Ceramics at the National Museum in Krakow
Angel - Sculpture Eugeniusz Molski
Sculptures, reliefs, mosaics, slabs and plates used for architectural decoration, dishes unique objects by 41 artists make up the exhibition "The fire created ... Ceramics Cracow after 1945" opened yesterday at the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow.
This is the first since 1964, so great showcase of ceramics in Krakow. Ceramic Collection of the National Museum is relatively new in the scale of other collections. For the purpose of the exhibition, some works on loan from other museums and artists directly from completing their own collections, or negligible. Great architecture, decorating projects shown in the large-format photographs. With the possibilities offered by computer processing, we can recall, for example, looked like celebrity ever piropiktura Helena and Roman Hussarskich 1958, facade exterior of the piedmont of the Crown before it was zapaskudzona by dirt and lack of effort on the part of the host object.
We watch the works of artists from several generations, covering almost the entire twentieth century, the oldest - Piętków family, Stephanie and Zygmunt Flinowie birth dates are in the first decade of the century. The youngest participants of the exhibition is a year-seventies. It is at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts graduates several ceramics in Wroclaw - and they are sculptors, painters after the Academy of Fine Arts, who came to the experiments by the technical mastery - to mention just Hussarskich. They are almost legendary figures like Zbigniew Ksiazek, an artist who łysogórską "stove" made famous, and the school put up the first steps przyzakładowej successor ...
At this show there are no invalid artists. Curator, Bozena Kostuch has made every effort to ensure that the authors were represented typical work for them, and the best choice to show their works of exploration and transformation.
During yesterday's opening of a theater there from Gliwice, flashing open fire. Works created in the fire will remain with us until August 24. Accompanied by a catalog, which introduces us to the text part in Krakow's history and contemporary pottery, and part of The album shows it all.
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Photos Wenceslaus Klag
Source: Polish Official
