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Jan Lenica
A lecture dedicated to the brilliant visual artist Jan Lenica. He began as a teenage cartoonist in the post-war “Pins”. He was a humorist, caricaturist and journalist. His musical imagination - he graduated from a musical high school on the piano - in time allowed him to create extraordinary film and theater posters. Lenica went down in history as one of the founders of the “Polish poster school,” creating - alongside Tomaszewski, Zamecznik and Fangor - memorable and unique designs. He used to say that a poster “must sing” - and sometimes even scream - like the poster for the opera Wozzeck. The famous “screaming face” is known around the world today. Visual imagination pushed Lenica into animated films. With House he won the world experimental film competition in Brussels, Labyrinth entered the canon of world animation. Each of the aforementioned mediums gave Lenica the opportunity to create mini philosophical treatises, tracts.
Jan Lenica - visual artist, graphic designer. Born in 1928 in Poznań, son of painter Alfred Lenica, brother of illustrator Danuta Konwicka. After the war he drew in the satirical magazine “Szpilki”. Co-founder of the “Polish school of poster art.” Winner of the 1st World Poster Biennale in 1966 for his design for the play Wozzeck. Author of animated films, including Home, Mr. Head, The New Janko the Musician and Labyrinth. Winner of the Max Ernst and Toulouse Lautrec awards. He lived abroad since 1963 and taught in Germany since 1979. He died in 2001.
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Marcel Woźniak
Born 84, writer and journalist, PhD in humanities. He created the crime trilogy Repetition, Glimpse and Abyss about Toronto detective Leon Brodzki. The continuation of this series is Bridge over Troubled Water starring Jan Sambor, a detective story that is the author's tenth book. The author of the first biography of Leopold Tyrmand Tyrmand. The Writer with White Eyes, with which he was included in the Books From Poland 2020 of the Polish Book Institute. Tracing Tyrmand's story, he visited San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Vilnius, Frankfurt am Main and even Moscow. The author of detective stories and war novels The Enforcer and The Butcher of Lyon, in the course of writing which he visited Drohobych, Lviv, Amsterdam and Lyon. He is a past recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a radio journalist. Author of scripts for documentaries and series. He is currently studying at the Lodz Film School and working on a biography of Jan Lenica.