"Silence" - this is the title of the photography exhibition by one of the most outstanding Polish theatre artists, Leszek Mądzik, which can be viewed in front of the Tarnowski Castle in Tarnobrzeg-Dzików. The outdoor exhibition, open until the end of September, includes over 40 works by the artist.
Leszek Mądzik, photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73QTLxT7Xzk - archival photography
According to Tadeusz Zych, director of the Historical Museum of the City of Tarnobrzeg, located in the Dzików Castle, Mądzik's photographs, "taken and born from inner silence", tell us about important, ultimate things.
"About what has always occupied true art. Through them, the author tells each of us: calm down, stand in silence before yourself, because only then can you hear a clear voice. Because, paradoxically, Mądzik's silence screams," noted director Zych.
He added that the title of the exhibition, "Silence", was invented by its author, Leszek Mądzik.
"I will admit shamelessly - it was not a surprise to me. I know his work from the time of my studies at the Catholic University of Lublin. The Scena Plastyczna Theatre, which he founded and which he directed for years, became one of the symbols of this Lublin university," recalled Zych. He pointed out that the hallmark of Mądzik's art was the complete exclusion of the actors' voices. "Not only the voices, they themselves became basically invisible to the viewer. Silence," said director Zych.
The outdoor exhibition in Tarnobrzeg featured over 40 large-format, colour photographs by Mądzik, recording several decades of the artist's journey with the theatre. The photographs show, among other things, sculptures in wood, stone, and church decorations.
"Silence enclosed in stone or wood, despite its vanitas-like (referring to the transience of human life, the inevitability of transience - PAP) character, sings, shouts a wonderful hymn in honour of life," noted the director of the Tarnobrzeg museum.
Leszek Mądzik - director, set designer, painter, photographer - is considered one of the most original Polish theatre artists. He was born on 5 February 1945 in Bartoszowiny in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. He studied at the Catholic University of Lublin, and received his Master of Arts degree from the Theatre Academy. Zelwerowicz in Białystok. He founded the KUL Visual Arts Stage in 1969, and has since produced over 20 premieres, including "Ecce homo" (1970), "Wieczerza" (1972), "Ikar" (1974), "Zielnik" (1978), "Brzeg" (1983), "Wrota" (1989), "Tchnienie" (1992), "Czelina" (1994), "Kir" (1997), "Odchodzi" (2003), "Rruzda" (2005).
The performances of the KUL Visual Arts Stage - referred to as a theatre of images - are devoid of words, traditional acting and plot, and are based on scenography, space, play of light, silence and sounds. In his work, the artist explores the themes of the sacred, death, eroticism and transience.
Theatre critics in Poland and abroad call Mądzik's theatre a theatre of philosophical existentialism. The main means of artistic expression of Mądzik, who is the director and set designer of all Scena performances, are space and light, a few characters and objects immersed in depth and darkness.
His theatre has taken part in over 50 international festivals, bringing back awards and distinctions.
Mądzik is a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers. He has presented his works, among others, in the Critics' Gallery Pokaz in Warsaw, in the Gallery of the Polish Institute in Vienna, in the UNESCO Centre in Beirut, in the Opera Gallery in Cairo, in the Centre of Japanese Art and Techniques "Manggha" in Krakow, in the Lublin Museum, in the Art Gallery of the Catholic University in Santiago de Chile, in the Theater-Cai in Tokyo, in the National Museum in Wrocław, in The Saddlery Gallery in Edmonton, Canada, in the Theatre Museum in Warsaw. In 1986, he founded the KUL Art Gallery of the Visual Stage, where many exhibitions of outstanding artists of Polish culture have been organized.
He is also the author of several scenographies for performances in theaters in Poland, Portugal, France and Germany, and a lecturer at several art schools, including the Department of Scenography at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He has also lectured at art schools in Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Hamburg, and Lyon. Mądzik has received many awards and distinctions for his artistic activity. (PAP)
Source – PAP/kno/
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