The exhibition is also an attempt to present the essence of Polish paintings created in a specific cultural space. The space determines values marked with a specific way of thinking, a birthplace, cultural influences of various regions and the events of Polish history.
New Tendencies in Polish Painting 2 is also intended to initiate a discourse on the changeability of the flow of external values and their influence on shaping Polish artists' attitudes and the emergence, in their context, of exceptional values unique for our cultural circle. The idea of this exhibition is to present new phenomena in Polish painting. It is not a review of current artistic attitudes, rather, it is meant to present creative activities and drive the quality of new phenomena, which are typically Polish and bear the features of the unique social and cultural influences on Polish art. This is the second edition of this exhibition. The first one took place at the turn of 2006 and 2007.
This chapter of the exhibition selected the works by fourteen artists: Jan Berdyszak, Beata Ewa Białecka, Krzysztof Gliszczyński, Wojciech Gilewicz, Pascale Héliot, Konrad Jarodzki, Kamil Kuskowski, Wojciech Leder, Roman Lipski, Maciej Łubowski, Magda Moskwa, Bartłomiej Otocki, Radosław Szlaga, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski and The Krasnals art group. The members of the chapter are: Marta Smolińska, Małgorzata Jankowska, Jolanta Ciesielska, Jerzy Brukwicki, Paweł Lewandowski-Palle and Wacław Kuczma.
Artist Małgorzata Jankowska says the works are either "boastful or critical towards the times they were created in", exceeding definition and creating a new style. Paweł Lewandowski-Palle adds,
The reports of the death of painting have always been greatly exaggerated and overdrawn. They sounded old and untrue. I don't believe painting is over. I am one of those who have never doubted its importance. Painting is constantly the most popular art. It has its audience [...] it has its own solemnly celebrated festivals, one of which is the 2nd New Tendencies in Polish Painting.
The exhibition runs between the 19th of November, 2011 through the 26th of February, 2012
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Source: press release
Thumbnail credit: Radosław Szlaga - Malarstwo, 2008, oil on canvas, 65x90 cm, from the collection of Tomasz Tworek