BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice

‘The Centre of Polish Sculpture has its seat in Orońsko, a village in the region of Mazowsze, situated in the very heart of Poland, between Warsaw and Cracow. Far from the chaos of contemporary civilisation and from city turmoil, it is at the same time a denial of nuisance and average provincial life. (...)
Sculptors appeared in Orońsko, choosing the place for various reasons, but surely because of not distant deposits of good Szydłowiec sandstone. They found here the quiet spot and started to fill it with the sounds of their tools, aiming at awakening and reviving the sleepy genius loci. (...)
The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko came into being with the decision of the Minister of Culture and Arts in 1981. The core of it was the centre of creative work of sculptors, which functioned here as early as in the sixties as a place of non-formal milieu meetings. Today’s structure soon appeared around it, including the Museum of Contemporary Sculpture and administration. The area of the institution includes also a part of the old farm buildings and 13-hectare landscape park. The whole complex is in the care of conservatory service and is inscribed into the register of historic buildings. (...)
The collection of the Museum includes works of the following authors:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sylwester Ambroziak, Janusz Bałdyga, Mirosław Bałka, Krzysztof Bednarski, Jan and Marcin Berdyszak, Jerzy Bereś, Bożenna Biskupska, Włodzimierz Borowski, Elżbieta and Emil Cieślar, Marek Chlanda, Jan Chwałczyk, Wanda Czełkowska, Zbigniew Dudek, Barbara Falender, Mirosław Filonik, Zbigniew Frączkiewicz, Wanda Gołkowska, Władysław Hasior,  Jerzy and Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz, Maria Jarema,  Jerzy Kałucki, Alfons Karny, Tomek Kawiak, Marek Kijewski, Grzegorz Klaman, Leszek Knaflewski, Piotr Kurka, Grzegorz Kowalski, Edward Krasiński, Jan Kucz, Kwiekulik, Natalia LL, Józef Łukomski, Teresa Murak, Adam Myjak, Tadeusz Mysłowski, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Antoni Porczak, Antoni J. Pastwa, Andrzej Pawłowski, Józef Robakowski, Adolf Ryszko, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Antoni Starczewski, Maciej Szańkowski, Andrzej Szewczyk,  Jan St. Wojciechowski, Magdalena Więcek-Wnuk, Marian Wnuk, Roman Woźniak, Krzysztof Zarębski, Barbara Zbrożyna, Gustaw Zemła and many others, including foreigners.’

Mariusz Knorowski — fragment

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