Towards Schulz

Janusz Kapusta and Rafal Olbinski, or Igor Mitoraj, a sculptor known in another field of art, and Zdzislaw Beksinski, the recently tragically deceased painter and photographer, express themselves in drawing, a technique so close to Bruno Schulz’s artistic work.

In addition to the aforementioned artists, the exhibition will feature works by many other prominent artists, including: Jan Lebenstein, Franciszek Starowieyski and Jerzy Nowosielski. Of the latter, there will be drawings from the late 1940s and early 1950s alluding to femininity, its power and at the same time the fear of it, which notoriously runs through Schulz’s work. This very interesting theme for the artist also appears in the photographic works of Ryszard Horowitz. The exhibition at the Stalowa Wola museum will also feature works by Kiejstut Bereźnicki, Andrzej Dudzinski, Edward Dwurnik, Daniel Horowitz, Franciszek Maśluszczak, Stasys Eidrigevicius, including his installation “Father Time”, works by Janusz Wisniewski, Piotr Dumała and Krystyna Piotrowska, whose work will not be the first time to be hosted within the walls of the local museum, as she has been a member of the “Self-Portrait” competition jury for several years.

The originator and curator of the exhibition, which has already been presented at home and abroad, including in Krakow, Poznan, Gdynia as well as Lviv and Odesa, is Jan Boncza-Shablowski. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, which includes statements by artists participating in the exhibition about their fascination with Schulz’s work. But they are not the only ones to speak in the discussion, which is also joined by prominent schulzologists and among them Jerzy Ficowski, Malgorzata Kitowska-Lysiak and Halina Kasjaniuk. The entire catalog is supplemented by columns by, among others, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jerzy Pilch or the author of the exhibition scenario, Jan Bonczy-Szabłowski, and the composer of the music accompanying the exhibition, Jerzy Satanowski.