The last room of the Gallery of Polish Painting and Sculptur

The last room of the Gallery of Polish Painting and Sculpture contains an exhibition of works by members of the "Wprost" Group, which was established in Krakow in 1966. It was made up of Zbylut Grzywacz, Maciej Bieniasz, Leszek Sobocki and Jacek Waltoś. They were all focused on commenting on contemporary reality with simultaneous reference to the work of Andrzej Wróblewski. In the trend known as new figuration, the model appears as a symbol of pessimism and loneliness, particularly evident in the paintings of Janusz Przybylski and Antoni Fałat. On the other hand, the work of Edward Dwurnik, who captures the atmosphere of urban, socio-political reality, has a cartoonishly naïve character. City life is visualised through the photorealism of Łukasz Korolkiewicz and Andrzej Sadowski.The new expression that has been developing in Poland since the beginning of the 1980s has provided the impetus for a different, more daring look at art and everything around it and us. The artists grouped in the so-called 'Gruppa' - Ryszard Grzyb, Włodzimierz Pawlak and Jarosław Modzelewski - created paintings of strong, decisive colour and gesture with references to the social situation of Poland at the time. The paintings are complemented by sculptures by Jacek Waltos, Sylwester Ambroziak and Olgierd Truszyński.