Andrzej Wróblewski’s exhibition in Spectra Art
Space is a follow-up to the idea taken up by Starak Foundation in MASTERS
series, which was inaugurated with a remarkable display of works by Tadeusz
Kantor. The purpose of this significant cultural project is to present works by
the most outstanding Polish artists – masters, professors and forerunners of
the post-war avant-garde - the works of whom constitute a significant part of
Anna and Jerzy Starak’s art collection.
Andrzej Wróblewski is counted among the most prominent masters of the Polish art of the latter half of the 20th century. His lyrically tragic and metaphoric oeuvre has continued to exert a strong impact and appealed to the contemporary audience, at the same time offering one of the most relevant and faithful accounts of the difficult period when the works were created. Andrzej Wróblewski developed an individual and evocative manner of imaging, particularly experiences of death and atrocities of war, and as a consequence shifted the traditional meaning of the term of ‘realism’. Bold and uncompromising, a demiurge of contemporary figurative art, enshrouded in a legend of his premature death, he has moulded successive generations of Polish artists, who consider him on a par with giants of worldwide art of that period.
Andrzej Wróblewski in Starak Collection