Exemplary city: Stalowa Wola
EXEMPLARY CITY: STALOWA WOLA
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, Workshop Gallery, 17 Hutnicza St.
November 10 – 29, 2013
The 75th anniversary of Stalowa Wola is an excellent opportunity to present the city’s beginnings in a different way than before. The exhibition will show elements of pre-war furnishings of Stalowa Wola interiors in an original arrangement, referring to ship architecture. Furniture and trinkets will take on a deeper dimension through the accounts of the city’s former residents and their descendants. People who used these items, surrounded themselves with them and associate their memories with them, created an extraordinary history of the city, which the creators of the exhibition want to tell anew.
This will also be the only opportunity to see Rafal Malczewski’s watercolor entitled Stalowa Wola, coming from private collections, painted during the artist’s stay in our city in 1938.
We will also present elements of representative and office furnishings of the former Southern Works. Among others, in the famous Thonet company, the Stalowa Wola factory ordered avant-garde bent furniture set in the lobby and offices.
Why an “exemplary city”?
Stalowa Wola, the youngest child of the Second Republic, is one of the few European cities built from scratch in the 1930s. Young Polish architects and urban planners, inspired by modern design trends, had a unique opportunity here to not only put their vision of a functional, comfortable and beautiful city on paper, but to realize it in its entirety. The creators of the exhibition decided to emphasize this very aspect of city creation in the exhibition.
The exhibition is accompanied by an animation for children entitled Become a Designer, presented on an interactive panel, which will combine knowledge of the history of Stalowa Wola with passion and creativity in creating their own interior designs.
The presented exhibition is a culmination and summary of many years of research and spectacular discoveries of the employees of the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola. In addition, it takes up the important subject of underestimated values of architecture of the 1930s in Stalowa Wola and their protection.
Exhibition location: Warsztat Gallery, Stalowa Wola, 17 Hutnicza St.
Curator: Aneta Garanty
Exhibition open: Mon. 8-15, Tues. 8-18, Wed., Thurs., Fri. 8-15, Sun. 4-7pm (Saturdays closed)
More information: Aneta Garanty, tel. 15 844 85 56 ext. 11
