Rio de Janeiro 2016

DESIGN DIALOG POLAND BRAZIL
MAM RIO / MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
4.06-3.07.2016

The exhibition is a perverse commentary on the phenomenon of „national” design – in this case, Polish and Brazilian. The curators decided to select some of the most distinctive objects, which had been recently regularly shown in exhibitions of design. The key choices were not a subjective assessment by the curators, but made with indisputable data: the sheer number of exhibitions in which individual authors had their objects shown.

Seeking patterns that have appeared in recent years, the curators of the design exhibitions, Ewa Solarz, Magda Kochanowska and Gabriel Patrocinio identified five types of objects that were most often exhibited. These included furniture, glass, ceramics, traditional folk motifs and innovation. Each of the five categories is important to both Polish and Brazilian design.

The selected objects were to be a central part of the presentation. Nevertheless, they were merely the starting point for the creation of the exhibition. It was a unique set of posters from the 1960s and 70s, which at the time had the task of promoting Poland as a tourist destination, that changed the focus of the exhibition. These „Polish tourist posters”, described more in-depth (in the catalog) by Izabela Iwanicka from the Poster Museum in Wilanow, provoked the curators to reflect on how Poland – and Brazil – now create their images.

The presentation of “Dialogo Design: Polônia Brasil” reveals a set of 20 posters. Some of them belong to the world-famous Polish School of Posters and, among the authors, include Waldemar Świerzy and Henryk Tomaszewski. All historical works come from the collection of the Poster Museum in Wilanow.

Especially for the occasion of the exhibition organized in Brazil, new graphic designs were created – posters by five Polish and five Brazilian graphic designers. Their theme is once again promotion – Poland and Brazil.

Graphic designs – the historical and the contemporary – together with selected works – form a strong set which is the heart of the story in the design of these two distant countries. The exhibition is open to different interpretations and does not provide ready-made answers.

Complementing the exhibition was a multimedia presentation, showing a wider range of Polish and Brazilian projects in the aforementioned five categories of products.

CURATORS: Magda Kochanowska, Gabriel Patrocinio, Ewa Solarz
ORGANIZER: Culture.pl
COOPERATION: The Spirit of Poland
PRODUCTION: Monika Brauntsch, Weronika Rochacka Gagliardi
EXHIBITION DESIGN: Dorota Kabała, Krystian Kwieciński
VISUAL IDENTIFICATION: UVMW
THE TEAM OF ADAM MICKIEWICZ INSTITUTE:
Barbara Krzeska, Dorota Kwinta, Karolina Babij, Mirosława Kopka, Karolina Małaczek, Katarzyna Mitrović, Iwona Łopacińska, Nitzan Reisner
TRANSLATIONS: Aleksandra Pluta, Alessandro Gagliardi, Soren Gauger

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
Poster Museum in Wilanów
Museu de Arte Moderna,
Rio de Janeiro
Museu Nacional, Brasilia
Casa Sanguszko

PARTNERS:
The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brasilia
Consulate general of the Republic of Poland in Curitiba
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Escola Superior de Design Industrial (ESDI)
Instituto Europeo di Design (IED Rio)
Centro Carioca de Design (CCD)
Universidade de Brasilia (UnB)
wall-being & Design Supplier

DESIGNERS
The products were divided into five categories:

FURNITURE
Vzór
Furf Design

GLASS
Agnieszka Bar
Jader Almeida

CERAMICS
Alicja Patanowska
Pellanda-Ecker & Holaria

TRADITION
Kosmos Project
Sergio Matos

INNOVATION
Zieta Prozessdesign
Domingos Tótora

POLISH AND BRASILIAN CONTEMPORARY POSTERS

POLISH DESIGNERS:
Robert Czajka
Małgorzata Gurowska
Marta Ignerska
Tymek Jezierski
Dawid Ryski

BRASILIAN DESIGNERS:
Bruno Porto
Fabio Lopez
Rico Lins
Grande Circular
Estudio Mola

POLISH HISTORICAL POSTERS:
Waldemar Świerzy / Mazowsze
Witold Kaczanowski / Pologne – pays de folklore
Zbigniew Kaja, Grażyna Wyszomirska / Welcome to the polish sea-coast
Waldemar Świerzy / By car to Poland. Polish Travel Office Orbis
Witold Janowski / Venez en Pologne. Juventur vous aidera á recomposer cette image. Bureau de Tourisme de la Jeunesse / Varsovie
Andrzej i Zofia Darowscy / Fly by LOT to Cracow
Maria Tokarczyk / Fly by LOT to Cracow. Samolotem Lot-u do Krakowa
Henryk Tomaszewski / Poland. See Poland delight in its colourful folklore
Wiktor Górka / Poland invites you to a fisherman’s paradise!
Waldemar Świerzy / Poland invites you to the hunt
Jan Lenica / Willkommen in Polen!
Tomasz Rumiński / 50 lat Polskiego Biura Podróży ORBIS 1923-1973 (50 years of Polish Travel Bureau ORBIS 1923-1973)
Waldemar Świerzy / Student winter in Poland with Almatur Socialist Union of Polish Students, 14. Almatur Travel and Turism Office, 9, Ordynacka street, Warsaw, Poland
Jerzy Czerniawski / Student Summer in Poland with “Almatur”. Travel
and tourism office of The Socialist Union of Polish Student
Tomasz Rumiński / Poland invites you to the sandy beaches of the Baltic coast
Tomasz Rumiński / Poland invites you to the Mazurian lakes
Tomasz Rumiński / Poland invites you fora vacation in the mountains
Janusz Stanny / Polskie Linie Lotnicze “LOT” (Polish Airlines)
Tomasz Rumiński / LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze. Polish Airlines

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Photos: Luke Garcia

Exhibition cataloque in PDF.