Exhibition featured three eminent artists. In terms of their creative and intellectual pursuits, the works of Jadwiga Maziarska, Gertrude Goldschmidt (a.k.a. Gego) and Rosemarie Trockel stand apart from mainstream currents in the art world and the tendencies of their contemporaries.
This exhibition represented another, this time more intimate, presentation of works from the Grażyna Kulczyk Collection. The collection’s growth has been based on personal choices and is reflective of individual aesthetic preferences. The passion of the Collector is not limited by the canons imposed by critics. The Grażyna Kulczyk Collection is the result of a fascination with particular works and the exceptional personalities of particular artists.
This is the reason why it included works by such individualists as Maziarska, Gego or Trockel, who cannot be defined by any particular category in art history. Art critics are not always patient enough to notice artists who do not fit into the mainstream or who subtly break free of it, approaching trends at their own pace, taking a parallel route.
“Parallel Systems” was neither a thematic nor a retrospective exhibition, nor a series of three individual shows, for that matter. It served more as an “anecdotal” presentation that whetsted viewers’ appetite for knowledge and encouraged individual exploration, which were merely facilitated. The history of Maziarska, Gego and Trockel, was told not solely by offering these artists’ work to the viewer, but also by means of film screenings, lectures and numerous catalogs that have been made available in the Gallery for purposes of the show.
