liberation and Fangor\u2019s growing interest in abstraction and spatial experiments. Early abstract works are presented, that later manifested to Fangor\u2019s famous optical illusion paintings with blurred and diffused edges. This led to his inclusion on the 1965 MoMa exhibition \u201cThe Responsive Eye\u201d and his 1970 solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_18546\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18546\" class=\"wp-image-18546\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39-811x1024.jpg 811w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39-768x969.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39-1217x1536.jpg 1217w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39-1623x2048.jpg 1623w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/img39.jpg 1966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wojciech Fangor &#8222;Niebieski Czarny Bia\u0142y&#8221; (Blue Black White), 1957, oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm<br \/><br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">Wojciech Fangor<\/b>\u00a0was born in 1922 in Warsaw. His artistic education was disrupted by the Second World War, which later on pushed him into practicing socialist realism as a painter. Between 1953 and 1961, he was employed as assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. At the same time, he was also active as a designer of posters using collages, texts, drawings and photography, and became one of the founders of the Polish School of Posters. Although successful in these fields, Fangor decided to shift his attention to spatial experiments, which gradually resulted in his abstract illusionist paintings with diffused edges of color and shape. After short stays in Vienna, Paris, Bath, London and Berlin, Fangor moved to the US in 1966, where he participated in important exhibitions such as The Responsive Eye at MoMA in 1965, and had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1970. After his retirement as professor of art at the Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, he returned to Poland in 1999. He continued to make art and in 2014 designed murals for the station walls of the Warsaw Underground. He died in 2015 near Warsaw.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">December 12, 2025 \u2013 February 28, 2026<br \/>Open from Wednesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/GNYP+Gallery\/@51.1962453,4.4048291,15z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x47c3f7799248b4c7:0xfd19c36f5e72ca7c!8m2!3d51.1962453!4d4.4048291!16s%2Fg%2F11sszqk4zj?entry=ttu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0GNYP Gallery Antwerp<br \/><\/strong>Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 112<br \/>2018 Antwerp<\/a><br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/logo-gg-300x54.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/logo-gg-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/logo-gg.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18620 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Fundacja-Fangor-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Fundacja-Fangor-Logo.png 192w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Fundacja-Fangor-Logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game of Resistance\u00a0is the 5th exhibition of the Polish artist Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015) with the GNYP Gallery, organised in collaboration with the Fangor Foundation. 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While previous exhibitions have focused more on Fangor\u2019s abstract works, The Game of Resistance focuses more on the artist\u2019s earlier works in the context of post-war Poland. It concentrates on Fangor's Socialist Realism works, archival material and his growing interest in abstraction after the Polish thaw. By presenting these paintings, the GNYP gallery aims to understand his work from a broader perspective of the changing socio-political context during that time. During his life as an artist, Wojciech Fangor was part of significant international movements that had profoundly changed the course of Western art history. The depth of Fangor\u2019s art, the openness of his artistic approach and his search for the New resulted in a significant oeuvre that has kept its relevancy till today.\u00a0\n[caption id=\"attachment_18545\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"] Wojciech Fangor, Trial, 1949, oil on canvas, 74 x 90 cm[\/caption]\nThree selected areas, defined by Fangor\u2019s specific works, are structuring this exhibition. The first area presents earlier work focussing on Social Realism. The second period focuses on the arrest and trial of Konrad Fangor, Wojciech Fangor\u2019s father. This occurred within the post-war Polish context, where the new socialist state was consolidating power and targeting former bourgeois industrialists and entrepreneurs for \u201ceconomic crimes\u201d. The case fits that pattern of repression. During this time Wojciech Fangor starts to lose faith in the politic system. The third area focuses on the liberation and Fangor\u2019s growing interest in abstraction and spatial experiments. Early abstract works are presented, that later manifested to Fangor\u2019s famous optical illusion paintings with blurred and diffused edges. This led to his inclusion on the 1965 MoMa exhibition \u201cThe Responsive Eye\u201d and his 1970 solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.\n[caption id=\"attachment_18546\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"396\"] Wojciech Fangor \"Niebieski Czarny Bia\u0142y\" (Blue Black White), 1957, oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm[\/caption]\nWojciech Fangor\u00a0was born in 1922 in Warsaw. His artistic education was disrupted by the Second World War, which later on pushed him into practicing socialist realism as a painter. Between 1953 and 1961, he was employed as assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. At the same time, he was also active as a designer of posters using collages, texts, drawings and photography, and became one of the founders of the Polish School of Posters. Although successful in these fields, Fangor decided to shift his attention to spatial experiments, which gradually resulted in his abstract illusionist paintings with diffused edges of color and shape. After short stays in Vienna, Paris, Bath, London and Berlin, Fangor moved to the US in 1966, where he participated in important exhibitions such as The Responsive Eye at MoMA in 1965, and had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1970. After his retirement as professor of art at the Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, he returned to Poland in 1999. He continued to make art and in 2014 designed murals for the station walls of the Warsaw Underground. He died in 2015 near Warsaw.\nDecember 12, 2025 \u2013 February 28, 2026Open from Wednesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00\u00a0GNYP Gallery AntwerpJan Van Rijswijcklaan 1122018 Antwerp"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2025\/12\/02\/exhibition-the-game-of-resistance-wojciech-fangor-at-gnyp-gallery-antwerp-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Hands-Fangor.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Hands-Fangor.png","width":600,"height":503},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2025\/12\/02\/exhibition-the-game-of-resistance-wojciech-fangor-at-gnyp-gallery-antwerp-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Exhibition: The Game of Resistance &#8211; Wojciech Fangor at GNYP Gallery Antwerp\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Brukseli","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#\/schema\/person\/7fb78e4d06f525f8cb5bfcf79350da60","name":"poltowiczk","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6db42d486d12e2ae54e70b476b4b772c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6db42d486d12e2ae54e70b476b4b772c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"poltowiczk"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/author\/poltowiczk\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18572"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19125,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572\/revisions\/19125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}