Many Points of View

On June 19, at Dom w Alejach (Śródmieście Cultural Center) at 2 Aleje Jerozolimskie, the opening of the end-of-year Visual Arts exhibition by the DP1 and pre-DP2 groups took place. Titled “A Multitude of Perspectives,” the exhibition was prepared under the guidance of Olga Grudzińska and Katarzyna Gągol. Coordinator Tomasz Mazur introduced the audience to the world of art, referring in his opening remarks to the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling who argued that art, not science, is the highest form of cognition. Schelling believed that science breaks the world down into parts, while art is capable of putting it back together as a whole; that it is only through aesthetic experience that we experience the unity of the whole, and only then we do perceive the world as a coherent entity. The coordinator congratulated the artists on their courage and thanked them for their efforts, which allow the audience to contemplate the unity of reality. The director of the cultural center, as well as Ola Grudzińska and Katarzyna Gągol, also spoke, emphasizing how courageous it is to seek one’s own style and experiment with means of expression.

(text: Beata Ciacek, translated with DeepL.com; photos: Beata Ciacek)