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Works by Jan Lebenstein
The Rempex Gallery of Contemporary Art (Senatorska Street 11) presents an exhibition of the works by an excellent Polish artist, Jan Lebenstein (1930-1999). It shows both the artist’s paintings that have been already exhibited in the Zachęta Gallery in 1992, and his less known works on paper. Another attraction of the exhibition is works from the collection of Romain Gary, a French writer of Polish origins, a friend of Jan Lebenstein from the years he spent in Paris. The exhibition is presented until August, 16.
Polish Artist at Sotheby’s
To the end of July, the oldest auction house Sotheby’s in Amsterdam presented the exhibition of the works by a Polish painter, Witold Kaczanowski (75). It was the first exhibition of the artist in this prestigious place. Witold K. – he usually signs his works with this name – studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw. He is the author of a giant fresco referring to the Holocaust in the Culture Center (Centrum Kultury) in Oświęcim. Kaczanowski also produces abstractions, he is a sculptor and he never stops analyzing the secrets of human life, which is bound to pass by, and of the infinity of the universe. His sculptures are the effect of explosions that imitate the Big Bang. Kaczanowski is an artist with unique imagination and excellent artistic technique.
Daniel Olbrychski - Moscow Awards
Daniel Olbrychski, one of the best Polish actors, was given the Constantin Stanislavsky Award at the 29th International Film Festival organized in Moscow. The award is granted for significant achievements in the field of the world’s cinema and for the implementation of the principles of Stanislavsky’s acting methods. Olbrychski debuted in 1962 and since then has played in numerous films, both Polish and foreign. He has been famous for many interesting roles, for instance in Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes (Popioły). For several years, the actor cooperated with Wajda playing in many of his films, such as, for example, Landscape After the Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie), The Wedding (Wesele), The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana), which was nominated for an Oscar and The Maids of Wilko (Panny z Wilka). Besides, Olbrychski played in French, German and Italian productions. He is still very popular and remains active professionally. His competitors for the award in Moscow were Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. And amongst the winners of this award there are Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, to mention just a few.
International War and Peace
Rome hosted the premiere of the television series titled War and Peace, based on the famous novel by Lev Tolstoy. This is an international production in which seven countries participated, namely, Italy, Germany, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Poland, represented by the Polsat television. The cast of the film is international, too. Pierre Bezukhov is played by a German actor, Natasha Rostova by a French actress, and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky – by an Italian one. And Robert Dornhelm, who was born in Romania, is the director of the film. Polish participation in the production is important, too, as the score was written by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, an Oscar winner. The series was realized in Lithuania and in Sankt Petersburg. It will be broadcast on Polsat in October and November.
Love and War
Spring 1941 (Wiosna 1941 roku) is the title of the first Polish and Israeli film co-production, directed by Uri Barbash, who has already been nominated for an Oscar. The film will be realized in Łódź and in other places. I believe that this story about the Holocaust, love, forgiveness and reconciliation will be the film of my life, says the director. The movie is based on the story by Ida Fink, a Polish-language writer who has been living in Israel since 1957. The heroine of the film is a world famous cello player of Polish origins who is invited to her home town in Poland to celebrate the opening of a concert hall called with her name. When she arrives to the place where she was born, her memories go back. The film features famous Polish and English actors.
50 Years of the Theater Museum
The Theater Museum (Muzeum Teatralne) is the only museum of the kind in Poland. When it was opened, it consisted of two rooms only. Nowadays, its seat is in the elegant Sale Redutowe of the National Opera (Opera Narodowa). The museum was established exactly 50 years ago. Its father was Arnold Szyfman, an excellent Polish director, who, in 1955, started managing the present building of the National Opera that had been destroyed by the Germans during the Second World War. The museum exhibits numerous mementos of the greatest artists of the theater, such as costumes, paintings, photographs, elements of stage design and personal mementos of great actors, which are always very popular with the visitors. The museum has over 3,000 exhibits in total.
One Hundred Years of Photography
This is undoubtedly an exhibition that is worth visiting – it summarizes the achievements of Polish art photography of the 20th century. It is presented in the Palace of Culture and Science (PKiN). The title of the exhibition is Polish Photography of the 20th Century (Polska fotografia XX wieku) and it was organized by the Society of Polish Photographers (Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its establishment and to celebrate one hundred years of art photography. The exhibition shows 350 photos of top Polish photographers: Jerzy Dorys, (in the photograph: his Nude (Akt) from 1934), Antoni Węcławski, Sylwester „Kris” Braun, Eugeniusz Haneman, Eugeniusz Lokajski, Edward Hartwig, Jerzy Kosiński, Zdzisław Beksiński, Chris Niedenthal, and many others. The exhibition will be presented in Warsaw until the end of August, and later it is going on a tour around the world.
Chopin’s Piano Found
After laborious studies, it has been confirmed that the Pleyel piano located in Hatchlands in British county of Surrey is this very instrument on which Frederic Chopin gave his concerts almost 160 years ago. There are a few Pleyel pianos from that time (one of them on our photo), but it remained unknown which of them was the one on which the great Polish composer performed in person. That is why this finding is so important. In 1848, Chopin arrived in London with his own piano, which he had been using for two years only, but he loved it for its soft tones and because he had chosen it himself. This is this very piano that later got to Hatchlands, which has just been confirmed by experts. On this piano Chopin gave concerts to, for instance, Queen Victoria. The owner of Hachlands, the National Trust organization which takes care about the national heritage of the British Isles, has announced that concerts of Chopin’s music will be organized in Surrey on this piano.
Posters in Wilanów
The Thirteenth Salon of Polish Poster (Trzynasty Salon Plakatu Polskiego) will be presented in the Museum of Poster (Muzeum Plakatu) in Wilanów until September, 30. The event is organized in turns with the International Biennial Exhibition of Posters, and the difference is that the Salon presents Polish posters exclusively, and they are not selected by any jury. This makes the exhibition a review of various graphic techniques, and a colorful calendar of cultural, political and social events of the last two years.
The Rempex Gallery of Contemporary Art (Senatorska Street 11) presents an exhibition of the works by an excellent Polish artist, Jan Lebenstein (1930-1999). It shows both the artist’s paintings that have been already exhibited in the Zachęta Gallery in 1992, and his less known works on paper. Another attraction of the exhibition is works from the collection of Romain Gary, a French writer of Polish origins, a friend of Jan Lebenstein from the years he spent in Paris. The exhibition is presented until August, 16.
Polish Artist at Sotheby’s
To the end of July, the oldest auction house Sotheby’s in Amsterdam presented the exhibition of the works by a Polish painter, Witold Kaczanowski (75). It was the first exhibition of the artist in this prestigious place. Witold K. – he usually signs his works with this name – studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw. He is the author of a giant fresco referring to the Holocaust in the Culture Center (Centrum Kultury) in Oświęcim. Kaczanowski also produces abstractions, he is a sculptor and he never stops analyzing the secrets of human life, which is bound to pass by, and of the infinity of the universe. His sculptures are the effect of explosions that imitate the Big Bang. Kaczanowski is an artist with unique imagination and excellent artistic technique.
Daniel Olbrychski - Moscow Awards
Daniel Olbrychski, one of the best Polish actors, was given the Constantin Stanislavsky Award at the 29th International Film Festival organized in Moscow. The award is granted for significant achievements in the field of the world’s cinema and for the implementation of the principles of Stanislavsky’s acting methods. Olbrychski debuted in 1962 and since then has played in numerous films, both Polish and foreign. He has been famous for many interesting roles, for instance in Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes (Popioły). For several years, the actor cooperated with Wajda playing in many of his films, such as, for example, Landscape After the Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie), The Wedding (Wesele), The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana), which was nominated for an Oscar and The Maids of Wilko (Panny z Wilka). Besides, Olbrychski played in French, German and Italian productions. He is still very popular and remains active professionally. His competitors for the award in Moscow were Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. And amongst the winners of this award there are Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, to mention just a few.
International War and Peace
Rome hosted the premiere of the television series titled War and Peace, based on the famous novel by Lev Tolstoy. This is an international production in which seven countries participated, namely, Italy, Germany, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Poland, represented by the Polsat television. The cast of the film is international, too. Pierre Bezukhov is played by a German actor, Natasha Rostova by a French actress, and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky – by an Italian one. And Robert Dornhelm, who was born in Romania, is the director of the film. Polish participation in the production is important, too, as the score was written by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, an Oscar winner. The series was realized in Lithuania and in Sankt Petersburg. It will be broadcast on Polsat in October and November.
Love and War
Spring 1941 (Wiosna 1941 roku) is the title of the first Polish and Israeli film co-production, directed by Uri Barbash, who has already been nominated for an Oscar. The film will be realized in Łódź and in other places. I believe that this story about the Holocaust, love, forgiveness and reconciliation will be the film of my life, says the director. The movie is based on the story by Ida Fink, a Polish-language writer who has been living in Israel since 1957. The heroine of the film is a world famous cello player of Polish origins who is invited to her home town in Poland to celebrate the opening of a concert hall called with her name. When she arrives to the place where she was born, her memories go back. The film features famous Polish and English actors.
50 Years of the Theater Museum
The Theater Museum (Muzeum Teatralne) is the only museum of the kind in Poland. When it was opened, it consisted of two rooms only. Nowadays, its seat is in the elegant Sale Redutowe of the National Opera (Opera Narodowa). The museum was established exactly 50 years ago. Its father was Arnold Szyfman, an excellent Polish director, who, in 1955, started managing the present building of the National Opera that had been destroyed by the Germans during the Second World War. The museum exhibits numerous mementos of the greatest artists of the theater, such as costumes, paintings, photographs, elements of stage design and personal mementos of great actors, which are always very popular with the visitors. The museum has over 3,000 exhibits in total.
One Hundred Years of Photography
This is undoubtedly an exhibition that is worth visiting – it summarizes the achievements of Polish art photography of the 20th century. It is presented in the Palace of Culture and Science (PKiN). The title of the exhibition is Polish Photography of the 20th Century (Polska fotografia XX wieku) and it was organized by the Society of Polish Photographers (Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its establishment and to celebrate one hundred years of art photography. The exhibition shows 350 photos of top Polish photographers: Jerzy Dorys, (in the photograph: his Nude (Akt) from 1934), Antoni Węcławski, Sylwester „Kris” Braun, Eugeniusz Haneman, Eugeniusz Lokajski, Edward Hartwig, Jerzy Kosiński, Zdzisław Beksiński, Chris Niedenthal, and many others. The exhibition will be presented in Warsaw until the end of August, and later it is going on a tour around the world.
Chopin’s Piano Found
After laborious studies, it has been confirmed that the Pleyel piano located in Hatchlands in British county of Surrey is this very instrument on which Frederic Chopin gave his concerts almost 160 years ago. There are a few Pleyel pianos from that time (one of them on our photo), but it remained unknown which of them was the one on which the great Polish composer performed in person. That is why this finding is so important. In 1848, Chopin arrived in London with his own piano, which he had been using for two years only, but he loved it for its soft tones and because he had chosen it himself. This is this very piano that later got to Hatchlands, which has just been confirmed by experts. On this piano Chopin gave concerts to, for instance, Queen Victoria. The owner of Hachlands, the National Trust organization which takes care about the national heritage of the British Isles, has announced that concerts of Chopin’s music will be organized in Surrey on this piano.
Posters in Wilanów
The Thirteenth Salon of Polish Poster (Trzynasty Salon Plakatu Polskiego) will be presented in the Museum of Poster (Muzeum Plakatu) in Wilanów until September, 30. The event is organized in turns with the International Biennial Exhibition of Posters, and the difference is that the Salon presents Polish posters exclusively, and they are not selected by any jury. This makes the exhibition a review of various graphic techniques, and a colorful calendar of cultural, political and social events of the last two years.
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Information published at 26 August 2007
