Polska sztuka w Los Angeles
Polish Art In Search for Its Identity in Los Angeles?

Summary/Abstract: The program of the Polish Art Festival in Los Angeles included photography exhibitions, concerts, poetry reading and modern art exhibition at the Modern Art Gallery. The show was entitled “Polish Art Confrontations, 2003”. It was considered as one of the biggest Polish art shows organised abroad. Andrzej Kołodziej was the curator of the show. He decided to exhibit work by forty four Polish artists living in seven countries, including: Mirosław Rogala (New York), Gosia Kościelak (Chicago), Gosia Włodarczyk (Perth), Maria Fuks (Germany), Marek Grychczyński (San Francisco), Grzegorz Jakubowski (Paris), and others. Painters and graphic artists dominated the show. There were only a few pieces of sculpture exhibited in the gallery. The Confrontations in California attracted artists from such groups as “Krak”, “Emotionalism – In Tune with Nature”. The show in Los Angeles could be compared with the exhibition organised in Warsaw in 1991. Nevertheless, the critics agreed that both shows were different. The artists who showed their work in California represented different styles, from abstraction to surrealism, but the exhibition was organised according to consistent rules of harmony.

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