20th Century Hungarian art is seen internationally to be greatly influenced by representatives of Abstract and Constructivist trends. The painter Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was a teacher, together with Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, at the famous Bauhaus in Weimar. It was precisely the history of art after 1945 that pushed the early Constructivist tradition of Hungary very much into the foreground. It was this epoch that was deemed as the forerunner of Concrete and Minimalist art after 1945.
10 June 2011 Exhibition Vernissage Vladimir Malakhov's Collection of Art Objects
Vladimir Malakhov is one of the very few greatest dancers of our times. He was educated in Moscow, where he initially performed at the Moscow Classical Ballet. He earned general admiration virtually from his first stage appearances. He was highly regarded for his technical excellence and artistic expression and a certain something that distinguishes outstanding and unique artists. No wonder two documentaries devoted to the then very young dancer were soon made for the Russian television. And after he chose to stay in the West in 1992, the German TV showed a documentary called Narcisse, the Dancer Malakhov. He was soon recognized as the dancer of the century and has been generally labelled as such ever since. Stages all over the world stood open for him, the most outstanding dancers and the best groups would await an opportunity to dance with him, and choreographers sought to create new ballets especially for him. No wonder, it took him relatively little time to achieve everything (and even more) that a vast majority of dancers can only dream about. The position of Intendant of Staatsballett Berlin that he has held for many years now is a natural consequence of his artistic path. Apart from this, he still dances to audiences' delight. Years ago, he expanded his artistic activities to include choreography of grand classical ballets. And he has been a collector since his early days of performing.
May 5, 2011 Welcome to the exhibition of Stasys Eidrigevicius
STASYS EIDRIGEVICIUS
Arist of international standing. Born in 1949 in Lithuania, in 1968-1973 he studied at the Academy of Fine in Vilnius and moved to Poland in 1980. At the outset of his career he focused on book art - miniatures, bookplates and illustrations - to continue with masks, pastels, tempera, ink drawings and oils. He has been inspired by such distant phenomena as for ex ample the art of American Indians or Japanese caligraphy and folk tales. Performer, author of stage settings, installations and objects, recently he turned his interest to photography and theatre directing. His first play was White Deer (1993) staged at the Warsaw Studio Theatre; at present the same theatre runs another play of his, Wooden Man. devoted to the creative process and the artists early years in Lithuania. He has also been involved in projects blending art and music, and has published a series of drawings and poetic miniatures Erotica. Laureate of numerous international prizes and medals in various fields of his artistic activity, such as: Grand Prix International Book Illustration Contest in Barcelona (1986), Gold Hugon at the International Poster Festival in Chicago (1987), Silver Medal at the 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art in New York (1988), Grand Prix of the 1st International Biennial Exhibition of Book Illustration in Belgrad (1990) and in Bratislava (1991), Gold Medal of the Society of Illustrators in New York and Grand Prix of the International Salon of Poster In Paris (1993), Gold Medal at the 4th International Triennial of Poster in Toyama (Japan, 1994) and Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice (1999) as well as the national Lithuanian orders and awards (Gedymin Order, 2000; National Art Award, 2001), and others. He has exhibited in the USA, Switzerland, Japan, Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany and many other countries. A BBC film on his work was produced in 1987.
Yoshiko Tsubouchi, a painter born in 1966 in Tokyo. She graduated from the Joshibi University of Art and Design. She is a member of the Japan Artists' Association. Extremely visional and distinctive as they are, her graphics, exhibited in galleries all over the world, just to mention to the USA, Japan and Europe (Italy, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland), are often used as illustrations for children's books. The artist brings us to a magic world as if from The One Thousand and One Nights or Jan Potocki's books, where one travels by balloon, sailing ship or stagecoach. She is also fascinated by maps of the world and globes, yet rather than contemporary world atlases, her cartographic works are much like 19th century maps or drawings created by treasure hunters. They do not show road networks. Instead, her maps reproduce natural topography, and one can see hills, woods, and sailing ships travelling across the oceans.
Born in 1971 in Kielce. She graduated from the Higher School of Pedagogy of Kielce, majoring in Biology. Then she completed an academic programme in Painting at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow. She studied in art studios of Prof. A. Brincken and Prof. J. Waltoś and at the Faculty of Graphics in an art studios of Prof. A. Pietsch - at an intaglio printing studio and Prof. R. Banaszewski at a book printing and typography studio. She was awarded a diploma in easel painting in an art studio of Prof. G. Bednarski in 2001. Since 2001, she has been an academic teacher at the Institute of School Education within the The Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences of Kielce. In 2010, she defended a doctoral thesis entitled Natural Quotations under supervision of Prof. Małgorzata Bielecka. In the course of her work at the University, she published a few papers, including Deliberations on Inspiration, Beauty?, Nature in Visual Arts - a historical outline. She had a dozen or so individual and collective exhibitions. She takes part in plein-air workshops.
