DOI Artikel:
Korduba, Piotr: Wystawy przedmiotów. Rozważania wokół niedawno otwartych ekspozycji rzemiosła artystycznego i wzornictwa w polskich muzeach
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.45167#0195
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PIOTR KORDUBA
EXHIBITIONS OF OBJECTS.
A REFLECTION ON THE RECENT DISPLAYS OF DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN
IN POLISH MUSEUMS
Summary
A number of large permanent and temporary exhibitions of decorative arts, design and industrial design have opened in Poland
over the last two years. They are varied but linked by the fact that they were all (with one exception) shown in major national museums.
Permanent displays included The Gallery of Old Masters. European and Old Polish Decorative Arts, Painting and Sculpture, 15th-18th
Century (in The National Museum in War saw) which opened in 2016, and The Museum of Applied Arts and The Gallery of Polish
Design (both in The National Museum in Poznan), inaugurated in 2017. Temporary exhibitions included Organizers of Life. De Stijl,
The Polish Avant-Garde and Design (at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, 25 November 2017 - 28 February 2018) and The other Side of
Things. Polish Design after 1989 (in the National Museum in Krakow, 6 April - 19 August 2018).
On the one hand, these exhibitions make a case for a full and legitimate participation of Poland in this type of pan-European
creativity, not as simple replication, but as participation with its own aesthetic and iconographic vision as well as functional adjustment.
On the other hand, the exhibitions invite us to ask the question, if the collections of objects are representative enough to justify this
claim? In the case of design exhibitions, there is no doubt that the decision to display it in national museums came about slowly, starting
around the year- 2000, as part of a wider process of establishing its position in the historical and academic sense within the modem
artistic output. The layout and character of the two types of exhibitions are not only the result of the state of the existing collections,
but of the tension between knowledge and display. In the case of design and craftsmanship, it is incompar ably less important than when
exhibiting art. This comes from the fact that in the former the experts’ perspective still dominates over more theoretical views.
transl. Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek
PIOTR KORDUBA
EXHIBITIONS OF OBJECTS.
A REFLECTION ON THE RECENT DISPLAYS OF DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN
IN POLISH MUSEUMS
Summary
A number of large permanent and temporary exhibitions of decorative arts, design and industrial design have opened in Poland
over the last two years. They are varied but linked by the fact that they were all (with one exception) shown in major national museums.
Permanent displays included The Gallery of Old Masters. European and Old Polish Decorative Arts, Painting and Sculpture, 15th-18th
Century (in The National Museum in War saw) which opened in 2016, and The Museum of Applied Arts and The Gallery of Polish
Design (both in The National Museum in Poznan), inaugurated in 2017. Temporary exhibitions included Organizers of Life. De Stijl,
The Polish Avant-Garde and Design (at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, 25 November 2017 - 28 February 2018) and The other Side of
Things. Polish Design after 1989 (in the National Museum in Krakow, 6 April - 19 August 2018).
On the one hand, these exhibitions make a case for a full and legitimate participation of Poland in this type of pan-European
creativity, not as simple replication, but as participation with its own aesthetic and iconographic vision as well as functional adjustment.
On the other hand, the exhibitions invite us to ask the question, if the collections of objects are representative enough to justify this
claim? In the case of design exhibitions, there is no doubt that the decision to display it in national museums came about slowly, starting
around the year- 2000, as part of a wider process of establishing its position in the historical and academic sense within the modem
artistic output. The layout and character of the two types of exhibitions are not only the result of the state of the existing collections,
but of the tension between knowledge and display. In the case of design and craftsmanship, it is incompar ably less important than when
exhibiting art. This comes from the fact that in the former the experts’ perspective still dominates over more theoretical views.
transl. Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek