Oh, the media...

gallery | photos from the opening night | photos from the exhibition

Oh, the media ... pervasive, intrusive, nosy ...

We have the impression that they are simply unbearable.

After a moment's thought, however, comes the obvious observation; despite all its defects they are necessary. Can we live without them? Can we imagine a world without television, radio, press? Can we do without the computer, the internet, facebook?

Some have tried and are still trying. But most of us start the switching the computer or televison on. Modern man depends on them.

No wonder that the media is one of the topics frequently commented on by cartoonists and media celebrities like journalists, actors or politicians are frequently the subject of their caricatures. (Oh, once again the media ...). We are showing the whole spectrum of caricatures of celebrities starting with Marshal Jozef Pilsudzki’s and Joseph Beck’s pre-war caricatures by Karol Baraniecki) and ending with the recent caricatures of media people and politicians by Jacek Fedorowicz and Maciej Pietrzyk.

This exhibition is the proof that the symbiosis of cartoonists and the media is develping very well. We are showing cartoons from our collection, some very old ones from the last century, some very new, produced specially for the purpose of the exhibition.

Attentive viewers will probably notice that those cartoons have many common features. Reflection of the omnipresence of the media in our life - social and private - is justified and we have little choice but to accept them and make friends with them (the media, of course).

Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz
Director of the Museum of Caricature