Trip to Wroclaw and Dresden – Part 2

The main purpose of SEFA’s November trip to Dresden was to see Egidio Marzona’s collection at the Japanisches Palais, which the collector donated to the museum in Dresden. The Archiv der Avantgarden contains one of the most extensive collections of artworks, objects and documents of the artistic avant-garde of the 20th century. In two years’ time, the collection will be housed in a purpose-built pavilion. On the example of the collection, which has been gathered since the end of the 1960s, one can trace the richness of artistic ideas, radical utopias, as well as surprising juxtapositions of artists’ works. We were able to see the collection in the company of Dr Przemysław Strożek – the curator of the collection, who deals with the history of the avant-garde, modernism and contemporary art on a daily basis.