Prepared from the collections of the Copper Museum in Legnica, the exhibition presents one of the most demanding graphic techniques – copperplate engraving – a discipline whose history dates back to 15th-century Italy, while the most important engraving centres later emerged in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
“For contemporary artists, copperplate engraving is a challenge. This field of art still requires concentration, patience, a steady hand and time,” notes Łucja Wojtasik-Seredyszyn, curator of the Copper Museum in Legnica. Consequently, only a few artists in Poland currently practise this type of printmaking. This makes it all the more worthwhile to see the results of the work of the best among them.
The exhibition features copperplate engravings by Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz, Krzysztof Skórczewski, Franciszek Bunsch, Zbigniew Czop, Wojciech Łuczak, Jacek Gaj, Tadeusz Jackowski, Andrzej Szklarczyk, Jan Maciej Kopecki, Wojciech Jakubowski and Henryk Feilhauer; the art of each artist represents a separate dialogue with reality.
The museum on Mickiewicza Street is open daily, except Mondays, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The exhibition will be open until 26 June.