WSZYSTKIE PORY PEJZAŻU
19.01 - 09.04.2023
IMO GALERIA, STARY SĄCZ
Otwarcie: 19.01.2023
Curated by:
Agnieszka Tes
The starting point for the exhibition “All the Seasons of the Landscape. Contemporary Polish Painting” is a question about the condition of the landscape, its specificity and place on the pluralist map of art, as well as its role in times of excess of visual stimuli and of prevelance of image recording techniques. The exhibition takes into account significant tendencies in this classic genre successfully created nowadays, presents a multitude of creative attitudes and approaches to the subject. By bringing together the works of recognized artists belonging to different generations and coming from various backgrounds, we show the vital potential of landscape painting and the influence of 20th-century trends in art on its evolution. Not only the legacy of traditional realism, but also the influence of abstraction, both in its meditative and expressive variations, is clearly visible in contemporary landscape interpretations. What also seems significant is the return to beauty and contemplation, which inspires the viewer to rediscover the beauty of the world, being at the same time an excellent lesson in looking.
The exhibition includes the artworks of: Katarzyna Adamek-Chase, Stanisław Baj, Rafał Borcz, Krzysztof Klimek, Olga Pawłowska, Łukasz Patelczyk i Grażyna Smalej.