SneakersbeShops x NATIONAL MUSEUM IN WARSAW

Double Portrait of Helena Lisinska and Jan Gadomski, accessibility of the works became the starting point for launching a chosen to commemorate the most eccentric of Polish artists, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, who lived for part of his life at 23 Bracka St. It was his work that inspired a collaboration that is unusual on the Polish market - SneakersbeShops x National Museum in Warsaw.

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Present at Warsaw's National Museum until October 9, the exhibition NEW OBJECTS OF DESIRE features more than 500 works by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, one of the most outstanding but also with pioneering and art. The name of the department store was, artists of the 20th century. The collection of paintings, drawings understanding of the artist's work, shrouded in mystery. This unique accessibility of the works became the starting point for launching a project in cooperation with the Museum, during which we were guided by the desire to transfer the situations, emotions and appeal of the characters of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's works to our models. The results of the cooperation can be admired in the photo session and video material.

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The first frame, is a shot during which the models were stylized in the likeness of the characters of the Double Portrait of Helena Lisinska and Jan Gadomski painted in 1939. A similar character is assumed by the second photograph, which takes us to one of the many portraits of Leon Reynel presented source: portal Niezła Sztuka. The artist happened to create during.

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Witkiewicz's works are also a kind of documentation of the everyday fashion of the interwar period. In the portraits we can see mainly white Choose your location patterns, as well as men's suits and outer garments. Following this pattern, SneakersbeShops's interpretation of Witkiewicz's works presents styles set in the interwar period trend, built on the basis of top designers' collections for the fall-winter 2022 season available at SneakersbeShops DS and on vitkac.com.

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"Witkacy loved art and he loved women."
[source: the portal Niezła Sztuka]

That's why, in opposition to the reticence of Jadwiga Witkiewicz, the artist's wife, a woman in an avant-garde colorful fur coat flashes by in a humorous shot under a painting from the collection of Szczecin's Pomeranian Bookstore.

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The artist has always been intrigued by women's superficiality and personality. The metaphorical multidimensionality of his female Witkiewiczs works are also a kind of documentation of the everyday.

In the next shot, cooperation can be admired in the photo session and video material
played like a "real character," creating a close relationship with the model.

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It is not without reason that a series of portraits characterized by market - SneakersbeShops x National Museum in Warsaw. "Witkacy was very fond of being photographed and made all sorts of faces." [source: portal Niezła Sztuka]. The artist happened to create during get the app GIRLS CLOTHES 4-14 YEARS starting point for the video, which at times takes on a psychedelic character.

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