Josep Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski

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Date

b. 1922 – d. 1994

Josep Stanislaus

Ostoja-Kotkowski

Golub

Artist

Poland

Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski was a Polish emigrant who arrived in Australia at the end of 1949. He had become interested in mechanical things as a child and began painting during World War 2. After the war he studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie and absorbed abstract expressionist ideas in painting, as well as becoming familiar with kinetic and other contemporary art ideas abroad in Europe at the time.

Author

Stephen Jones

Male

1994

Period of activity

from 1962

External Assets: selected from the Ostoja-Kotkowski archive at State Library of South Australia.

SLSA: PRG 919/39/82-122 (1964-06-29): Newspaper clipping, black and white photographs, proof sheets, negatives and colour negatives of chromasonics and polarchromatics and electronic images including ‘sunset at sea’ at an exhibition at the Argus Gallery (29 June 1964) in Melbourne.

SLSA: PRG 919/39/108-122 (1964-06-29): Black and white negatives, proof sheets and colour negatives of the works in the Argus Gallery show; electronic images, chromasonics and polarchromatics.

SLSA: PRG 919/39/123-124 (1964-06-29): The invite card/catalogue and one proof print and negative from an exhibition of electronic images at the Argus Gallery; electronic images, chromasonics and polarchromatics.

SLSA: PRG 919/52/163-189 (1964-10-26): Segment on Graham Kennedy’s IMT: In Melbourne Tonight on GTV Channel 9 in Melbourne. Black and white photographs and negatives. Images are of country singers in front of Ostoja-Kotkowski’s paintings and electronic images, Gabrielle Hartley, and a cat. (Gabrielle Hartley was in Prisoner, which was also on GTV 9.)

SLSA: PRG919/8/8 (1964-10-26): Listener In, TV, 24–30 October 1964. Picture of dancers superimposed over electronic image from the GTV9 Sound and Image film to be shown on In Melbourne Tonight, 26 October 1964.

SLSA: PRG 919/52/63-162 (1964-10-26): Black and white photographs and negatives, and a newspaper cutting relating to a Sound and Image production on GTV Channel 9. Ostoja-Kotkowski created the electronic images and used music by Henk Badings. Choreography Elizabeth Dalman; dancers Dianna Clayfield and Zane Danson; director Brian Phillis

SLSA: PRG 919/52/1-18 (1962): Black and white photographs of artworks, electronic images, dancers with electronic images, the Black Theatre of Prague and Sound and Image experimental theatre in 1962.

Adelaide

S.A.

Australia