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Maria Jarema
The lecture takes a look at both Maria Jarema's interesting biography and the subsequent phases of her prolific work. The young Jaremian, one of eight siblings, leaves her hometown in the eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic to study sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Sensitive to social issues, she becomes involved in the leftist Cracow Group. In 1937 she receives a scholarship abroad: a trip to Paris forever changes her outlook on art. After World War II, she takes up painting. Her works uniquely depict rhythm, movement and spatiality. She opposes the decision of the communist authorities to introduce socialist realism, and fights for the recognition of metaphorical, abstract art. She dies of leukemia just before her 50th birthday, a few months before she manages to present her works at the 29th Venice Biennale.
Maria Jarema (1908-1958) artist and activist. Member of the Cracow Group, actress at the Cricot and Cricot 2 theaters. Brave and uncompromising, in the difficult times just after the end of World War II she postulated an international flow of artistic ideas, opposed the doctrine of socialist realism. One of the first avant-garde sculptors, she eventually devoted herself to painting, in which she developed an original language of artistic expression, bringing movement and rhythm to the fore.
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Agata Małodobry
Art historian and museologist. Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Krakow, where she deals with sculpture. She is interested in the impact of sculpture in social space and the place of Polish sculpture in the context of world art. Her other fascination is geometric abstraction. She is a curator of exhibitions and author of scientific and popularizing publications on 20th and 21st century art. A special place in her activity is occupied by the person and work of Maria Jarema.