IF COLLECTION. POLISH POSTER ART

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IF COLLECTION. POLISH POSTER ART

POSTERS

03/02/2021

Adam Kilian, Lilla Weneda

08/11/2020

Jerzy Treutler, The Pathfinder

09/10/2020

Rafał Kapica, Freedom

18/07/2020

Hubert Hilscher, The Warsaw Autumn

02/07/2020

Karol Śliwka, Ciech

23/06/2020

Roman Cieślewicz, Broken Arrow

19/06/2020

Adam Młodzianowski, IIe Festival International de Musique Contemporaine

19/06/2020

Karol Śliwka, Pollena
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Why a paster?

IF Collection. Polish Poster Art – is a gallery of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Lodz

We collect, exhibit, write, tell stories – in short, we look after art so that it will benefit as much as possible. We cannot break free from the questions: “why such a gallery is run by philosophers”. Here are the most important answers:

  • because we have such a collection,
  • because so often philosophy argues in favour of the experience of art and its benefits that it is not worth resisting these arguments,
  • because there existed the Polish School of  Poster Art and its tradition still lives on, which is an aesthetically, theoretically and historically fascinating phenomenon,
  • because one still needs a poster in life,
  • because there are other arts behind posters, and still other arts behind them; to get to know one poster is often to experience almost everything,
  • because a “bad” poster can be a “very good” one, and therefore it gives food for thought to all who think they know what “good art” is.

WE HAVE A GOAL: Art in public space is a challenge that we should pay attention to and discuss. It would be beneficial for everyone to have this discussion shaped by public sphere. We understand public sphere as a situation of speech (in the form of a speech, written or otherwise recorded) that is articulated publicly and non-anonymously. We want to propagate our own opinions on the values of art in public space and submit these opinions to intersubjective reflection. Our aim is to popularize the art of Polish design and closer acquaint public with it. We want to exchange opinions and ideas about it to everybody in a comprehensive and accessible, yet strictly substantive way. We take into account different interpretations and points of view. The photos themselves are, in our opinion, not enough. The visual sphere itself does not speak clearly enough. Today the more difficult message is no longer competitive. That is why we want to exhibit, write and tell at the same time.

WE HAVE NO STRATEGY! We do not like combative and futurological rhetoric. We regard contact with original work as an irreplaceable auratic value, experiencing it as an undoubted privilege, and knowledge as a support in this pleasure.

Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk

KEY INFORMATION

What you need to know?

IF Collection. The Polish Poster Art consists of the following works (given in a chronological order), the active link means that we have already included a description of the work:

  • 1957, Cieślewicz Roman, Złamana Strzała
  • 1958, Młodzianowski Adam, Ile festival international de musique contemporaine
  • 1960, Cieślewicz Roman, Rozstanie
  • 1961, Jaworowski Jerzy, Koniec drogi
  • 1963, Kreütz-Majewski Andrzej, Orfeusz
  • 1965, Świerzy Waldemar, Król Roger
  • 1967, Świerzy Waldemar, Warszawska Jesień
  • 1968, Rumiński Tomasz, Przemysł
  • 1968, Bąkowski Stanisław, Spartakus
  • 1968, Rapnicki Janusz, Zjazd rodzinny
  • 1968, Szancer Jan Marcin, Sprzedana narzeczona
  • 1968, Urbaniec Maciej, Festiwal Folklorystyczny Ziem Nadwiślańskich
  • 1968, Żbikowski Maciej, Hrabina Cosel
  • 1969, Hanna Bodnar, Skąd przychodzisz
  • 1969, Hibner Maciej, Ruchome piaski
  • 1969, Świerzy Waldemar, Warszawska Jesień
  • 1969, Żbikowski Maciej, Kapryśne lato
  • 1970 circa, Janowski Witold (?), Ciech
  • 1970 circa, Śliwka Karol, Ciech
  • 1970 circa, Śliwka Karol, Pollena
  • 1970, Lenica Jan, Polske Surrealister
  • 1970, Treutler Jerzy, Mój pies Wulkan
  • 1970, Zelek Bronisław, Julia i Romeo
  • 1970 circa, Author's name unknown, Ciech
  • 1970 circa, Author's name unknown, Ciech
  • 1971, Andrzejewski Waldemar, Tajemniczy mnich
  • 1971, Dobiecki Iwo, Balety Polskie
  • 1971, Jerzy Treutler, Tropiciel śladów
  • 1971, Młodożeniec Jan, Il Maestro di Cappella
  • 1971, Urbaniec Maciej, Wieczór baletowy: Berlioz, Debussy,  Ravel
  • 1972, Celiński Zbigniew, Straszny dwór
  • 1972, Cieślewicz Roman, Cudowny mandaryn
  • 1972, Dobiecki Iwo, Córka źle strzeżona
  • 1972, Hilscher Hubert, Warszawska Jesień
  • 1972, Świerzy Waldemar, Odprawa posłów greckich
  • 1972, Urbaniec Maciej, Borys Godunow
  • 1973, Dobiecki Iwo, Etiudy baletowe
  • 1973, Dobiecki Iwo, Pożądanie
  • 1973, Dobiecki Iwo, Traviata
  • 1973, Dzikowska-Najder Janina, Opowieści Hoffmanna
  • 1973, Kreütz-Majewski Andrzej, Pietruszka
  • 1973, Pankiewicz Krzysztof, Wesołe kumoszki
  • 1974, Justyna Witold, Łódzkie Spotkania Baletowe
  • 1974, Lenica Jan, Wesele
  • 1974, Młodożeniec Jan, Chłopi
  • 1974, Rumiński Tomasz, Dzień Chemika
  • 1974, Sawka Henryk, Świat na księżycu
  • 1974, Staniewicz Edmund, Epitafium dla Juana
  • 1974, Urbaniec Maciej, Coppelia
  • 1975, Erol Jakub, Wąż
  • 1977, Neugebauer Jacek, Mareczku, podaj mi pióroi
  • 2003, Author's name unknown, Kobro
  • 2003, Shenk Tom, Kamień filozoficzny albo zaczarowana wyspa
  • 2003, Zieliński Chwalisław, Wesoła wdówka
  • 2005, Horowitz Ryszard, Poszaleli
  • 2005, Świerzy Waldemar, Filozofia po góralsku
  • 2005, Tarczyński Marian, Makbet
  • 2006, Nowosławski Paweł, Rozmowy z diabłem. Wielkie kazanie księdza Bernarda
  • 2007, Łabęcki Stanisław, Kolekcja sztuki XX i XXI wieku. Siła formalizmu
  • 2011, Author's name unknown, Małe formy grafiki
  • 2019, Kokoszka Jakub, Rozwieszam za trzech i nie narzekam
  • 2019, Wojciechowska Marika, Rutka
  • 2020, Puchalska Areta, Jak zostałam wiedźmą
  • 2020, Starzyńska Aleksandra, Wędrówka Nabu
  • 2020, Maciej Andrzejewski, Plakat to nie bajka
  • 2021, Waszczeniuk Zbigniew, Rozwijaj się. Wystawa plakatów filozoficznych

Originally the collection consisted of 60 works and we intended to create a description for each of them. We imagined that they would be a complete guide. However, our collection is still growing. We invite you to cooperate with us!
We reserve the right to correct and update texts. We improve and update, first of all, information on historical facts and bibliographical sources.
The authors can constantly improve and supplement the texts. We will inform you when the changes have been made.
We intend to add alternative descriptions to the interpretations already published. The fact that the work already has its description does not mean that it cannot have a different interpretation.

  • PLACE:

The building of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, the University of Lodz, 3/5 Lindleya St., the 3rd floor

  • CONTACT :

Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy and History
The University of Lodz
3/5 Lindleya St., 90-131 Lodz
Ph. (42) 635-61-35
Jędrzej Janicki: jedrekjanicki1994@gmail.com
Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk: wioletta.kazimierska@uni.lodz.pl

  • To visit the collection with a guide, please contact us in advance and make an appointment (the lecture rooms are not always available to visit).

 

We are happy to accept as volunteers everyone - in particular primary and secondary school students - interested in what we do. We need support in the following works:

  • archiving and cataloging our texts (remote work)
  • compiling data for indexes and bibliographies (remote work)
  • translating texts into English (remote work)
  • assembly and disassembly of exhibitions (next task awaits us on April)
  • research (we have a lot of puzzles to solve :-), which can end with writing your own text
  • designing folders and posters for our exhibitions

We offer:

  • to see the collection with a guide
  • to view our archive and meet the editors
  • training as a guide to the collection
  • help and guidance on art criticism and how to write about posters

czarno-biała twarz kobiety w okręgu

Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk

  • an aesthetitian & an art historian
  • she worries there are too many prejudices in the art world
  • she prefers single plates from Tułowice or Włocławek to complete services from …
  • she thinks that we are not obliged to rebuild castles from King Casimir the Great period, but we must save what we can
  • she has been looking after posters since he worked at the Institute of Philosophy (1998)
  • a sunday painter, an embroiderer, a seamstress

 

czarnobiałe zdjęcie mężczyzna przysłaniający głowę płytą winylową z twarzą

Jędrzej Janicki

  • a lover of heavy genres of rock and jazz, who usually listens to soulful blues
  • podcaster and a might-have-been guitarist
  • he considers The Brothers Karamazov to be a pinnacle of humanity
  • in his spare time on the bike or at the snooker table
  • an expert on taking bad decisions
  • would love to be like Jeremey Clarkson or at least drive his cars
  • highly appreciates his present studies, while his previous ones only so-so
  • brought up on footballers’ posters which he so passionately put up in his room – now is willing to replace them with Cassandre’s works

 

kobieta w garniturze trzymająca ramę obrazu będąc po drugiej jej stronie czarnobiałe

Jowita Mróz

  • philosophy graduate
  • she looks for unique and curiosities in the region
  • she neglects her spine while working at her desk
  • posters distracted her even during the most interesting lectures
  • she prefers Berg to Webern
  • she appreciates kitschy everyday items
  • she has a soft spot for black and white films by Scandinavian directors
  • she loves only Mediterranean cuisine more than Mediterranean architecture

 

OUR COLLABORATORS:

  • Anita Błażejewska
  • Marta Brewer
  • Aleksandra Brzostowicz
  • OLAF
  • Dawid Góras
  • Zofia Hałęza
  • Kacper Kaczmarek
  • Miriam Kobierski
  • Jakub Kokoszka
  • Janusz Maciaszek
  • Jakub Michalski
  • Piotr Piasek
  • Anna Ostrowska
  • Katarzyna Rozalska
  • Aleksandra Smaczyńska
  • Julia Sokołowska
  • Fryderyk Szymczak
  • Daria Wielgus
  • Aleksander Zakosztowicz

History of the Collection

Our posters were collected at the Institute of Philosophy by prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Pawłowski [1924–1996], logician, aesthetician, researcher and lover of contemporary art, author of an interesting aesthetic concept – panesthetism (see more here). However, when the professor worked with us, the posters were not displayed. Rolled up and hidden in a wardrobe, they got their chance when the Institute of Philosophy was moving from the famous tin barracks in Matejki to a new seat at st. Kopcińskiego 15/17.

The new place was empty. The then Director of the Institute, prof. dr hab. Aldona Pobojewska, thought that art should fill it. Thanks to her generosity, a group of students working in the Aesthetics Section of the Philosophers' Scientific Circle under the direction of dr hab. prof. University of Lodz, Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk, prepared a permanent exhibition in the hall and corridors of the Institute. It was presented in two parts: Polish School of Poster I and Polish School of Poster II. These exhibitions initiated other interesting initiatives related to art practiced by students, employees (sic!) and our friends: exhibitions, project activities, the Aesthetic Salon. Some also brought new posters, expanding our collection.

The current home of the Institute of Philosophy is the former building of the management of the Faculty of Sewerage and Waterworks (until recently also the seat of the Rectorate of the University of Lodz) at the intersection of Narutowicza and Lindleya streets, designed in its original part by Wiesław Lisowski. I guess we're lucky with the art. We moved here in 2017. Empty walls were waiting to be developed again. However, we rethought the matter of the collection. We decided to place the most valuable works in the new hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and History. prof. Ija Lazari-Pawłowska. We have her on our philosophy floor. The others were located in the halls and corridors of the institute space.

The current permanent exhibition I'm hanging it up for three and I'm not complaining was realized as part of the project classes Ethical and aesthetic challenges for the public sphere in the field of philosophy in the academic year 2018/2019. Here are the stages of our activities:

  • we tried to interest the authorities of the Faculty of Philosophy and History and the central authorities of the university in the collection, in this way we gained financial and conservation support,
  • in cooperation with the Directorate of BUŁ, we made a partial exchange of posters (taking into account the integrity of the collection of the University of Lodz, we donated copies that BUŁ did not have, and we obtained film posters that Prof. Tadeusz Pawłowski did not collect),
  • our collection was repaired and maintained in the BUŁ workshop,
  • we got acquainted with the method of storing and cataloging this type of works in the Archives of Documents of Everyday Life of the University Library,
  • we started to collect a bibliography, learn to recognize the features of the Polish School of Posters, create an exhibition scenario, write and tell stories,
  • some people are still interested in it…, maybe even more so.

It is a paradox that posters, in order to survive as long as possible, should lie in a dark drawer instead of calling and pleasing our eyes. We realize that. That is why we supplemented the university collection and used shaded places for our exhibition. What is supposed to lie, let it hang and serve those who need art in everyday experience.

Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk

Patron of the Collection

Tadeusz Pawłowski smiling

Tadeusz Pawłowski [1924–1996]

Professor Tadeusz Pawłowski was born in Warsaw, but he was educated in Łódź, where he undertook scientific work, among others in under the direction of Janina and Tadeusz Kotarbiński. Initially, he was employed at the Department of Logic, and in 1977 he established the Department of Aesthetics. First, he was interested in the methodology of the natural sciences, then the problems of creating and defining concepts in the humanities. At the beginning of the 1970s, he began to write about art, and over time he built his own aesthetic concept of panesthetism. He constantly referred to personal experience, which makes his the precise scientific apparatus immediately understandable, as if "organic" (which is not typical of aesthetic considerations, because they are often too speculative or exalted).

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Tadeusz Pawłowski smiling

EXIBITIONS

Contact

Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Lodz

St. Lindleya 3/5, 90-131 Łódź

tel./fax: (48) (42) 635-61-35/(29)

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RULES FOR USING PHOTOS

The poster - although it is usually a large-scale work and serving common, public use - is covered by copyright.
In accordance with the idea of the collection and the function of the portal, photos of the works are an essential component of the published materials. We use the principle of fair use. Our venture is non-commercial. Unless we have the consent of the authors, we publish reproductions that, due to the resolution and additional marking, are not suitable for use for other purposes, but nevertheless serve to popularize the works.

 

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