On Friday, October 26, 2024, the exhibition Geometry of Motion, curated by PhD Agnieszka Tes, who has collaborated with us many times, opened at the IMO gallery in Stary Saąz.

The exhibition is a review of the outstanding achievements of Polish abstraction of the geometric trend, juxtaposed with the prints of op-art pioneer Victor Vasarely. The idea that binds the exhibition together is movement, the possibility of evoking it, creating new spaces and opening up non-obvious ways of perception. Through the confrontation of diverse yet related artistic attitudes, we show the complexity and inexhaustible potential of a phenomenon that has been developing continuously since the second half of the 20th century. The groundbreaking factor in this case became Vasarely's interest in theories of perception and the study of the laws of visual cognitive acts. Operating in Paris, the Hungarian artist, basing his works on optical illusions, studied how the surrounding reality is constituted in the process of perception, how the eye registers movement in a still work of art or depth of space on a flat picture plane, how it perceives individual forms, establishing figure and background. For the Polish artists presented in the exhibition, this only provides a certain type of inspiration, but in general they depart from pure visualism in various ways, seeking their own ways of penetrating the problem of movement and space and the meanings of geometric art. The exhibition juxtaposes works in which arrangements and permutations of forms, figures, lines and colors evoke different impressions: zooming in or out pulsating, rippling, swirling, creating dynamic situations of perception.

The exhibition consists of more than 20 works of art made in various media of artistic expression, including works by Tamara Berdowska and Michał Misiak, among others, and paintings from the collection of the MOLSKI Art Foundation.

The exhibition runs until January 19, 2025.