The exhibit “Encounter,” now on at the Jan Jerzy Pinzel Museum, displays contemporary plastic artworks by Warsaw Academy of Arts Professor Adam Myjak. It is the master’s first exhibit in Ukraine.
Adam Myjak has been an undeniable authority in the field of sculpture for over 50 years. His oeuvre has also had a considerable impact on the formation of contemporary Polish sculpture. A number of critics call him a poet of life and drama. When creating his sculptures, he goes outside the limits of classical art. His artworks bear a philosophy,
The exhibit shows about a dozen of Myjak’s sculptures made of wood, metal, and stone. They mostly portray human figures.
The exhibit is particular in that contemporary sculptures are located among the works of Jan Jerzy Pinzel (Johann Georg Pinsel), an unsurpassable master of 18th-century baroque sculpture. This was done to show continuity of the past and the present and to compare them in a sort of a dialog between the two epochs. The exhibit is to be the first in a series of “artistic dialogs” with Pinzel.
“It is very important to us that this museum is reviving and begins to function on a large scale. This is perhaps the first major exhibit here. We want maestro Pinzel to be contemporary rather than distant. We also plan to organize an artistic dialog between the works of Mykhailo Dzyndra and Jan Jerzy Pinzel. Nobody has ever attempted to compare them, but we will try to do so,” Taras Vozniak, director general of the Lviv National Borys Voznytsky Art Gallery, says.
The exhibit will remain open until May 14.
