The exhibition has been prepared by members of the Impasto and Acrylic sections of the Helena Kretz University of the Third Age in Lodz. The works on display were created during an open-air art workshop in Radziejowice, and their main theme is the beauty of local nature. The workshop participants also had an opportunity to work with a model posing in a natural setting, which enriched the formal and thematic diversity of the works on display.
The curators of the project include mgr Jarosław Żero – a painter and a photographer, a graduate of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź, who is a multiple scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and a supervisor of the Impasto art section at the University of the Third Age in Lodz and mgr Joanna Miklaszewska, who supervises the Acrylic section.
As mgr Joanna Miklaszewska emphasises, participating in the outdoor workshop had a particularly creative impact on the participants:
– People are very open to creativity in their everyday work environment. There's a freedom to create, they stop thinking, they just 'flow.' And that's beautiful!
The exhibition will feature works by the following artists: Joanna Adamska, Barbara Andrzejewska, Bogumiła Burda, Aleksandra Czeremuszkin, Grażyna Dec, Lidia Filipczak, Joanna Gogolewska, Mariola Gosławska, Krystyna Janiszewska, Iwona Kałaska, Jacek Kubiak, Ludmiła Kulikowska-Kubiak, Alina Laskowska, Stanisława Leszczyńska, Marek Marciniak, Ewa Murak-Kazanecka, Danuta Natkaniec, Jolanta Piech, Renata Siuta, Teresa Skrzypek, Alicja Staniewska, Krystyna Szakiel, Elżbieta Wolna.
The "Radziejowice '25" exhibition is the next stage in the dynamically developing cooperation between the University of Lodz and the H. Kretz University of the Third Age in Lodz, which has been ongoing for 40 years. Beyond their educational activities, the students actively participate in the university's cultural life, sharing their knowledge and expertise, and popularising the topics presented in exhibitions, where they also serve as curators. This collaboration is a unique form of skill-based volunteering, where experience, knowledge and passion meet openness to new initiatives. As the event organisers from the University of Lodz Centre for Organising Cultural Events and Conferences underline, the greatest value of this cooperation lies in the commitment, communication skills and creative activity of the participants, often professionally or artistically connected to the art world.
Both parties express their hope that this cooperation will continue to develop in the coming years, and that joint artistic and educational projects will become a permanent element of the cultural landscape of the University of Lodz.
