An exhibition of artists teaching at the Wroclaw Academy of Arts, was part of a broader project presenting the work of pedagogues from two art academies – those in Wroclaw and Poznan – alternately in the two cities.
The exchange in question took place on the premises of the Stary Browar gallery, where the art from Wroclaw was presented in November, and the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture, where, in turn, artists from the Poznan University of Fine Arts had an exhibition of their work in December. The project was inspired and set in motion thanks to the strong will of both academic societies to organize a presentation of their colleagues’ art in the place where they live.
The two academic communities, despite being geographically located close to each other and maintaining frequent and close personal contacts, have so far remained somewhat distant from one another, unaware of what is going on “there”. So, bearing in mind all the things they have in common: their specific school profile, their up-to-date, broad educational offer, the output of their staff consisting to a large extent of eminent artists of various generations and, finally, the prestige of both schools – both sides agreed that this sort of exhibition was the perfect “thing to do”.
When we added to it different approaches to technique, different traditions and the unique specificity of each of the two art circles (as art schools never develop in isolation nor grow out of nowhere), we suddenly arrived at two very interesting propositions – two exhibitions that might have seemed similar in many respects, yet turned out to be completely different in the end.
Andrzej Klimczak – Dobrzaniecki