Jerzy Nowosielski’s art is a unique synthesis of his fascination with Byzantine art, especially iconography, with the spirit of the avant-garde. The artist, associated with the Second Cracow Group and Tadeusz Kantor, developed his own individual style, drawing formally from surrealism and abstractionism, while at the level of meanings referring primarily to the universal human yearning for metaphysics. In his figurative representations, the recurring motif was most often the female body. All these ways of seeing, reproducing, and commenting on the world also ran through the works of other artists who, like him, experienced the trauma of World War II, as well as those born later. The exhibition, organised on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, is an attempt to place his work in the broader context of Polish art of the second half of the 20th century and invite viewers to the common act of seeing, and thus creating.

Institutions that lent items for the exhibition are:

• Kraków, Starmach Gallery
• Kraków, National Museum in Kraków
• Radom, Jacek Malczewski Museum
• Radom, Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”
• Warsaw, National Museum in Warsaw
• Warsaw, Poster Museum in Wilanów, a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw
• Warsaw, Starak Collection,
  and private collections

Artist featured in the exhibition: Maria Anto, Jan Berdyszak, Henryk Błachnio, Marian Bogusz, Tadeusz Brzozowski, Tomasz Ciecierski, Edward Dwurnik, Stanisław Dróżdż, Wojciech Fangor, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Stefan Gierowski, Zofia Gutkowska (Nowosielska), Zbylut Grzywacz, Władysław Hasior, Aleksandra Jachtoma, Maria Jarema, Tadeusz Kantor, Łukasz Korolkiewicz, Janina Kraupe-Świderska, Jerzy Krawczy, Piotr Kurka, Ewa Kuryluk, Alfred Lenica, Leszek Lewandowski, Zbigniew Makowski, Jadwiga Maziarska, Aldona Mickiewicz, Kazimierz Mikulski, Eugeniusz Mucha, Józef Nowak, Jerzy Nowosielski, Józef Nowak, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Teresa Pągowska, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Erna Rosenstein, Jadwiga Sawicka, Jacek Sempoliński, Jerzy Skarżyński, Kajetan Sosnowsk, Henryk Stażewski, Jonasz Stern, Jan Tarasin, Leon Tarasewicz, Tomasz Tatarczyk, Jerzy Tchórzewski, Danuta Urbanowicz, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Ryszard Winiarski, Rajmund Ziemski.

The exhibition is available at the Royal Castle in Warsaw from December 5, 2023 to March 10, 2024.

More information: https://www.zamek-krolewski.pl/en/aktualnosc/1953-art-seeing-nowosielski-and-others