Diplomas 2022 - art graduation exhibition
The opening of the Diplomas 2022 exhibition took place on 8 July 2022 at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Opole. Alongside the authors of the works, there was a large crowd of guests: the university authorities - Rector Prof. Marek Masnyk, Vice-Rector Prof. Jacek Lipok and Vice-Rector Prof. Rafał Matwiejczuk - friends, family and art lovers. There were flowers, congratulations and a lot of emotion. The exhibition features the works of 21 this year's graduates of the Faculty of Art at the University of Opole.
The participants of the vernissage were addressed by the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Professor Bartosz Posacki. “The graduation exhibition is the most important event in our academic calendar,” he said. “It is a summation of the students' artistic education; either some stage of it or the end of it.”
He stressed that he was pleased that the exhibition was held in such a prestigious venue as the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Opole. As the Faculty of Art educates students in all artistic disciplines, lovers of the aesthetic experience can feel fully satisfied.
The exhibition will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. until 7 August.
In the text accompanying the exhibition, Prof. Kazimierz Ożóg wrote, inter alia:
The experiences of the last semesters have resulted in mature introspections, bold postulates - teaching us how to live, what to avoid, what to fight against, how to look at ourselves, how (not) to judge ourselves and other matters. The concepts of several of the diploma projects include interaction with viewers - this contact has been sorely lacking lately.
In addition to committed actions, subversive graphics, deconstructive treatises, revolutionary projects - we will find here works for reflection, relaxation, finding simple answers or posing questions. Or simply for feeling better, while looking at the sky or colourful patches. Perhaps these are the kind of diploma works we need most today? ... All of them, regardless of the themes explored, the dimensions, the creative elements studied - are of the highest level. They are the result of long months of finding the right solutions, conversations, acquiring further skills necessary to produce a work that is most often an opus vivendi. At least for now, because afterwards it will - must - get better and better."
The programme accompanying the exhibition:
- 10 July (Sunday) at 4 pm - curatorial tour, guided by: Magda Hlawacz, Paulina Ptaszyńska, Grzegorz Gajos, Bartłomiej Trzos, Bartosz Posacki, Ignacy Nowodworski / participation free of charge
- 17 July (Sunday) at 16.00 guided tour with sign language interpretation, guided by Łucja Piwowar-Bagińska, Ignacy Nowodworski, signing: Jarosław Duszak / participation free of charge
- 24 July (Sunday) at 04.16 p.m. - guided tour in Ukrainian, guided by: Kazimierz Ożóg and students.