Parallel Threads: Sadley and Sonnino in Dialogue in Warsaw/ At the Ciacek Gallery an imaginary meeting between two pioneers of the textile revolution of the second half of the twentieth century comes to life
The young gallery owner Małgorzata Ciacek , founder of the exhibition space opened last November, proposes new dialogues between masters of modern art. After the homage to the conceptual artist Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski , it is the turn of an imaginary comparison that breaks down geographical and cultural boundaries. Although the two artists never met, their biographies seem to mirror each other. Both born in 1932, their childhoods were marked by the horrors of the Second World War: Sadley in Warsaw, miraculously surviving a bombing; Sonnino in Rome, in a climate oppressed by racial laws. They began their journey in the field of painting, but it was in textiles that they found a tool capable of giving shape to profound and often unspeakable experiences .