We invite you to the Wrocław Contemporary Museum at 2 Strzegomski Square in Wrocław for a guided tour of the "Dróżdż, Opałka, Winiarski. The Border" exhibition, with Polish Sign Language (PJM) translation. The event is free and will take place on December 5th at 5:00 PM. Meet at the Museum ticket office.

Stanisław Dróżdż, Roman Opałka, and Ryszard Winiarski are outstanding Polish artists. All three practiced conceptual art, a style in which the artist's idea is key. The idea is even more important than the actual work—the object. Their work was primarily intellectual, not visual. Stanisław Dróżdż created concrete poetry. This is a form of art in which text is simultaneously arranged into a shape. For example, the words "will," "will be," "will be," "is," "was," "was," "was"—are enlarged or reduced to create the shape of an hourglass. In this way, the artist experimented with the traditional form of verse.

For many years, Roman Opałka created "counted" works. He wrote numbers on his canvases, forming a pattern. This pattern represents a countdown of time: minutes, days, months, years. The artist counted how many days he had lived in the world and pondered how many he had left—when would the counting end?

Ryszard Winiarski pondered the concept of chance in our world and in art. His idea was to randomly select, for example, a dice: which part of the canvas he would paint black and which he would leave white. Were his works thus created by chance? Or perhaps his decision to "play" created some kind of rule?

For the first time at the Wrocław Contemporary Museum, works by Dróżdż, Opałka and Winiarski come together in an exhibition devoted to their work.

We invite all deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people to join Sylwia Owczarek for a guided tour. Elżbieta Resler will translate.

In the video below, interpreter Elżbieta Resler flashes an invitation to the event: