Shadow of Freedom — announcement of the exhibition
We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition 14th November 2018 at 6 pm. Free entry. Join us!
Curator: Marek Zieliński
Cooperatoration: Jan Trzupek
Artists
Paweł Althamer
Mirosław Bałka
Marek Chlanda
Karolina Grzywnowicz
Tadeusz Kantor
Martyna Kielesińska
Grzegorz Klaman
Kamil Kuskowski
Przemysław Kwiek
Zbigniew Libera
Krystyna Pasterczyk
Wojciech Prażmowski
Józef Robakowski
Jerzy Truszkowski
Michał Smandek
Radek Szlęzak
Mikołaj Szpaczyński
Piotr Zarębski
‘They were always fighting for something the bastards and if anyone dared say the hell with fighting it’s all the same each war is like the other and nobody gets any good out of it why they hollered coward. If they weren’t fighting for liberty they were fighting for independence or democracy or freedom or decency or honor or their native land or something else that didn’t mean anything. The war was to make the world safe for democracy for the little countries for everybody. If the war was over now then the world must be all safe for democracy. Was it? And what kind of democracy? And how much? And whose?’
Part from Dalton’s Trumbo drama Johnny Got His Gun
The exhibition Shadow of Freedom aims to look back at the past hundred years through the eyes of art. Included are depictions by artists from different generations. The audience can explore tales, myths and legends, close and remote ones, universal, as well as local issues from various perspectives — be it wistful memory, ironic distance or mystification. Bearing testimony to many a trauma, these artworks do not keep away from topics that were tabooed in the ‘legitimate history’. Indeed, this is a different account of the bygone decades, as it is completely devoid of the familiar bombast. The complexity of past events has been demonstrated not in the dazzling light, but through shadows — much more eye-friendly and able to catch nuances.
Curator: Marek Zieliński
Cooperator: Jan Trzupek
