Warsaw Palace
A meeting on Waldemar Braniewski’s book

  • Warsaw Palace

We are happy to invite to the discussion on where the Warsaw Parade Square and the Palace of Culture and Science, the most important and for sure the most imperious building in the city landscape, come from.

The book is a result of many years of research conducted by the professor Waldemar Braniewski. The research began early in the decade of 80. in the 20th century and the results were presented in a series of lectures organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 2009 and 2010. Full of historic pictures, sketches and plans, the book illustrates the key architectural features as well as the fragments of history of one of the most outstanding buildings that have ever been constructed in Poland. It also tells the story of the very center of the city of Warsaw – from the war destruction up til the current debates on the future constructions surrounding the Palace.

The album part of the book, by Błażej Pindor, constitutes the first attempt to interpret the space around and inside of the Palace in such an artistically insightful way. This witty analysis of the relation into which the viewer is manipulated by such  architecture – a relation of dominance, exaggeration, self-centeredness with this over decorated and yet seductive building, austere in its own way.

The history of the Palace, its urban neighborhood as well as its meaning today are some of the topics that will be discussed by the author of the book, the art historian professor Waldemar Baraniewski, Błażej Pindor, the author of the contemporary photographic documentation and interpretation and the editors and publishers of “Warsaw Palace” Łukasz Gorczyca and Michał Kaczyński from the Raster gallery.

The book is published by Raster, in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The project is co-funded by the city of Warsaw.

On the day of the event a the book will be available on a discount price. 

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