All of the duo's compositions took their cue from the proportions of spatial arrangements - whether the medium is architecture, design or painting.
Gabriel Rechowicz treated painting as an autonomous discipline, however he used it in a very special way - quite frequently he painted horizontally, which means that he would put the canvas flat down on the floor or dais and worked this way. This is why it is not easy to identify the arrangement of the composition – is it horizontal or vertical? How should one hang the painting? Hanna Rechowicz points out that not even the signature determines this.
In other words, you can look at Rechowicz’s works however you like, as if they were lying on the floor, turn them around, walk around them. As an artist, who frequently places colourful compositions in architectural space, Rechowicz emphasizes a simple fact, that a canvass is also a physical object.
In 2011 Warsaw's Kolonie Gallery rediscovered the couple's architectural projects and stage designs Hanna Rechowicz’s special compositions were for the first time ever presented alongside Gabriel Rechowicz’s paintings. The exhibition treated Gabriel Rechowicz's works as a one big painting, a special arrangement composed of modules made up of the individual works. The paintings were accompanied by a special composition by Hanna Rechowicz and a project of a geometrical decoration, which was created by the artist in 1985 for the Polish Mother’s Health Center Research Institute in Lodz.
The exhibition, held between November 2011-January 2012 was the first major presentation of Hanna and Gabriel Rechowicz’s art. Its purpose was to restore its rightful place in today’s discussion about art.
Source: Kolonie Gallery