The Pole Jan Niksinski lived and worked in the guest studio of the Province of Salzburg
For some years now, the province has had a guest studio in the Salzburg Künstlerhaus. Artists from all countries can live and work here under favourable conditions.
The most intimate contribution in the Eastern European section of the Triennial is shown by Poland. Alongside the Hungarian exhibition, it is certainly the most striking.
Polish prints, mostly dark and bright counterpoints to broadly pessimistic themes, reflect “traces of destruction”. A high level of craftsmanship contributes to the fact that these works are characterised by the “light”.
Programmes on Polish poetry and literature complement Jan Niksinski’s exhibition at the Zyndikat Gallery. On the evening of 1 March 1985 there will be a reading by the author of the book “Pole, who are you?”, Witold Wirpsza. The Zyndikat Gallery is increasingly focussing on Eastern European artists in connection with art that has to fight against political censorship.
The Gallery of the Association of Slovenian Artists in Ljubljana has recently been making more and more of an effort to inform us about the artistic developments and creative achievements of artists from neighbouring and other countries, which is more than welcome in these days when the flow of written information has almost completely stopped due to the lack of foreign currency.
It is no secret that the Warsaw School of Graphic Arts is known all over the world. Many people are interested in the central motifs of Polish artists, which are also the traditions of the nation’s ancestors. Many are interested in the situation of Polish artists, which are also linked to the traditions and history of the nation’s ancestors. It is no coincidence, however, that Polish artists also pose questions about cultural identity and the fates and failures of other nations.
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Studied (1973) at the Faculty of Pedagogy at the University of Gdansk, then at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Gdansk at the Faculty of Graphic Design in Gdansk at the Faculty of Graphic Design. In 1975-78 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Graphic Design.
„In June, Luiza’s garden is in fullest bloom, Its non-existence kills, like an axe“
This quote from Andrzej Bursa’s poem could be the motto of my whole artistic creation. In a perspicacious way, it defines the phenomenon of the transcendence of art which tries to be more than a banal, interim, journalistic illustration that is, unfortunately, so characteristic of many contemporary works of art.
Text written for the book ‘Es war Leben, kein Schauspiel’ published by the Polish Institute in Vienna in 2015 on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Open Theatre in Poland.
This is the title of my exhibition, which I had in 2009 in Warsaw at the Austrian Cultural Forum. In this exhibition, I tried to show everything about my collaboration with TheaterMëRZ from Gaza, so a photographic documentation of my stage designs for this theatre, a montage of recordings of many performances, as well as posters and flyers that I designed for TheaterMëRZ.
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