Open AccessWHAT REMAINS AFTER THE JUBILEE YEAR OF POLISH AVANT-GARDE?
Author(s) -
Piotr Kosiewski
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0012.1964
Subject(s) - exhibition , avant garde , charter , art history , history , art , subject (documents) , visual arts , library science , archaeology , computer science
The year 2017 – a centenary of the “1stExhibition of Polish Expressionists” – was proclaimed as theJubilee Year of Polish Avant-garde. To mark the occasionover 200 events were organised by nearly 100 institutions.What is the outcome of it all? Has it changed the way theavant-garde movement and its role in Polish culture andtradition were perceived?Among accomplishments the jubilee year broughtabout is undoubtedly a number of exhibitions, theircatalogues as well as other publications devoted to theavant-garde. Unfortunately, not all the initiatives turnedout to be successful. Some of them though will be wellremembered, inter alia: the cycle of exhibitions preparedby the Art Museum in Łódź which were accompanied bycomprehensive and well edited catalogues; exhibitions:“Urban Revolt” at the National Museum in Warsaw, and“Avant-gardes of Szczecin” at the National Museum inSzczecin. One of the achievements is bigger amount ofvisual and textual resources available in Poland to explorethe subject of the avant-garde. The jubilee publicationsalso contained numerous documental materials that werenot well known before. Significant theoretical texts havebeen published as well: the extended edition of WładysławStrzemiński’s Theory of Vision, and the Athens Charter by LeCorbusier, the importance of which can not be emphasisedenough. The publication of relevant source materials mustalso be brought to attention; they came out as a series ofcatalogues by the Art Museum in Łódź, inter alia an ampleselection of articles written by Debora Vogel in the bookthat accompanied the exhibition “Montages. Debora Vogeland the New Legend of the City”. During the jubilee yeara question whether the avant-garde tradition resonatestoday was raised on many occasions. Two exhibitionspresented various attitudes towards the heritage of theavant-garde: mentioned above “Montages” exhibition inŁódź, and one in the International Cultural Centre in Kraków“Lviv, 24 June 1937. City, Architecture, Modernism”.