EXHIBITION 'DANISH EX LIBRIS'
Exlibris is a kind of art that over decades has connected people sharing the passion. The exhibition Danish Exlibris, composed mainly from the collections of The Raczynski Library in Poznan, but enrichened by loans from Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum og Exlibrissamling, is in a way a documentation of Danish-Polish relations in this field.
They made only a small part of the whole collection totalling 400 works donated to the Library by Mr. Klemens Raczak, who was also the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition was supplemented with contemporary Danish ex libris made by such Danish artists as Christian Blasbjerg, Per Christensen, Antonio Viviano and Fritz Overgaard, and with collections from the Art Museum in Frederikshavn, which is in possession of one of the biggest collections of ex libris in the world, amounting to 300,000 works. The interesting elements of the exhibition were works made by the Danish artists for their Polish friends as well as by Poles for Danes, thereby proving the close and long-lasting contacts between Polish and Danish ex libris passionates. "Warmness and humour are striking features in the Danish ex libris presented, which is at variance with the Polish stereotype of Denmark - cool and severe. Where has the Danish ex libris come from to Poland? The presented fragments of the collection from the Raczynski Library and her history testify to the force of human passions, to their effective breaking of borders, even in times so difficult as those before the year 1989".