Warsaw Gallery Weekend at Królikarnia
During this year’s edition of Warsaw Gallery Weekend we invite you for two, specially prepared, events:
26 September (Saturday), 12am
Curator’s tour through the exhibition “Rhetorical figures. Warsaw’s architectural sculpture 1918-1970”.
What is architectural sculpture of the last century – the rhetorical figures in the title – for contemporary audience? Will the subsequent generations still perceive it as a tool of propaganda? Are the public orders today any different from those fifty years ago?
Guide: Alicja Gzowska, the curator of the exhibition
26 September (Saturday), 2pm
Discussion panel: “Bronze castings – aesthetics, ethics, legislation”
Guests: dr Mieczysław Kozłowski (artists, sculptor, caster, he manages the Artistic Castings Technique working space at the Department of Sculpture at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts), Maciej Sobkowiak (solicitor and collector, deals with, amongst others, intellectual property rights), Juliusz Windorbski (collector, art dealer, the president of the Desa Unicum board).
The discussion will be chaired by Agnieszka Tarasiuk, the programme curator.
Collaboration: The Department of Sculpture at the Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts, Desa Unicum auction house and Wejman Gallery.
Over the course of dozen years or so art market in Poland has been developing at a fast speed. Many new institutions have joined galleries operating in the business for many years, while art collecting is no longer an extremely elitist but quite a popular activity. Alongside new art collections there are collections of the 19th-century academicism, Art Nouveau or ancient art. Most of the long-collected family collections did not survive the historical mayhem of the 20th century: wars, border changes, nationalization. Some art works were appropriated by national museums while the great majority of antiques are today considered war damages. Recently, some works have been returned to the former owners’ inheritors, family collections are being restored, others still are created anew. More and more frequently old and new art belongs to private owners. The circle of people interested in the issues of technical and legal functioning of art works, such as restoration and copyright, is broadening. During the meeting at the Sculpture Museum we would like to discuss historical technique, spanning over 2 500 years, of bronze casting. The technique was immensely important in the ancient art. It was also utilized, to great effects, by great modernists of the 20th century, such as Henry Moore, as well as avant-garde artists including Tracey Emin and Homi Bhabha.
How is a cast bronze made? How should we evaluate the quality of its making? In what conditions can it be on display? What, in the case of bronze sculpture, is the original, copy and replica? When can the owner of a plaster model make its bronze casting? How can the inheritors of a sculptor’s copyrights control his or her heritage present in the market?
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