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Art and Heritage in Central Europe<\/h1>

“Maria Jarema. Cracked modernism” sheds new light on one of the most original figures of Polish interwar and post-war modern art. Maria Jarema studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating in 1935. Early on, she joined a politically engaged avant-garde community adamant in rejecting academic norms. In 1933, was one of the founding members of the First Krak\u00f3w Group \u2013 a platform of key significance to the emerging modernist generation. In the years 1934\u20131939, she also worked with Cricot, an experimental theatre run by her brother J\u00f3zef; she was stage and costume designer, puppeteer, and actress.<\/p>\n

From early days of\u00a0her artistic path, Jarema positioned herself within international modernism, adopting its\u00a0shared language of\u00a0post-Cubist abstraction and\u00a0drawing on\u00a0Surrealism and\u00a0Expressionism. In\u00a0the postwar period, she\u00a0demanded artistic freedom, refusing to\u00a0submit to\u00a0the dictates of\u00a0Socialist Realism and\u00a0going into internal exile until 1954. Combining the\u00a0surrealist focus on\u00a0corporeality and\u00a0self-expression with a\u00a0pursuit of\u00a0the formal autonomy of\u00a0abstract art, Jarema began experimenting with the\u00a0monotype technique in\u00a01949. The\u00a0technique enabled her\u00a0to articulate the\u00a0concept of\u00a0selfhood as\u00a0totality, and\u00a0the impossible, fragmented, cracked ambit of\u00a0multiple aggressions, within and\u00a0without.<\/p>\n

The curators (\u00c9ric de Chassey, Natalia Sielewicz) describe the idiom she developed as \u201ccracked modernism.\u201d The artist\u2019s work can be read as an exploration of the various situations in which the body and subject find themselves: from the experience of the individual, through relationships between two people and the family, to functioning within a broader community. The exhibition is arranged according to this escalating scale\u2014single, doubles, family, multitude\u2014showing how social tensions and processes of fragmentation and rupture of the subject emerge in representations of the self. It also presents works by Polish, French, Swiss, and Italian artists with which she was in a conflicted dialogue.<\/p>\n

The exhibition presents works from all periods of Maria Jarema\u2019s artistic career. For the first time in the history of exhibition-making, “Cracked Modernism” also includes nearly the artist\u2019s entire personal library, comprising exhibition catalogues, volumes of poetry, artists\u2019 portfolios, and periodicals\u2014materials collected during her three extended stays in Paris, exchanged with friends in Poland, or given to her by her brother J\u00f3zef. These holdings help to outline the intellectual and artistic biography of an uncompromising artist, ceaselessly hungry for experience and intellectual stimulation, who died prematurely at the age of fifty.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is available at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from 20.03 to 28.06.2026.
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