top of page
Exhibition at the National Museum, 1987, Radical realism, concrete abstraction. Sinking of Zbigniew Dowgiałło's Raft Full of Communists

Exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw, 1987,Radical realism, concrete abstraction
Picture in the pictureSinking of a Raft Full of Communists by Zbigniew Dowgiałło

At the end of 1987, the exhibition "Radical Realism. Concrete Abstraction" was opened at the National Museum in Warsaw, constituting a kind of summary and ennobling the entire trend of New Expression. Zbigniew Dowgiałło's painting "The Sinking of a Raft Full of Communists" hangs on the main wall of the Museum, as a flagship painting of the entire trend, at the same time predicting the imminent end of communism. It was also a call to fight to overthrow communism, while giving hope to people from the underground that the artists were with them.

The Fall of the Third Rome and Zbigniew Dowgiałło, Exhibition at the National Museum, 1987, Radical realism, concrete abstraction

Exhibition at the National Museum, 1987,Radical realism, concrete abstraction

The photo shows the author at the age of 26 with his painting in the backgroundFall III Rome

Opening of the exhibition at the National Museum, 1987, Radical realism, concrete abstraction. Sinking of Zbigniew Dowgiałło's Raft Full of Communists

The official opening of the exhibition

At the National Museum, 1987,Radical realism, concrete abstraction

in the background, the painting The Flooding of a Raft Full of Communists by Zbigniew Dowgiałło

The Sinking of a Raft Full of Communists by Zbigniew Dowgiałło, a flagship painting of New Expression.

Sinking of a Raft Full of Communists, 1987, oil on canvas,  400×480cm,
Exhibition at the National Museum, 1987,Radical realism, concrete abstraction

​

The Fall of Rome III, Zbigniew Dowgiałło, contemporary art, painting, National Museum, Warsaw

Visitors of the exhibition contemplating art.
Image on the top rightLove and Decadence by Zbigniew Dowgiałło

"Love and decadence" by Zbigniew Dowgiałło. National Museum, 1987, exhibition: Radical realism, concrete abstraction.

Love and decadence, 1986, oil on canvas, 250x390 cm
Exhibition at the National Museum, 1987,Radical realism, concrete abstraction

Sinking of a Raft Full of Communists, Dowgiallo, neue wilde, national museum, Warsaw

Fall of Rome III, 1987, oil on canvas, 280x400 cm, collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
Exhibition at the National Museum, 1987,Radical realism, concrete abstraction

bottom of page