"Wladyslaw Wincze. Interiors" is an exhibition presenting the work of one of the most important Polish interior designers of the 20th century. The cross-sectional exhibition of designs and prototypes of furniture, interiors, decorations and drawings can be seen at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw until May 31 this year.
The exhibition, presented at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, brings closer the somewhat forgotten work of Wladyslaw Wincze - member of the Warsaw Artists' Cooperative "Ład", founder and long-time dean of the Faculty of Interior Design at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Despite the important position held by Wladyslaw Wincze among the group of domestic artists active both before and after the war, it is only in recent years that his work is becoming the subject of research interest and the subject of in-depth scientific analysis. It has also been several decades since the time of the two most important exhibitions presenting the artist's work: a retrospective at the Museum of Architecture in 1979 and an exhibition organized after Wincza's death at the BWA Dizajn Gallery in 1994.
The exhibition includes furniture prototypes and drawings
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The exhibition is based on two important places for Winczy related to his artistic career and personal life. As he wrote himself, he remained "suspended between the cities" of - Warsaw and Wroclaw. The first part of the exhibition deals with the pre-war period: his studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, his activities in the Artists' Cooperative "Ład" and his cooperation with Olgierd
Szlekys under the banner of the "Author's Company." On display are, among others, a collection of drawings depicting Winczy's reconstructed pre-war furniture realizations, dating mainly from the 1930s, and photographic documentation of interior design realizations made before the outbreak of war. From the period of the "Author's Company", however, come interior designs and sets of residential furnishings, such as louvered furniture, the Sarenka seat and the so-called Ladovsky chariot.
The exhibition entitled. , "Wladyslaw Wincze. Interiors"
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The second part of the exhibition deals with the post-war work centered around the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, including the establishment and development of the didactic concept of the Interior Design Department. From this period come designs of functional interiors and furniture for industrial production, as well as competition design works for the interiors of Finnish houses in Upper Silesia. Important material forming the narratives of the exhibition are numerous photographs and Wincze's unpublished memoirs collected in the form of manuscripts and typescripts.
"Wladyslaw Wincze. Interiors"
12.12.2019 - 31.05.2020
Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, 5 Bernardyńska St.
Curator: Tomasz Mikołajczak, PhD
Exhibition arrangement: Jacek Kos
Visual identification: Marta Płonka
More information on the website of the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw.
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