Between 1953 and 1954, during the travel to fighting Vietnam, Aleksander Kobzdej made the cycle of the reportage drawings. He accompanied the Viet Mihn forces marching to Dien Bien Phu bastion, the fall of ended in 1954 which The First Indochina War. In this article, the author compares Kobzdej’s drawings with other reportage works in the visual arts and literature of the late 1940s and early 1950s in Poland. He tries to emphasize how the communist authority used them for its own purposes. He concludes that Kobzdej’s drawings are not only the example of social realistic art in Poland, but also the evidence of the specific kind of colonialism represented by the Eastern Bloc countries after the World War II.
Works no. 38 and 44 from the Hors cadre series by Aleksander Kobzdej are unstable, and their support is lowrigid, so they are permanently exposed to distortions of the surface. The only possibility of limiting and slowing down the processes of deterioration of Hors cadre is strengthening their support – with the use of structural groundworks. The aim of the work described in the article was to separate, describe and study structural groundworks suitable for unstable objects with spatial structure, and preparation of groundworks for two spatial paintings undergoing the process of restoration. Thanks to the usage of strengthening structure, it will be possible to expose, store, and transport them in a safe way. Assuming that supplementary structural groundworks for Hors cadre are supposed to have many various functions at the same time, features of an optimum groundwork were determined. It was determined that such structure must have a relevant stability in order to limit unfavourable movements of the support of the work. It should be adequately adjusted to the structure of the art work, neutral in chemical terms, it should be light, and do not interfere with the character of the work. Seven types of structural groundwork were described. Their fragments or models were prepared, three of them were applied to two paintings under restoration. Presented structural groundworks are: gypsum groundwork in the form of adequately cut polycarbonate panel, made of polyurethane foam, laminate for plastics, sandwich structure, in the form of a grate made of profiled slats, of aluminium cut-drawn mesh or aluminium perforated sheet, of papier-mâché. Structural groundworks were selected with a view to their usability for painting no. 38 and 44. They are also suitable for other works from Hors cadre series, which comprises approximately seventy works. They may be also used in other modern art objects, affected with similar structure issues.
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