Polish avant-garde art in Madrid
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
28.04.2017 14:12
A hundred and fifty works by Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński are being shown at an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Katarzyna Kobro. Kompozycja przestrzenna (4), 1929. Oil and metal. Photo: Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
The exhibition will include sculptures, spatial compositions, drawings, paintings, and functional projects by the eminent avant-garde couple, whose careers spanned the 1920s and 1930s up to the post-World War II period.
The “Katarzyna Kobro & Władysław Strzemiński. Avant-garde Prototypes” (“Kobro & Strzemiński. Prototipos vanguardistas”) exhibition was created in co-operation with the Museum of Art in Łódź, central Poland, and is the most significant foreign exposition of the couple’s achievements to date.
Works are on loan from the Łódź collection, as well as from the National Museums in Warsaw and Kraków, the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, in addition to Polish and foreign private collections.
Initially inspired by Russian constructivism, Kobro and Strzemiński’s avant-garde interests were later formed by neo-plasticism and the German Bauhaus movement.
Both artists initiated the first presentation of Polish constructivism in Vilnius in 1923, and were co-founders of principal groups of the Polish avant-garde: Blok in 1923-1926, Praesens (1926-1930), and a.r. (1929-1936).
Playing an active part in the life of international art communities, they maintained contact with artists such as Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp and Kazimir Malevich.
The exhibition runs until 18 September. (rg/pk)
Source: Poland.pl, Rzeczpospolita