Swiss landscapes. Tadeusz Wojnarski 1922 – 1999 (The Soul in the Mirror)

The Museum of Hunting and Riding (Muzeum Łowiectwa i Jeździectwa), part of the Łazienki Royal Palace in Warsaw, has curated a new exhibition of landscape paintings from the entire period of Wojnarski’s artistic activity. In my co-creation I tried to incorporate the aspect “The soul in the mirror image“. Already in the first year of his studies in Rome in 1946, my father received a decisive insight from Marian Bohusz Szyszko, his first professor of fine arts: “Every picture of me is not so much a picture of myself as a picture of myself. My self-portrait. It’s like a part of me. And only those who read a work of art in this way are on the right track to judge it correctly. The depth of a work of art is a picture of the depth of the soul of its creator.“ I had suggested the picture on the left as a poster. It was created in 1951 during my parents› honeymoon in Mallorca. The tree, bent by many fates during the war, is awakening to new life and looking optimistically to the future. My father’s most beautiful self-portrait. Finally, a Swiss motif was chosen, because the focus of the exhibition was not the biography, but Swiss landscapes. he exhibition was co-organised by the Swiss Embassy in Warsaw.

The exhibition comprised 50 exhibits. An exhibition catalogue was also published in Polish and English.