Exhibition

The Collection. A Mirror of Time

30.08.2019 - 27.10.2019

Scenario and exhibition design: Anna Król Cooperation: Monika Pawłowska
Mirrors can only work with whatever light they are given, and yet mirrors can show us things anew. […] works of art can reveal realities that had otherwise lain unseen, that they can act as frames for the truth.
(Julian Bell, Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, 2007)

In 2019, to mark twenty-five years of its existence, the Manggha Museum has prepared a number of exhibitions offering a broad view of the institution’s own collection, developed consistently since its foundation. At present this interesting and diverse assembly comprises over two thousand items – works by artists from Japan and other Far Eastern countries and from Europe.

The fourth exhibition in the series The Collection, entitled A Mirror of Time, showcases another important part of the Museum’s own collection. Much like ukiyo-e woodblock prints some centuries before, paintings by artists of the WPROST Group – Maciej Bieniasz and Jacek Waltoś – as well as their master and mentor Adam Hoffmann were a mirror of the reality of their country, the People’s Republic of Poland, in the 1960s and 1970s. These are complemented with metaphorical, allusive mirrors of time – works by Aliska Lahusen, Stanisław Cukier, Tomasz Tatarczyk, Adam Brincken, Kyoko Kumai, and Jacek Sempoliński.

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