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The
"Nowa" Gallery in Poznań
In the recently increasing
esthetic chaos of exhibition proposals whose effect is a shameful and
generally tiresome atmosphere of scandal from time to time (dragging in
for good measure the authorities, media as well as the taxpayer willingly
or unwillingly, milked by institutions of public culture) it is with ever
greater attention that I look at small, generally private galleries.
It happens that without lowering standards they present important art
that is sought, not to mention avant-garde, thus finding the client-viewer
who (and this also occurs) is helped in making contact with a work of
art. These really good private galleries, as one can imagine, are few
and the reasons are very banal though important - money. It is difficult
therefore at the same time to maintain a high level of exhibitions, teach
and persuade people to buy good art, find sponsors, stroke artists and
make them feel valued, publish professional catalogues and finally pay
the rent and ensure one's keep. The impossible is however not always that
hard, to which testifies the enterprise of Katarzyna Braniecka's Poznań
gallery at 7 Padarewskiego Street. Despite limited possibilities, enforced
by relatively small space and the necessity of self-funding, the artistic
milieu as well as a wide circle of art lovers wait with interest for every
subsequent exhibition proposal.
This
month "Poznańska Galeria Nowa" once again prepared a splendid
exhibition. In the host Górków Palace (Archeological Museum) collaborating
with the gallery, a large display of work by world famous Czech artist
Milan Kniżak continues whilst the beautiful basement of the gallery at
Paderowskiego street invites viewers now to see the work of brilliant
Polish graphic artists. The exhibition, "Calendar, graphic art and
drawing in 13 scenes" presents the process of creating applied art:
that of a wall calendar. 
The
artist Krzystof Cybulski, the originator of the project invited well known
Polish ar- tists to collaborate. He proposed to each that an illustration
be done in any given technique within a month. The company Ecco-Papier
came to the aid by publishing the calendar "Contemporary Polish Graphic
Art". The sponsor individually matched the paper type, underlining
nuances in the work, character as well as artistic merits of every piece
in the reproduction of lithographs, plaster prints, lino prints, plates
as well as monotype and computer techniques. The splendid effect of this
marriage of art and technique was the creation of a unique work offering
the pleasure of everyday contact with ordinary subjects to a great degree
determined by function and design. 
The
exhibition in the "Nowa" gallery is presenting work that is
not always identical to that of the calendar though these are the works
of the same artists: Janis Ackerman, Gregory Banaszkiewicz, Krzysztof
Cybulskie, Beata Eliasik, Stefan Ficner, Paweł Frąckiewicz, Zbigniew Gorlak,
Alina Jackiewicz-Kaczmarek, Andrzej Kalina, Zbigniew Kosmala, Tadeusz
Siara, CzesławaTumielewicz, Ewa Zawadzka.
The variety of presented work, as a reflection of the daily poetry of
their own working experience as well as individual preferences of each
of the invited artists' style means that the exhibition of 13 works is
viewed carefully with an increasing intensity of experience. The effect
of composition is not inconsiderable here (clear and comprehensible but
not devoid of spice as usual) as proposed by the owner and program head
of the gallery, Katarzyna Braniecka.
In total confidence I encourage all to view this display that will be
open to the 15th of March this year.
Joanna Dziubkowa