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Wróblewski works presented in the exhibition in Munich

05.01.2017

At the exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 in Haus der Kunst in Munich (14.10.2016 — 26.03.2017) were presented oil paintings by Andrzej Wroblewski: Chauffeur (Blue Chauffeur), 1948 / Liquidation of the Ghetto, 1949; Executed Man, Execution with a Gestapo Man, 1949, Sun and Other Stars, 1948.

The exhibition examines the vibrant and turbulent postwar period as a global phenomenon for the first time in recent exhibition history. In eight dramatic chapters, the exhibition guides visitors through the first 20 years following the end of World War II, demonstrating how artists coped with and responded to the traumas of the Holocaust, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; how the two political blocs of the Cold War exploited the arts and created competition between realism and abstraction, and how displacement and migration produced new cosmopolitan contexts across the world. The postwar period also marked the end of European colonial systems; the rise of nation-building, decolonization and liberation movements; the partition of countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; as well as the civil rights movement in the United States. These changes unleashed an incredible energy visible in the art of the time. New technologies began to pour into everyday life; the space age fascinated artists as well as the masses, opening up a completely new and dynamic field of artistic consideration.

As an in-depth, global study, the exhibition shows painting, sculpture, installation, collage, performance, film, artist books, documents, photography, in total more than 350 works by 218 artists from 65 countries.

Curators: Okwui Enwezor, Cathy Siegel, Ulrich Wilmes

Catalog of the exhibition

Trailer of the exhibition
Fragment of the catalog with an introduction by Okwui Enwezor

More information

14.10.2016 — 26.03.2017
www.hausderkunst.de
Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538 Monachium

Based on information from the organizer.