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Aspiracje
theatres in Epidaurus and Thessaloniki (in 2001-2005),
directed by Yorgos Kimoulis.
Jan Ekier
From the Conservatory to University:
Some Memories and Reflections
In his lecture, delivered at the inauguration of the academic
year at the Frederic Chopin University of Music,
Professor Jan Ekier presents his relations with the
school – going back already three-quarters of a century
– beginning with private tuition with its professors: K.
Sikorski and Z. Drzewiecki, in the pre-war times, through
his entry exam, piano studies, award in the Chopin
Competition, extramural degree and post-war beginnings
of his teaching at the State Academic School
of Music, until his retirement after chairing the First
Piano Department for thirty-six years. The text includes
countless facts, also anecdotes, and is an opportunity to
encounter a great artist and to become familiar with his
biographies’ historic background.
It’s been 50 years...
Professor Kazimierz Gierżod in conversation with
Zofia Peret-Ziemlańska
An interview with Kazimierz Gierżod – pianist, educator
and musical activist – on the 50th anniversary of
the beginning of his music career, addresses his interests,
functions (he is Professor Emeritus of the Academy
of Music and twice its Rector), music career and extensive
concert performances and educational activity.
Bogusław Deptuła
Pawlak the Great
In his review of Włodzimierz Pawlak’s retrospective
exhibition at the Warsaw Zachęta Gallery, the author
discusses different stages of the painter’s career: from
his expressive painting of the 1980s, inspired by the
aesthetic of obliterated inscriptions on street walls, to
painting inspired by theories of Władysław Strzemiński
and Kazimierz Malewicz. He points out the special role
of technique and form in Pawlak’s art. From the very
beginning, Pawlak has consistently displayed his admiration
of paint: material paint, but also as the painting’s
tissue, without which it would be hardly conceivable.
Pawlak’s recent explorations have brought him back
to the very banal, almost bordering on perversion. He
squeezes paint from the tube or throws a piece of string
dipped in blue paint at the canvas, making the most primitive
marks, such as painters or builders use in their
work. The only thing that an intelligent painter can do
today is to divagate on and to express doubt about painting,
pictures and a wish to paint one’s own complete
and finished picture, which is no longer possible since
we have been too involved in the history of the genre.
Joanna Stacewicz
A Place Apart of the Inner Landscape:
On Teresa Pągowska
A separate world of Teresa Pągowska’s painting was
born at a junction of great traditions and electrifying
discoveries. Originating in Colourism, gaining independence
in a meeting with art informel and clashing with
the experience of new figuration, within a period of fifty
years her art continued to find for itself autonomous
formal shape and a characteristic system of signs. Pągowska’s
manner of expression required a large space
of the cycle, in which she could develop subsequent
instalments of her great story of a woman. The world
of her private experiences and emotions – a “psychological
profile” in a number of scenes – was presented
in Monochromes and Magical figures. Another “reason”
for Pągowska’s paintings was also a small universe of
homely objects and beloved animals, giving an impulse
to a complex “depiction of reality”. In her explorations
as painter Pągowska tried to blend the rational and the
irrational, at the same time progressing towards some
sources of mystery and simplicity. With their dazzling
composition and colour solutions her outstanding canvases
have become part of the canon of great classics
of contemporary art.
Piotr Rogacz
Obligatory Package
Four years after the 100th anniversary of the Academy
of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Faculty of Painting organized
an exhibition called 100% Painting to mark its 60th anniversary. The show was held in the actual painting
studios that are still used today. Its authors decided to
present the history of the Faculty displaying works by
professors, assistants and graduates of particular studios,
as well as pointing out a number of phenomena
that have been characteristic of Polish painting in the
last sixty years. Unfortunately, the limited range of the
show, obscure selection criteria and superficial treatment
of problems faced by generations of Polish artists
have amounted to a rather unsatisfactory result. While
paying too much attention to the historical aspect of the
presentation (showing previous generations of painters),
the authors forgot that it is not only tradition that
builds the school’s strength, but primarily the achievements
of the most recent graduates.
Małgorzata Komorowska
Honorary Doctorate for Bernard Ładysz
On 6 May 2008 the Frederic Chopin University of Music
in Warsaw conferred an honorary doctorate on Bernard
Ładysz, the renowned singer. Ładysz is a colourful character:
a zhulik from Wilno’s Zarzecze, as he likes to call
himself, a choir boy from the Bernadine Church, a soldier
in the Third Brigade of the Home Army (AK), who
escaped the bullets of an execution squad, the Kaluga
prisoner, a lumberjack singing under the whip, then –
in post-war Poland, deprived of his Wilno homeland –
an insubordinate student of the Frederic Chopin Academic
School of Music, and a popular singer, performing
mass and soldiers songs. At the same time, though, he
kept winning singing competitions in Poland and abroad.
He has a splendid fruity voice, strong and perfectly
natural. As a bass singer, he seems to have been unparalleled
both in and outside of Poland in the previous
fifty years. In 1956, he received the prestigious Primo
Premio Assoluto at the International Music Competition
in Vercelli, Italy, which made him world famous.