Since 19th of November there is another provocative exhibition in the Modem. The Banana republic is breaking taboos. It has topics like the surviving Hitler-myth, the interest of the politicians in informing or not the society and the sexual desire which influences the public life.
At the exhibition the best Polish artists present their artworks from the eighties. Almost one hundred brave and witty works talks about the everyday’s of the late socialism era.
The majority of the artists are well known on international level: they have permanent exhibitions in Western European and overseas too.
The Banana republic is the result of the cooperation of Polish museums and the Modem.
Arkadiusz Berkas, the director of the Polish Institute in Budapest called the exhibition "The most important Hungarian-Polish artistic presentation of the last decades".
The Polish Television prepares a film about the exhibition and bilingual catalogs were edited about the artworks for this occasion.
The exhibition included artists:
Sylwester Ambroziak . Miros?aw Ba?ka . Krzysztof Bednarski . Ewa Ciepielewska . Zbigniew Maciej Dowgia??o . Ryszard Grzyb . Bo?ena Grzyb-Jarodzka . Marek Janiak . Grzegorz Klaman . Pawe? Jarodzki . Jerzy Kosa?ka . Pawe? Kowalewski . Andrzej Kwietniewski . Waldemar MAJOR Fydrych . Andrzej Egon Miastkowski . Piotr M?odo?eniec . Jaros?aw Modzelewski . Zdzis?aw Nitka . W?odzimierz Pawlak . Marek Rogulski . Adam Rzepecki . Krzysztof Skarbek . Marek Sobczyk . Andrzej ?wietlik . Eugeniusz Szczud?o . Jerzy Truszkowski . Ryszard Wo?niak . Andrzej Wielogórski.
