On 6 December, the Royal Academy of Arts in London hosted an international conference organised by the International Catalogue Raisonné Association which as a member we were honoured to attend.
The On Paper conference addressed the issue of the relationship between works of art made on paper or with paper and their classification in catalogues raisonné. Lectures and discussions, which included Annette Wickham, curator of the works on paper department at the Royal Academy of Arts, Yuval Etgar, independent author and art historian, director of research at Luxembourg + Co, and Adam Granelagh, curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and author of the catalogue raisonné of works on paper by Mark Rothko, explored topics such as the characteristics of collections of works on paper, the specifics of their storage, methodologies for cataloguing them and the search for lost works and working with artists’ foundations that work to develop the artistic legacy of, for example, Louise Bourgeois.
The Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation’s participation in the event was made possible thanks to the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The annual conference of CIMAM – the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – was held from 9 to 11 November at the largest and most important meeting of curators and directors of institutions presenting contemporary art. This year, members of the organisation, special guests and representatives of art institutions met in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The conference was hosted by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and Director Victoria Northoorn.
The three-day event fostered discussions about the social and educational mission of contemporary art museums and the active role museums can play in building an inclusive 21st century society. In addition to the agenda, an important highlight of this year’s edition were visits to the studios of artists, curators and visits to the cultural spaces of Buenos Aires according to the thematic paths and interests of the participants.
As the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, we visited, among others, the home and archive of Leon Ferrari (1920-2013) and the Foundation founded by the artist’s family, the archive of the liberation movements, the Narcisa Hirsch exhibition at the Kirchner Cultural Center and contemporary art exhibitions such as the Edgardo Gimenez retrospective at the Museo MALBA.
The Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation’s participation in the event was made possible thanks to the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń hosted the premiere of the Serenissima East project, which brings together artists from the Baltic countries.
At the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, one can admire works by Andrzej Wróblewski, Tomasz Ciecierski or Jan Dobkowski, as well as artists from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, including Jonas Gasiūnas, Kaido Ole, Andris Vitolins or Kestutis Zapkus.
As part of the exhibition, the international curatorial team, led by Krzysztof Stanislawski, reaches back into the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which provides an excellent starting point for discussing contemporary events and the future.
Exhibition open from October 20 to December 31, 2023 Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń Wały Generała Władysława Sikorskiego 13, Toruń https://csw.torun.pl/
The exhibition ‘Wróblewski and After… Art of Direct Realism’ at the National Museum in Lublin is coming to an end.
On August 26 at 5PM, as part of the closing events, you are invited to a discussion led by exhibition curator Marcin Lachowski with the participation of researchers of Andrzej Wróblewski’s work: Anna Król, Andy Rottenberg, Hanna Wróblewska, Magdalena Ziółkowska and Wojciech Grzybała.
The exhibition titled “Vilnius, Vilnius, Vilne 1918-1948: One City – Many Stories” shows Vilnius during an exceptionally complicated historical period.
The seven-part narrative of the exhibition shows how artists of the then multicultural Vilnius perceived their city. The display presents works by Vilnius artists stored in Polish and Lithuanian cultural heritage institutions. In addition to the well-known and oft-presented works of the classics of Vilnius art, including Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Jan Bułhak, Ludomir Sleńdzinski, Bronisław Jamontt, Michał Rouba, Jerzy Hoppen, one can also see paintings and prints by the younger generation of artists, which included Hanna Milewska, Józef Horyd and Hadassa Gurewicz-Grodzka.
The depiction of Vilnius has been expanded to include a Lithuanian chapter, consisting of landscapes and portraits by Vladas Drėma, Antanas Gudaitis, Juozas Mikėnas, Algirdas Petrulis and Adomas Varnas.
The narrative culminates with works born of nostalgia for lost Vilnius, including prints and paintings by Andrzej Wroblewski.
On May 17, 2023, the opening of the exhibition ‘The Tatras. Wróblewski, Karłowicz, Wyczółkowski’ at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology took place.
Together with director Katarzyna Nowak and the curatorial team consisting of Dr Anna Król, Dr Magdalena Ziółkowska and Wojciech Grzybała, we would like to express our deepest thanks to all the guests for their presence.
From left: Magdalena Ziółkowska, Anna Król, Marta Wróblewska and Wojciech Grzybała
On May 17, 2023 the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology will open an extraordinary exhibition, presenting works by three artists: Andrzej Wróblewski, Mieczysław Karłowicz, and Leon Wyczółkowski. This is the first show to bring the work of these three outstanding artists together.
The Tatras: Wróblewski, Karłowicz, Wyczółkowski exhibition will display a series of inks by Andrzej Wróblewski with views of the Tatra Mountains, his geometrical abstractions from 1948, original prints of Mieczysław Karłowicz’s mountain landscape photographs, carefully stored in the PTTK Mountain Tourism Center in Krakow, and paintings, pastels, and prints by Leon Wyczółkowski from the 1900s, inspired by a Japanese aesthetic. The works are linked by the artists’ remarkable ability to translate their feeling for the mountains into a visual language. The exhibition will run until November 5, 2023.
To mark the centenary of Tadeusz Różewicz’s birth, the exhibition “Różewicz and Paintings” was opened at the Opera Gallery in the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera. The curator of the exhibition, Marcin Fedisz, has selected painters and their works in such a way as to illustrate the poet’s long-standing friendships with the artistic community. The exhibition features works by such artists as Tadeusz Brzozowski, Maria Jarema, Ewa Kierska, Aleksander Kobzdej, Tadeusz Makowski, Kazimierz Mikulski, Jerzy Nowosielski, Jonasz Stern, Stasys Eidrigevičius, Jerzy Tchórzewski and Andrzej Wróblewski.
The paintings of these artists have been complemented by the words of Różewicz. Thanks to the cooperation with the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, the exhibition features seven works on paper by the artist. Some of them are sketches for Executions and “Mother with a Dead Child” – some of them have not been exhibited before and are known only from publications. These drawings show subsequent stages of Wróblewski’s thinking about the cycle of Shootings, they also show the artist’s unrealized ideas.
Poster graphic design: Katarzyna Bobrowska Author of the poster: Stasys Eidrigevičius
