Before and after Abstraction serves as an introduction to the oeuvre of Stanislaw Fijalkowski. Spanning a period of approximately sixty years his body of work is a unique example of painterly abstraction. Following the revolutionary emergence of abstract art in both Western European and Russian avantgarde circles Fijalkowskis painting relied on the foundations of early modernism while reevaluating its ideological axioms and theoretical conclusions. His particular form of painterly abstraction a