The exhibition will also showcase works that are not so easily classified, such as works by Jerzy Nowosielski, Stanisław Fijałkowski and Jan Lebenstein. The 1980s and 1990s are represented by Jan Pamuła, who was the first artist in Poland to use computer software in his work, and Jerzy Kałucki, who could be considered a constructivist. Józef Hałas and Leon Tarasewicz are representatives of geometric painting based on synthesising images of nature, based on the richness of texture and colour. Deriving from abstraction, a separate current of art is represented by the works of Roman Opałka, Edward Krasiński and Jerzy Rosołowicz. Concrete poetry will be shown through the texts of Stanisław Dróżdż.
The core of the exhibition are exhibits borrowed from the private collections of Renata and Grzegorz Król from Warsaw, as well as Grażyna and Jacek Łozowski from Wrocław. It is also graced by works belonging to the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.
The exhibition was prepared by an international team of historians, art theoreticians and curators including Štěpánka Bieleszová and Ladislav Daněk from MUO, while the catalogue texts were written by Krystyna Czerni, Barbara Ilkosz, Bożena Kowalska, and Andrzej Nakov. Beata Gawrońska-Oramus is behind the concept for the exhibition.
The exhibition is organised in partnership with the Museum of Art in Olomouc and the Polish Institute in Prague.
The project is co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute operating under the Culture.pl brand as part of POLSKA 100, the international cultural programme accompanying the centenary of Poland regaining independence. Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-2021.
Source: press materials, compiled by Culture.pl, translated by NR, Apr 2018
