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Jadwiga Maziarska - Realist of the concrete world
The film lecture takes a closer look at the artist's work based on a chronology of events in her life, but primarily focuses on discussing the characteristics of her specific work and synthesizes the sources of her inspiration. Interested since her youth in such fields as medicine and neurology, the artist found in these sciences the impetus for the narratives she undertook, which determine her uniqueness on the Polish artistic map of the 20th century. Collecting and collecting photographs published in magazines, albums and books almost all her life, she made them not only her intimate atlas describing the matter of the real world, but also an archive of sketches ready to be transferred into the world of her art, doing so in a unique way. The narrative she conducts on the painter emphasizes Maziarska's independent and autonomous explorations of matter painting and structuralism from Western artists of the 1940s and the 1st half of the 1950s. She brings to the fore the unique character of her oil works superstructuring the artist's individual narrative in the form of a kind of palimpsest, as well as assemblages from the 1960s borrowing someone else's photographic record reproduced by Maziarska in a secondary spatial form, yet preserving the full anonymity of the abstract compositions.
Jadwiga Maziarska (1913 - 2003) - forerunner of matter painting, author of spatial objects, photographic collages, puppet theater stage designs. In 1932 she began studying law at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and after two years studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Here she became associated with the academic left and members of the Krakow Group. After World War II, she joined the Cracow Group of Young Visual Artists, and in 1957 participated in the reactivation of the Cracow Group. She took part in the Modern Art Exhibitions (Krakow 1948-1949, Warsaw 1957 and 1959) From 1946 she experimented with the use of fabric in painting, creating appliqués. In the 1950s she began mixing oil paints with stearin. In the next decade she created assemblages, developing her own technique using wax. In the 1970s, she returned to flat painting techniques. In 2001, she received the Jan Cybis Award.
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Monika Przypkowska
I am an art historian, curator and museum educator. I graduated in art history from the University of Warsaw, writing my master's thesis under Prof. Anna Sieradzka on English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Since 1996 I have been associated with the Royal Castle in Warsaw, where as a curator I prepared the exhibition “The Art of Seeing. Nowosielski and others”, I lead the author's series of meetings with contemporary artists ‘Key in the Castle’, museum classes in art history, culture and fashion for youth and adults. I also cooperate with other institutions involved in art education: National Museum in Warsaw, Służew Culture House, Children's and Youth Art Academy, Warsaw Universities of the Third Age. In 2022, I started working with “Radio with Qltura.” Previously, I was also professionally connected with fashion as an editor, stylist and producer of photo shoots in such magazines as Avanti, I Am, Claudia, Moda Top.