installation of the exhibition “Andrzej Wróblewski. Verso / reverso”, Madrid

Five years after the first international solo show Andrzej Wróblewski. To the Margin and Back (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 2010), Wróblewski comes back to one of the most inspiring European museum with magnificent presentation Andrzej Wróblewski. Verso / reverso organised by Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. This presentation “enables his work to be contemplated in a way that goes beyond the reductionist clichés of socialist realism or Outsider Art, through which art from countries in the Soviet sphere of influence has been studied until recently. Wróblewski was an artist that could work on the borders between abstraction and figuration, combining formal invention with the analysis of daily life and its limits – the degradation of war and dictatorial politics – by means of a profound human and political commitment” (press materials).

The exhibition is accompanied by bilingual catalogue including essays by Éric de Chassey (Starting from Scratch – Twice), Rachel Haidu (Official Primitive), Tom McDonough (In Its Revolutionary Development: Andrzej Wróblewski as Socialist Realist), Ulrich Loock (Andrzej Wróblewski – A Work of Fragmentation), Marta Dziewańska (Andrzej Wróblewski: Antihero) and a compilation of Artist’s writings.

curators: Marta Dziewańska, Éric de Chassey
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17.11.2015 – 28.02.2016
Palacio de Velázquez, Park Retiro, Madryt