Gallery of the Art Exhibition Office in Jelenia Gora, 1 Dluga St., Jelenia Gora / Works from the collection of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane / Exposition from September 2 to October 30, 2022.
"Wladyslaw Hasior. Creating the World" is a cross-sectional exhibition of one of the most extraordinary Polish artists at the BWA Gallery in Jelenia Gora. Wladyslaw Hasior will be presented in Jelenia Gora as a versatile artist. The presentation of his objects and sculptures created from ready-made and unnecessary objects, as well as unusual photographs - a selection from his photographic notebooks - will be an unusual event in Jelenia Gora and the Lower Silesia region. The exhibition will feature, among others, the artist's most famous realizations: "Assumption", "Christmas" 1971, "Embroidering Character". 1976.
Wladyslaw Hasior created his artistic visions from selected cultural debris, and the results of his work are among the more disturbing in world art. From the crumbs of reality he constructed unusual spaces in the form of paintings or glass display cases filled to the brim with surreal juxtapositions from the world of matter. Their provenance can be found in the tradition of village nativity scenes, shrines or processional banners. In these assemblages by Hasior, as in cabinets of curiosities, the theater of meanings, the richness of his metaphors and symbols, has been enclosed.
Sometimes in the real world he found places so peculiar that he considered them part of his vision. This happened, as it were, "on the way", during his numerous trips around Poland and the world. He annexed the images of reality that interested him for himself and photographed them. He searched for exceptional spaces, lasting, as it were, on the fringes of ordinariness, transcending conventionality and mediocrity. He found many of them in the world of communist Poland. The places he recorded on film existed in the reality available to him, although it would seem that their existence is based on his own sense of time and space, on the margins of fantasy and art. Władysław Hasior recorded not only his fascination with reality, but also the documentation of his own artistic activities and the works of other artists. In photography he used light-sensitive diapositive material, and slides were educational material for him, which he used in the form of presentations during meetings with young people and guests of his Gallery in Zakopane. Twenty thousand diapositives, called the Photographic Notebook, have been preserved to our days. All of Wladyslaw Hasior's works and scans of the diapositives are on loan from the Tatra Museum in Zakopane from Hasior's Gallery.
Joanna Mielech - curator of exhibitions
*source: zpaf.pl