Wystawa o Witkacym w Gnieźnie

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00:00We invite you to the next Thursday for the vernissage of the exhibition, we called it Witkacy na wakacje,

00:07it is an exhibition of photography by Stanisław Iwianacek Witkiewicz-Witkacy,

00:12which was prepared by the Tetrzański Museum in cooperation with the Visual Arts Gallery in Oxhall in Krzyżowice.

00:20Curators from the Tetrzański Museum, Mrs. Danuta Janusz and Kamil Kłeczek from the Voxhall Gallery,

00:30chose from 250 negatives and positives, photographs of Witkacy from different periods.

00:40Since Witkacy had a very progressive father and had a very original home education,

00:50he started photographing from the age of 13.

00:53He was interested in photography as a medium of documentation.

00:57So at the exhibition you will see Tetrzański landscapes and views of Zakopane,

01:05locomotives entering the platform of Zakopane, because Witkacy's machines fascinated him.

01:13Family photographs, above all portraits and self-portraits with his father Stanisław Witkiewicz

01:23and portraits of his fiancée Jadwiga Czeska, a special figure for Witkiewicz,

01:33a woman who committed suicide and Witkacy survived it.

01:37The portraits are extraordinary.

01:39There is also a series of photographs that is perhaps the most famous,

01:43when it comes to the famous avant-garde Polish artist.

01:48It's a series of memes.

01:50Photographs from the 1930s and they show the famous Witkacy's mimicry theater,

01:57which he played with, but not entirely.

02:00He was already very aware of the photographic medium from the 1930s.