The exhibition will be officially opened on 9th March at 6pm in the Titanikas exhibition halls at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. It explores the strong links between Polish animation and art. Among the artists featured in the exhibition are Piotr Dumała, Jan Lenica, Julian Antonisz, Krzysztof Kiwerski, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Tomasz Bagiński, Aleksander Sroczyński, Janek Koza, Andrzej Klimowski, Jacek Staniszewski, Sylwester Ambroziak, Mariusz Wilczyński and Wojciech Bąkowski. The exhibition will be open until 2nd April 2016.
Accompanying the project is a master class by Piotr Dumała at the Faculty of Photography and Media Arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Scheduled for 10th March at noon, the lecture will be preceded by screenings of Dumała's most important short animations at 11.30am.
Also on 10th March is the beginning of the four-day film section. Opening at 5.30pm at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the showcase will feature a broad selection of animated films, spanning from the early masterpieces of Polish animation of the 1950s and 1960s to the newest productions. Each of the first three days of the screenings will be dedicated to a specific artist: Piotr Dumała on 10th March, Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk on the 11th , and Julian Antonisz on 12th March. The last day showcases the most significant films of the last few decades, including famous masterpieces such as Zbigniew Rybczyński's Tango (awarded an Oscar in 1983) and The Cathedral by Tomasz Bagiński.
Organised by the Kampania Artystyczna Association, the project has received financial support from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Its partners are the Polish Institute in Vilnius, the Meno Parkas gallery, Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Kultūros Fabrikas in Klaipėda, Great Amber in Liepāja, and the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts in Riga.
Over the next few months, the project will be shown in the Lithuanian cities of Kaunas and Klaipėda, as well as Liepāja and Riga in Latvia.