The Persistence of History.

• Autores: Christopher Lyon, Lilly Wei
• Localización: Art in America, ISSN 0004-3214, Vol. 93, Nº. 4, 2005, págs. 63-65
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article reports that when curator Aneta Szylak was offered the Poznaski Palace, now Lodz's history museum, as a venue for the first Biennale of Polish Art, she insisted on using the entire building, not just the temporary exhibition spaces. Szylak, who had worked in a history museum early in her career, saw it as the perfect setting for a confrontation of art and history. The ambitious program devised by Szylak, a Gdansk-based critic and curator known for inventive exhibitions that incorporate architectural and social contexts, aimed to contrast the ornate palace interior, which includes preserved private rooms of the family, and two sorts of galleries- the traditional ones with permanent historical displays and the modern-style white cubes for temporary exhibitions.