Moderna. Industry+crafts

Modernism, colloquially called “modernism” in the exhibition title, is a way of thinking. The balance of form and function, the sincerity of material, the combination of repetitive industrial production with artisanal, elaborate detail. This collaboration between designer and craftsman and industry seemed to the curators of the exhibition to be the most important characteristic of “modernist” thinking that we can observe in contemporary design.
The intention of the exhibition’s curators is to revive the interwar tradition of cooperation between Polish designers, craftsmen and industry, so characteristic of Polish modernism, and especially of Stalowa Wola – a modernist city built in the 1930s according to the assumptions we have chosen for the exhibition: balance of form and function, sincerity of material, combination of repetitive industrial production with craftsmanlike, worked-out detail.