puSHEd BACK FOR LATER from the series TAKING STOCK

The featured paintings invite reflection on how the modes of art’s presentation and reception have been changing. The exhibition engages in a discussion with the shifting ontology of the work of art, as well as this ontology’s impact on the exhibition or non-exhibition of a given object. It demonstrates that the shifts taking place in art have diverted attention away from artistic work that programmatically engages with composition and material, its materiality, in a process of formal transmutation through which a new artwork is created. It also showcases how art for which aesthetic and contemplative reception is crucial, has often been pushed aside in favour of artistic production meant for an interactive or even purely conceptual experience.

Finally, the exhibition allows us to reflect on how the 21st century museum, realizing the utopia of progress, has sidelined the painting experiment, increasingly considered merely as a visual gadget devoid of current references or meaningful only insofar as it deals with progressive ideas.

For these reasons, the exhibition of works by women painters from the collection of The Muzeum Sztuki, including works chronically remaining in storage, received the title puSHEd BACK FOR LATER. There is still the fear, however, that art’s lack of effective self-regulation mechanisms may deepen this regression, and the works and their authors could be “pushed back” – FOREVER.

Zofia Artymowska,

Sandra Blow,

Agata Bogacka,

Emilia Bohdziewicz-Winiarska,

 Pauline Boty,

Janina Brosz-Włodarska,

 Agnieszka Brzeżańska,

Wanda Chodasiewicz - Grabowska (Nadia Léger),

 Anna Güntner,

 Romana Hałat,

 Doreen Heaton-Potworowska,

 Maria Jarema,

 Barbara Jonscher,

 Elzbieta Kalinowska-Motkowicz,

Katarzyna Kobro,

 Lena Kowalewicz,

 Janina Kraupe-Świderska,

 Margarete Kubicka,

 Ewa Kuryluk,

 Natalia LL,

 Danuta Lewandowska,

 Zofia Lipecka,

 Maria Ewa Łunkiewicz-Rogoyska,

 Jadwiga Maziarska,

 Margaret Mellis,

 Aniela Menkes,

 Teresa Miszkin,

 Magdalena Moskwa,

 Liga Pang,

 Helen Pashgian,

 Teresa Pągowska,

 Barbara Pniewska,

 R.H. Quaytman,

 Bridget Riley,

 Erna Rosenstein,

Eugenia Różańska,

 Teresa Rudowicz,

 Jadwiga Sawicka,

 Christine Smith,

 Judyta Sobel,

 Maria Sperling,

 Maria Stangret-Kantor,

 Hanna Ewa Stańska,

 Suzan Swale,

Barbara Szajdzińska-Krawczyk,

 Maria Szulczewska de Regibus,

 Franciszka Themerson,

 Teresa Tyszkiewiczowa,

 Teresa Tyszkiewicz,

 Ruth Ward (Ruth Roland),

 Hanna Zawa-Cywińska.

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