Vernissage of paintings and prints by Witold Zandfos

21/02/2025

DOMOTEKA invites you to the vernissage of paintings and prints by Witold Zandfos, titled “The painting. “INUIT, GEISHA, SAMURAI”.

WHERE: DOMOTEKA, ul. Malborska 41
WHEN: March 5, 2025 (Wednesday), at. 18:00

The exhibition will be open until the end of April 2025.

WITOLD ZANDFOS
born in Warsaw in 1938, is an architect by profession. He studied Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he was a student of Prof. Bohdan Urbanovich. Since 1963, he has lived and worked in Paris.
All of his primary professional activity focused on architecture. In 1965-71, together with architects Jan Karczewski and Michel Lefebvre, he forms the MIASTO group, conducting a search for futuristic forms for utopian cities of the future. Their work has been the subject of numerous publications and exhibitions in Europe, as well as participation in many architectural competitions. He is awarded First Prize at the Paris Biennale in 1965 and the Grand Prix d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme in Cannes (1969 and 1970).
From 1971 to 1983, the artist worked as an urban planner on the construction of New Towns in the Paris region, and in 1983 he opens his independent architectural studio. Since then, he has built more than 30 public buildings, a number of residential complexes and new neighborhoods in various French cities. During martial law in Poland, he took an active part in the movement of Polish architects in France in support of victims of repression, including. creating political placards.
Zandfos, whose interest in painting manifested itself at the age of 16, painting sporadically during an active architectural career, has taken up painting again in the last 25 years. During this time, his works were the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in France and Poland, including. w: Galerie Roi Doré in Paris (2010), Galerie ZPAP Pryzmat in Krakow (2008), Galerie Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (2007), Galerie Roger Ikor in Frette-sur-Seine (2007). He also participated in the Peintres-Architectes group exhibition at the SARP Gallery in Warsaw (2008) and the SARP Gallery in Gdansk (2011).
The gifted painter and architect is also a collector of ethnic and “primitive” art, often drawing themes and formal inspiration from it for his works, which were exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris (2019, 2020).