[Leica] IMG: Wrocław art

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Many thanks for a trip to a place I am not likely to ever see!

The first gallery looks unbelievably tatty - is that grunge look
deliberate, sort of being uber fashionable?

Cheers
Jayanand



On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> My weeklong trip to Belgium, Germany and Poland during the penultimate
> week of June ended in the city of Wrocław in south-western Poland, the
> place where I was born and where my sister lives. I spent a weekend there,
> the weather was good, the days are long this time of year, so despite the
> short visit I took a lot of pictures. Wrocław is a city of about 700,000
> people with a large university and an international ambience. A lot of
> foreign investment has poured into the city since 1989, and it shows: new
> shopping malls, an Amazon distribution centre outside the city, lots of
> other companies creating jobs. But also restoration of old parts of the
> city, a new university campus near my sister’s place, new art galleries—the
> latter spurred on by Wrocław being the European Capital of Culture in 2016.
> As usual, I spent a lot of time looking at art, in a couple of places: a
> WWII bunker that is now a modern art gallery (and which I always visit),
> and a newly restored place called Four Domes Pavillon near the Century
> Tower. It used to be a film studio, where people like Andrzej Wajda made
> films back in the 1950s and 1960s. It then fell into disrepair, but has now
> been beautifully restored and turned into a branch of the national art
> museum, focusing on contemporary art. Just my thing!
>
> Ninety-one images from a place most of you have never visited:
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> http://www.frozenlight.eu/wro_june2017/
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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