A Meeting - Polish Folk woodcuts in the collection of Józef Gwalbert Pawlikowski found in Lviv.

Important exhibition at Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow. Over 140 display units discovered by Museum researchers in Lviv archives. Never displayed before. About 30 large scale prints and many various b/w and coloured woodcuts. Not to mention there was only 3 large scale Polish folk woodcuts known before this discovery. That was really unbelievable!

Many thanks to the Museum crew: 

Mrs Grażyna Mosio, Mrs Beata Skoczeń - Marchewka and Mr Grzegorz Graff. 

Thanks for your hard work and great curatorial guide.

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You can also take a look at the pictures from my lecture at The Ethno Museum in Krakow at this link. Thank You for coming.

pine is wild _ alder is mild

I am having a lecture about water based woodblock + presentation of my woodcuts at Ethno Museum in Cracow.

29 November 2014 (Saturday)
11.00 AM

Seweryn Udziela Etnographic Museum in Krakow
Auditorial room
at the Town Hall building
Plac Wolnica 1 street
31-060 Krakow
POLAND

LINK

You're fairly invited.

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And now the more important part of this post:


Don't forget to visit the big exhibition of extremely rare Polish traditional folk woodcuts from Lwów, that is on the display for the public for the first time at Ethnographic Museum there in Cracow. Definitely a milestone event. I can't wait to see this.

 

LINK to exhibition shots and Polish text.

 

Link to the English text by Mrs Grażyna Mosio form Ethno Museum in Cracow.

 

Closer look at Wayne Crother's "The Sea of Quiescence 2"

Seen @ MCSG Cracow

 

Krakow, Katowice 1/3

Hello.
I was in Krakow at the opening of Cracow Triennale.
I'm glad I could see Karen Kunc woodblocks live for the first time.
Pretty impressive.

Cracow:

 Katowice:

 

The Cracow trip.

There are shots from my recent visit in Cracow.

First I visited Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków.

I was able to watch unique folk prints and blocks. I met fantstic crew of Museum: Mrs.Beata Skoczeń-Marchewka, Mrs. Grażyna Mosio and Mr. Grzegorz Graff. We had a very interesting discussion about folk woodblocks history and techniques. I could verify my opinions and ask questions regarding this extremely interesting phenomenon. I'm so glad I was there. The Museum is running an internet database of Polish folk woodblock - you can check it at drzeworyty.pl It's also available in English. You can find photos and detailed descriptions of each object.

  

primitive brushes and blocks:

Mr. Grzegorz Graff introduced me to the Passages and Repassages exhibition with plenty of common and ethnographic objects combined and rearranged in new suprising ways. In example paintings of Nikifor. I was suprised, delighted, and it really moved me, because of the unusual introspective context and great images of the painter. From the catalogue:" The pictures of Nikifor are joined together by subtlety and simplicity. His paintings comprises delicate colours, aggresive geometry and a detailed view on everyday life. We were struck how he viewed the world." If you don't know this painter you should check him out.

 

Then I went to Katowice to the opening of Japan and Poland international print exhibition. You can see some photos from this event here  at the facebook website of Cracow Trienale.

I went back to Cracow, met with my friend Robert and his noble family.

We spent the night talking (there are not many opportunities to meet since he moved) You can see Robert's paintings on the wall, the left one is collaborative piece with his older daughter Zofia.



Next day I went to the Manggha Center. And visited BIG exhibition of japanese prints.No!

Yess! Hundreds of woodcuts by Hokusai and Hiroshige.

Wow. that was too much - I could go back home. And I did it.

but I will be back ;}