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Nostalgia Chopin and Sikora

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Beatrice Mielcarz

Lubelskie Friday afternoon, April 15 was full of interesting art events. Suffice it to mention of meeting and exhibition summary forty years of creative work and photographer Lucian Demidowskiego Tomasz Sikora opening of the exhibition "Chopin and his nostalgia." Tomasz Sikora was born in 1948, his mother was a painter, sculptor father. The twenty-two he went to Paris to be trained at the Kodak lab. After returning home in 1971 he worked for eight years as a photojournalist in the illustrated weekly "Perspective". Designed at this time also film and theater posters, illustrations, CD covers, calendars. At the turn of 1978/1979 was a cycle of "Alice in Wonderland" [1] , which was presented at the Youth Biennale in Paris in 1980, and enjoyed a lot of interest there. During martial law, he settled in Australia, he founded a photo studio and began working in advertising agencies. Twice he was awarded the title "the best advertising photographer." Since 1996 he has divided his time between Australia and Poland. In 1999, he embarked on the "Transparency of Things," from 2001 along with Andrew Skylight deal with the Homeless Gallery.

Nostalgia Chopin Stock Tomek Sikora, "is one of the last projects of the artist. Working on it lasted one and a half years, much of the time it took the implementation of 144 photographs published in the album [2] designed by Maciej Buszewicz. Some of the images (actually 50) arranged an exhibition of [3] which, together with stop motion film made by and inspired by the Scherzo in B minor, Op. 31 Chopin was presented for the first time in February 2010 in Krakow Palace of Fine Arts Fine Arts Society. The immediate the reason for the publication was the two hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. The idea of \u200b\u200bpublishers initially focused on a combination of two themes: Poland and Chopin. It Sikora inspired to create a design with the images caused by youthful, sentimental memories, in which the plane joining these two subjects are the emotions.

reading speech the author can see the personal, emotional commitment to the project, an excellent understanding of the situation of the composer who lives in exile. Photographer says that the discovery because of the strong feelings that have been raised with him while listening to songs Chopin was when he left Poland: "After a dozen years, when once again find myself outside the homeland, this time with the knowledge that may never be given to me to reach her back to me that this music was steeped in nostalgia [ 4] . " One gets the impression that the photographer is identified with the composer in exile: "Both Chopin and I have been demoted in his creative work. It was a degradation of professional and quality of life. He earned teaching piano, I started studio advertising [5] . " It is significant to this the fact that the exhibition we see the pictures taken in the villages close to Chopin, and Sikora. These include scenes of Golub-Dobrzyn, where the composer spent his holidays and Mięćmierza, the place where Sikora and sometimes that is not associated with a composer.

term "nostalgia" [6] appearing in the title of the exhibition Lublin is defined as: "feelings of sadness and longing for something gone forever or is unavailable, and seems to be very valuable [7] . " Combines [ 8] in the positive and negative emotions. The source of the former are pleasant, sentimental memories of the place, person. Unfortunately, they are accompanied by loss of consciousness of the object of these memories and this creates negative feelings. Pictures stored in the exhibition seem to confirm this relationship. "Memories of the past year related to the Polish penetrate in the form of images, in varying degrees, clear, almost completely blurred, where he barely loom form and light-saturated idyll, the very real trees in autumn, filled with color, the smell of wild leaves, wind noise, piercing cold, and frosty creaking under the feet of snow [9] . " Photographs are a common feature: the fuzzy, indistinct outline, picture, "viewed the fog", which makes a fleeting impression, not entirely accessible. Artist using this procedure [10] appealed to the selectivity, imperfections of memory, which memories are fleeting, over time increasingly blurred. "I myself spent in exile almost as old as Chopin and often returned to a similar sentimental memory painted images - rural roads, fields of red poppies, and weeping willows [11] ." These types of landscapes dominate the exhibition. We are looking at portraits of people dancing, singing in folk costumes. Using a layer of color managed to get Sikora twofold effect. Juxtaposed bright contrasting colors of red, blue, green form optimistic fairy-tale, idyllic rural images. Such combination of colors are often used in folk art. "I've always wanted to take pictures of very colorful, even unnaturally exaggerated [12] ." The photographs from a predominance of browns, grays, blacks are building a mood of melancholy and even sadness. As the author points out "in these photographs must have been something of a climate of his music [13] ." With this in mind, it is worth recalling tick l [14] Jerzy Duda-Gracz, in which each of the tracks Chopin has a painterly equivalent, in a kind of "portrait". Comparing the work of both artists to easily point out the landscape as the dominant theme and a similar range of color.

in portraits of musicians, singers also highlight contrasting bold colors. On one of the pictures show a man playing the accordion, he seems not to notice the photographer, his big blue eyes are turned slightly upward. This way upozowania form, close cropping resemble watercolor portraits of children by Wyspianski, including even "head Helena" (1900). Another group of images is a form of stylized images of nineteenth-century costumes. Their presence is likely to suggest that this may look like people from the vicinity of Chopin - mother, sisters, friends. Photos seem to refer to the Degas paintings (including the Bellelli family portraits) and Manet ("Bartender", 1882). Combines them to build layered space in subsequent successive plans. Sikora was used for this purpose, a mirror that appears in the central part of one of the photos. The reflected image of the interior of the room reveals the presence of a third woman standing behind a lady in white dress, barely visible around the corner wall. Against the background of the previous photograph said a group of photos is characterized by a certain amount of staging, as reflected in the costumes the models, the selection of props. Interestingly, the lack of behavioral models. The reason for this is the way to work the photographer: "To create an image, you must first create the fun. But it must be shared fun, shared experience of participating in the session people. And at some point I have become a completely transparent, discreetly go to those people that did not suffer, did not notice. I photographed [15] . " Earlier examples of photography aranżowanej in the artist is mentioned a series of "Alice in Wonderland" (1979).

He emphasizes that in addition to photos of staged an important place in his business deals reportage. "I think that my photography is a stable relationship with photojournalism [16] ." Sikora loves to capture spontaneous situations: "stand on the street - this is cinema, after all. How much is going on here! The guy steals a car, a couple kissing ...". Similarly, some of the photographs appearing in the exhibition demonstrate his ability to observe. On one of these men in suits carry feretory the figure of Christ. The presentation allows you to guess that they participate in a solemn procession in honor of God. Photo Sikora reminds us that the presence of a second image of Christ - the image is visible in the window. Thus the situation becomes a bit comical and grotesque.

Mielcarz Beatrice (1985) - art historian, a graduate of Catholic University

Exhibition: Tomasz Sikora, "Chopin and his nostalgia"

15.04 - 15.05.2011 The

Gallery "stairs", ul. Bernardyńska 14a, Lublin

Photos:

Programmes and Promotion Department - Youth Culture No. 2 in Lublin

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[1] 16.09-29.10.2010 the Gallery asymmetry in Warsaw presented a series of "Alice ..."

[2] T. Sikora, Chopin, the composer's moods in the photographic images Tomek Sikora , Warsaw, 2010.

[3] The Lublin exhibition at the Youth Culture House No. 2 at. St Bernard's is presented in some of the pictures.

[4] T. Sikora, Nostalgia Chopin Stock Tomek Sikora [exhibition catalog], Youth Culture House No. 2, Lublin 2011, p. 3

[5] http://cosiestalo.pl/ramka.php?idnews=1436956

[6] About 60 years ago "nostalgia" was defined as a longing for their native country.

[7] http://www.rjp.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=324&Itemid=67

[8] This conclusion comes from research conducted by Dr. Anna Braniecką in 2010 from the School of Social Psychology, http://studia.dlastudenta.pl/artykul/Z_nostalgii_mozna_czerpac_korzysci, 65484.html

[9] T. Sikora, Chopin and his nostalgia , Nostalgia Chopin Stock Tomek Sikora [ exhibition catalog], Youth Culture No. 2, Lublin, p. 3

[10] Photos of past projects of the artist: "Flying to Morocco", "Heard in the Silence" also had a fuzzy, blurry picture.

[11] http://lublin.gazeta.pl/lublin/1, 69005.9466896, Wokol_ESK__Kazdy_zakatek_Kazimierza_ma_swoj_urok.html

[12] http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-tsi.html

[13] http://lublin.gazeta.pl / lublin / 1,69005,9466896, Wokol_ESK__Kazdy_zakatek_Kazimierza_ma_swoj_urok.html

[14] biggest series in the history of Polish art after 1945. Consists of work akwarelowo-tempera, oil paintings, shrouds.

[15] http://tygodnik.onet.pl/1, 18691, druk.html

[16] http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-tsi.html