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June 2011
BRUSSELS. DIVIDED THROUGHOUT the 19th century, occupied during the Second World War, and subsequently under the Soviet yoke for decades, Poland became a democracy in 1989. In this wounded country, victim of a succession of oppressive regimes, there developed a flourishing culture that gave expression, down the centuries, to a spirit of resistance to any order imposed from outside. Via the absurd and the fantastic, Polish artists reacted to the chaos of the real world with art imbued with a spirit of resistance, not in order to flee reality, but with a view to reconstructing it. The exhibition will show the work of internationally renowned contemporary artists, including Miroslaw Balka, Monika Sosnowska, and Wilhem Sasnal. Their works will be juxtaposed with seminal Polish works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Seeing these works side by side brings home just how deeply rooted the exploration of the fantastic and the irrational is in Polish art.

Curators : David Crowley, Zofia Machnicka, Dr Andrzej Szczerski

Exhibition organised as part of I, CULTURE-the International Cultural Programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council
The Power
of Fantasy
Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland
Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels
24 June - 18 September
Olaf Brzeski, Dream - Spontaneous combustion, 2008.

Olaf Brzeski, Dream - Spontaneous combustion, 2008.
Courtesy of the Czarna Gallery (Warsaw, Poland)

Józef Mehoffer. Strange Garden 1903.

Józef Mehoffer. Strange Garden 1903.
 oil on canvas 217 x 208 cm National Museum, Warsaw

Zofia Kulik. The Splendor of Myself I 1997.

Zofia Kulik. The Splendor of Myself I 1997.
 182 x 152 b/w multiple exposure photograph collection of DG Bank

Wilhelm Sasnal. Cracow-Warsaw 2006.

Wilhelm Sasnal. Cracow-Warsaw 2006.
 55x70cm oil on canvas courtesy of artist and Foksal Gallery Foundation

Katarzyna Józefowicz. Cities 1989-92.

Katarzyna Józefowicz. Cities 1989-92.
Sculpture private collection

Robert Kua Mirowski. ‘D.O.M.’ 2004

Robert Kua Mirowski. ‘D.O.M.’ 2004
Installation Foksal Gallery Foundation

Andrzej Wróblewski Execution VIII / Rozstrzelanie VIII

Andrzej Wróblewski Execution VIII / Rozstrzelanie VIII
130 x 199 cm oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw

Jakub Julian Ziólkowski. Great Battle under the Table 2006

Jakub Julian Ziólkowski. Great Battle under the Table 2006
 190 x 165 Zabludowicz Coll. Jakub Julian

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