W cieniu krzesła
In the Shadow of a Chair

Summary/Abstract: Two unusual art galleries appeared in the last two decades along the Vistula valley in Cracow: the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology and Cricoteka. They were created by Andrzej Wajda and Tadeusz Kantor, artists once associated on the film set of The Dead Class and the rostrum of the Congress of Polish Culture in December 1981, even though they pursued diverse types of expression in art and perceived the latter’s place in life totally differently. The durable medium of architecture, into whose language architects translated the divergent stands represented by Wajda and Kantor, will leave for long evidence of a conflict and even an architectural fracas. What does this dissonance say about us?

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