Newsletter 4/2004 (18th May 2004)

WARSAW

30 May, 7 p.m.
La Traviata.

Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa
Plac Teatralny 1
tel. +48 (22) 692 07 56
fax.+48 (22) 692 02 11
www.teatrwielki.pl

For 150 years now, opera audiences all over the world have been moved by the immortal story of the unhappy love between Violetta, a courtesan in Paris, and Alfredo, a young man from the provinces. The unusual beauty of the melodies, the romantic atmosphere and subtle colours of this opera by Verdi, have always been properly appreciated, and to this day the work is greatly successful at all opera theatres. This opera, based on "The Lady of the Camellias" by Alexandre Dumas (son), has been in the Teatr Wielki’s repertoire for 15 years, and is still greatly popular with audiences, for good reason.
In the original Italian
Conductor - Jacek Kaspszyk
Director - Marek Weiss-Grzesiński.        

till 13th June
Pippiloti Rist.

Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej
Zamek Ujazdowski
Al. Ujazdowskie 6
tel: +48 (22) 628 12 71-3
+48 (22) 628 76 83
fax:+48 (22) 628 95 50

e-mail:csw@csw.art.pl

www.csw.art.pl

 
Pipilotti (Charlotte) Rist was born in Reinthal, Switzerland, in 1962. During the first half of the 1980s, she studied graphic design and photography in the Applied Arts Department of the Vienna Academy and video art in Basel. "I decided on video because it allows me to do everything myself, from the camera work through the editing. I like that about it. Video has its characteristic features, its own inner nervousness - and that is what I work with," says the artist.
The exhibition at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle will consist of the most important films in the artist's oeuvre (Sip My Ocean, Ever is Over All, Open My Glade, Selbstlos im Lavabad) as well as two brand new works created for Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (one designed especially for one of the castle's turrets). This is the first extensive exhibition of the works of Pipilotti Rist in Central and Eastern Europe.

till 30th May
Tomasz Tatarczyk.

Galerii Sztuki Współczesnej Zachęta
pl. Małachowskiego 3,
tel:+48 (22) 8275854,
fax:+48 (22) 8277886.
e-mail: office@zacheta.art.pl]
www.zacheta.art.pl

Tomasz Tatarczyk is a thoroughbred painter infatuated by colours and canvases; he is a master of the materials and texture of painting and a restrained but outstanding colourist, concentrated on the nuances of black and white. The landscape interests him in its most fundamental and raw forms: hills and roads paths perceived as the expression of primal forces, of the magnitude and power of nature, raised up folds of earth, traces trampled into the snow, a pale light or the glowing light of the sunset. The artist’s works comprise cycles based around themes of the most simple kind: gates, saws, piles, hills, roads and pictures with a dog... Tatarczyk works in large formats, sometimes composed into triptychs: he is also a master of large format landscape drawings. The artist looks at nature with the eyes of a romantic, as a signal of divine presence, treating his art as the gift of the genuine penetration into the world of nature through a process of contemplation and observation. For many years the artist has been living in the countryside, in the surroundings of Kazimierz on Vistula, and the landscape of these surroundings is the theme and source of inspiration of his paintings.
The exhibition at Zachęta presents a selection of Tomasz Tatarczyk’s works from the cycles Hills, Roads and some others. In accordance with the artist’s suggestion we have bathed his pictures in a white and pure light to provoke the spectator to a careful contemplation of these landscapes in which the author cites a kinship with a selection of the great landscape painters of the past, and especially with Caspar David Friedrich.