Porozmawiajmy o kobietach. Schulz, Witkacy, Gombrowicz i inni
Let’s Talk about Women. Schulz, Witkacy, Gombrowicz et al.

Summary/Abstract: The Let’s Talk about Women... exhibition at the Tatra Museum in Zakopane should have been open only to members of the public aged over 18. Instead, it became a vacation joke, a discourse about the women of a number of outstanding artists: Schulz, Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Makuszyński, Lebenstein, Sroka… I looked at women worshipped, demanding constant homage, and followed closely by timid Bruno Schulz or those situated alongside Gombrowicz: emancipated and modern doctors’ wives from Wilcza Street, portrayed in Oligofrenie by Grzegorz Moryciński. In turn, the “bathing paintings” by Jacek Sroka are unique, grotesque paraphrases of the eternal motif of the female bather. The complicated love life of Witkacy was illustrated with magnificent photograms of the assorted ladies associated with this artist, borrowed from the collections of Lech Okołowicz and with professional glossa by Jan Gondowicz. The episode of an encounter with a she-bear described by Witkacy in Pożegnanie jesieni inspired the authors of the exhibition to show a designate of the story – a bear in an apiary, on show in the Museum collections. The culmination point of the exhibition was a display of paintings by Jacek Sroka, a contemporary Savonarola confronting ideological feminism. One of his works features immediately above some generous female buttocks an image of Che Guevara, the ultimate revolutionary icon.

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