Exhibitions & Events

Andrzej Wróblewski. I, one among many is an exhibition following the success of the 2024 presentation in Venice entitled “In the First Person” and organized by the efforts of the Starak Family Foundation as part of the official program accompanying the 60th Venice Biennale.

   This time the work of the artist who defined his generation is brought to the Polish public in yet another aspect. As a witness to history, an innocent boy at first, then an intellectual consciously reacting to his times, Andrzej Wróblewski created works that made a clear impact on subsequent decades of Polish art.

   Andrzej Wróblewski's paintings, from the harrowing Executions, through his unique form of modern realism, to the last works imbued with symbolism and existential tension and painted shortly before his premature death, have ever remained up to date. The Warsaw exhibition highlights the artist's signpost role in difficult, complicated times. His vision - combining personal experience, symbolism and engagement - becomes a testimony as well as a commentary to the present and inspires generations by generations. 

   At the Spectra Art Space exhibition we present Andrzej Wróblewski's paintings in dialogue with the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz whose early oeuvre set in the realities of the 1950s often provided inspiration for the painter. Różewicz's poetic sensibility, deeply rooted in wartime and postwar experiences, harmonizes with the intensity and existential message of Wróblewski's works. The two artists, in addition to their close acquaintance, shared a kindred reflection and an attempt to capture a shattered world in the process of reconstruction. In their work, they both expressed themselves directly, without needless decorum, deliberately not mitigating the content. The exhibition leads off with Wróblewski’s only surviving poem expressing an oppressive fear of being unable to capture in time the truth of the reality surrounding him.  

 

ANDRZEJ WRÓBLEWSKI
I one among many
28th December 2024 - 4th May 2025
Open daily | 10 am - 6 pm
Free admission.
Starak Family Foundation | Spectra Art Space
Bobrowiecka 6 | Warsaw