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This year Kazimir Głaz an
aitist who has been Iwincj in
Toronto sińce 19GS is cełe-bratin- g the 25 arlistic anni-tersar-y Ile participated in
ihe "Warsaw Arsenał" in
1955 ivhiłe still a student at
ihe Wrocław PWSSP
The anniversary is inarked
by tiuo łarge exhibitions of
his pjoiks A retrospective of
his prinis done in Canada
ichich iook płace at the O ula-li- o Institute for Studies in
Education in Toronto in May
and a shoto of his paintings
and prints which wiłl be held
in Wrocław this coming Sep-temb- er The show is orgamz-e- d
by the Union of Aitists
and BWA and wiłl inangurate
the neio crhibition pavilion
in that city
T h i s anlobiographical
sltetch will appear in the
catałogue of his tvoiks lohich
will be pubłished by BWA
(Art Gallery) in Wrocław
I'1L allcmpt to tell about
myself and my work through
impressions ralher than ana-lytical- ly
Twenty-fiv- e years
— it's a long period in one's
life but in relalion to ąrl
time has different nieaning
It seems that therć isn't a
greater sense in all this that
a lot in it is chance and
gioping in tho dark My in-struct-ors
however good
were not able to give me
morę than whal Ihey thćm-selve- s
were capablc of under-standin- g
For theirs was the
experience of a diffcrcnt
generation We were lłving
in stormy limes so that the
six years of art studies was
at the same time a period
of formation and unprece-dente- d
de formation
I studied at the Siato Col-lege
of Fine Art in Wrocław
during the years 1950-5- 0 a
time of change I began when
Socialist Realism was being
introduced into art schools
A meec! for
I' am wiiling this article
as a supplement to one writ-te- n
by Marc Paul re: "Com-mille- e
For Defence of Humań
Riglits: Połes and Jews"
(Zioiązkoioiec April i6
1980) I was disturbed by the
nccessity of Mr Paul to re-spo- nd
in a vigorous fasliion
to alleged anli-Polis- h remarks
by a number of diffcrcnt in-dividu- als
across Canada It
is particulary disturbing lo
realize that there remains a
latent hostility belwecn Ihe
different groups in Canada
clespite Ihe veneer of the
Canadian mosaic The article
by Mr Paul rcveals two im-porla- nl factors operating in
Canada which must be deall
with: (a) religious ethno-centris- m
and prejudice and
(b) the deeper malady of dis-unit- y
evcn conflict among
the ethnic groups in this
country
I Ihink that it is important
to point out to all our Jewish
friends and lo all anli-Polis- h
individuals that the histori-ca- l
facts revcal a gencrally
posilive relationship belween
Poles and Jews in Poland
Except for perhaps two spe-cific
periods (in the first half
of the eightcenth century
and in the eailyto mid —
]930s) Poland has been one
of the most open-mindc- d
countries in the worłd lo-war- ds
the Jewish fact Reli-gious
loleration dates back
cfficially to Kaziemierz Wiel-ki
(1333—1370) w ho fhsl
codified minoiily riglits
It is truć that there were
sporadic outl)ursts of anti-Semitis- m
yet in the second
half of the scventecnlh cen-tury
when anti-Semiti- c po-gro- ms
becamc commonplacc
in Easlern Europę Jews slow-l- y
began migrating to and
seltling in Poland specifi-cally
to find a refuge
Mr Paul has presenled an
cxcellcnt synlhesis of lle
efforts of Poles during the
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of any organization
and gradualed when that
policy ended I was the first
student fi om my generation
to present diploma work in
semi-abstra- ct form In 1955
while still a student my
work was adinitled to the re-Yolulion- ary National Exhibi-tio- n
of Art which took place
at the Warsaw Arsenał From
that event began a new pe-riod
in fine arts in Poland
and for me an intuitive
searching Youlhful confi-denc- e
enables one to build
arlistic concepls which laler
must be proven through cre-ativ- e
realizalion
In 1955 I movcd to the
mining city of Wałbrzych on
a scholarsliip from Ihe Minis-tr- y
of Cullurc with tho pur-pos- e of inlroducing visual
arls and organizing an arlis-tic
community to this city
which itself had a black and
while graphic — like char-acte- r
To starł I designed a
Iw o-slor- ey high abstract
poster for the film festival
11 provoked a slrong reaclion
that helped me lo attract a
large number of young en-Ihusia- sts
soon to become an
active crcative group of
ąctors directors journalisls
and visual arlisls Besides
teacliing designing and pro-motin- g
visual arts I had
enough energy for my own
creative work I engraved
large woodculs atlempting to
Iranspose this exotic and
majestic landscape in semi-abstra- cl
form Howcver in-splri- ng
the subject malter
my inleresl was in finding
the adeąuate means of ex-pressio- n:
translating Ihe ex-lern- al
landscape into an
inner one I had to usc a
new set of rules By analogy
this can be compared to the
learning of a foreign lan-guage
I consider the time spent
in Wałbrzych as a useful cx-perien- ce
Leaving the city al
trae Mmi Mcmi toralism
second world war to help
their Jewish compatriots lo
the best of their abilities
within tlie limitations of the
prevailing climate
The second issue at slake
is that of ethnic disunity in
Canada as evidenced by the
scurrilous anti-Polis- h aiticlc
by Bill Clark in The Burnaby
Times of Vancouver The na-turę
and the lonc of that
ai licie were discussed by Mr
Paul howcver he failed to
address himself to the morę
fundamenlal issue involved
which is that of cultural
antagonism
It is a disturbing yet true
facl that in Canada many
ethnic groups have conlinued
their old historie blood
feuds allacking the value
the purpose even the integri-l-y
of one anothcr's cultures
The state of cultural conflicl
can be observcd quite readily
in our everyday lives as
Polish and Ukrainian indi-vidua- ls
refuse to converse
with one another or German
and Polish individuals get
into figlils at the Caravan
events
Exhibitions of cultural and
nalional belligerency are not
only demeaning and lolally
unacccptable they are also
completly out of place here
in Canada Canada's unique
mullicullural mosaic was a
dcliberalely developed soeial
stiucturc designed to pre-serv- e
the soeial and psycho-logic- al
advantages of cultural
identificalion while at the
same time inlegrating Ihe in-dividu-als
into the Canadian
milieu The inlention of Ihe
mosaic today is designed to
promole and fosler harmony
cultural cxchanges mulual
understanding and coopera-tio- n
The inlention is not lo
develop nations within a na-tio- n
or states within a state
where old and Jong-burie-d
riyaleries may be fought out
or where ethnic nationalists
the end of 1958 having been
awarded its artistic prize I
relurned to Wrocław bring-in- g
with me Sensibilism my
new aitislic philosophy
which Ihen expressed ilself
among a large number of
young people through spon-laneo- us
activities in the
tliealre and the visual arls
In those days Wrocław
looked almost like Montmar-Ir- e
at ist peak The city vi-brat- ed
with artistic concepts
nol only in the visual arts
Young poets writers experi-rnenl- al
tlieatres groups in
cpposition lo cach other —
all this expressed itself in
specific languages and a rich
soeial life
The need for discovcring
new areas of experience and
feeling and Ihe crossing of
boundaries specifically re-sult- ed
in the organization of
a tour to Moscow and Lenin-grad
in 1962 From this
outing I smugglcd back new
impressions previously un-kno- wn lo rnc Restlessness
values previously unknown lo
me Anxiely a fascination
with invisible Ihings the
need for search beyond the
ni a l e r i a 1 s p h e r e This
was no longcr the trans-positio- n
of a mining land-scape
Elemenls of linie and
emotion superimposed them-selve- s
crcaling ą picture
wilhoul contours and specific
contenl An open space
which it was necessary lo
fili willi a new synlhesis To
express spirilual mallers
ones which could not be
grasped Above all Ihe im-pressi-on
of St Basil's Cliurch
(during a period of recon-slructio- n
at the linie) re-niain- ed
fixcd for a long time
A series of empty chapels
bared lo the bricks where a
single icon filled the interior
with a scream like effecls '
A similąr impression was
lcft willi me years laler when
can hurl insulls at one an-other
in an attempl to de-fam- e
''different" cultures
Indeed the beautiful aspect
of our country is the fact that
it enables us to learn about
new and different cultures
to come and appreciate the
charaeleristies of their Iradi-lion- s
and bełiefs
Every ethnic group was at
one time or another the ob-je- cl
of scorn and abusc unlil
it was able to eslablish ilself
morę firmly in this country
Many people continue to be
viclimized and Fm surę that
most of us have encountered
al one limc in our lives the
unpleasant experience of
being attacked either verbal-l- y
or physically on account
of our ethnic or religious
identily Givcn these events
we sliould try Iherefore to
help new etnic groups and
ercate slrong ties of friend-shi- p
with others instead of
jumping on the bandwągon
of prejudice Considering all
possibilities we could find
ourselves being victimized
once again in the futurę and
no one may bother helping
us bccausc of our passivity
lowards them in Ihe present
I ani not against mulli-culluralis- m
bul I do believe
that our allegiancc first and
forcmost belong to Canada
the country where we live
where we work where we go
lo school where we prosper
Conseąuently we should try
lo promole mulual coopera-tio- n
inslead of hoslile co-cxisten- ce
we should slrive
lowards harmony inslead of
disunity We can follow the
example of first and second
generation Canadians who
put asidc ethnic religious
and racial differences and
inslead inteimingle and inler-a-ct
willi one another Indeed
we should strive lo ercate a
true cultural mosaic not a
forum for quasi-illyiicis- m
Michael Minkowski
I'viiJited nnjEgyptian tempie
being recdnstrtltldd in Ma-dri- d in connectioh ith tho
preservatioh of the Aswan
ihdnuments Buf this time I
knew that this space sculpt-e- d
in ldeal proportions
should not be peópled On
the contrary this silenco
this sculplod silenco was in
ilself the highest vallte
My "Moscow Impressions"
caused a chain óf reactlons
which in the end had a largo
influence on my life Sevćral
paintings from this series
cxhibited at the National Ex-hibiti- on
of Painting in Sopot
in 1965 won me a prize an
aitistic scholarsliip and were
also chosen for the IV Inter-national
Biennial in Paris
There by a curious coinci-denc- e
the exhibition was
yisited by Marc Chagall who
as he later told me in a con-versali- on
was moved by the
"power of trancjuility" and
rcacted by presenting me
with his own Erasmus Prize
from Holland
I musi admit that this was
a pleasanl surprize for me
Being in Paris at the limę
I could and in consequence
had lo exlend my slay lo
remain and paint in France
for the next 3 years
This period was a tiirie of
ąuile intensive work on many
levels Studies or ralher
their fuli completion includ-in- g
that of tlie French lang-uag- e
Sighlseeing and creati-v-e
work Nights and daysal-way- s
fuli of impressions and
new discovcries A slow ad-aptati- on
and a continous self-defen- ce
against facile in-trigui- ng
formulations
Wilhoul a doubl assistanco
came from my stay in the
south of France In the
spring of 1966 I found my-self
in Vence a smali town
on the Cole d'Azur "The City
of Flowers and Art" as pro-claim- ed
by tiie sign al the
entranco lo this bewitching
seaside centrę Fąmous art-isl- s
and writers had been
living herc for many years
already My meeling and ac-quainlan- ce
willi Witold Gom-browicz
belong lo the most
yaluable lemembrances from
this Urno That was a diffe-rent
school Gombrowicz's
It lasted for three summers
I returned to Paris during Ihe
winlers and it wąs the ex-ceplion- al
occasioh lo grasp
the few elementaiy malters
concerning art At leąsl so
it appeared to me It was a
time of living a different
dimension
Fascinated by the vibrating
light of the south one which
creates mirages I built my
visual concepts I called these
''Vibration du Midi" and
painted many works altempt-in- g
to capture this intriguing
and constantly-changin- g
liglit Resultingly this light
was laler lo emanate from
tlie surface of the canvas or
paper: I wasn't hiterested in
the trąnsposilions of land-scape
or realistic forms any-mor- e
The principal idea was
lo give light to my post-Mosco- w
motifs yel lllumi-nat- e
them give them the
colours of the south But
laler even this wasn't
enough I wanted to cut my-self
off from delusions from
creating illusions to capture
this light in almost physical
sense Thus were created my
three-diniension- al composi-tion- s which I named
"l-hyth- m light" These were
constructions from tin piąte
and plastic netting placed
several cenlimetres belween
themselves Here the light
entered and lefl reflecting
from Ihe plate as many limes
as was physically possible
Afler these realizalions I
had Ihe impression that I had
been able to succeed in
coming close lo a certain
stale of plastic searching
which once and for all would
free me from limitations pre-scribe- d
lo painters However
ii was a thinking not yet
freed from the objęci Light
traps
Toward the end of 1968 I
undertook a new decision of
an overseas journey I cle-cid- ed
to go to Canada This
was a result of a romantic
meeling and the decision to
make ą family life as docs
many a time happen to
people working in "unreal
world" I wasn'l able to re-alize
this bul the trip caused
such a chain of positive re-aclio- ns
that I've remained on
this conlinent for morę than
ten years This was a new ex-perien- ce
for mc fuli of con-Iras- ls
in ą different realily
one not given to definition
Siluated between Europę and
the United States ntid
weakerted by lis system of
thinking Canada was prćci-sel- y
an excellent plade for
the (?'valttation and revis!on
of estahlished ideas and
hsbits
LiVJng iii Toronto on Lako
Ontario I deVoted myself to
various organizational acti-viti- es
as once in Wałbrzych
To be independent of exist-in- g
instltutions I began a
centrę -- for contemporary art
I laught for several years but
al)ove all I continued to work
on personal realizalions
Through a 'Series of many
(10 portfolios) lithographs I
havo atlemted to translale
visualize all those concerns
which slowly becamc closer
to me and which I had to
realize so that I could see
them "Esoteric" "Power of
Silende" "In the Search of
Meaning in Silence ' — these
are several titles which show
the scope of themes an in-lere- sts
during Ihe coursc of
the last elght years
Paraphrasing Gombrowicz
I can say that: the artist
creates the" art and the
language which he employes
is artificial in all the circum-stance- s
Form is needed in
case of eommunication with
others The artist himself
does nol require form in
yisual thinking To liberale
oneself from this conven-lion- al
form lo create as if
one was creating for oneself
To resolve space by mcans of
light colour is necessary but
to get as close to truth as
the materiał limitalion will
allow of means with which
one operates
I wanted to introduce si-lence
as an "eąlilyalent visual
element with thsald of which
one could consiruct plastic
yalues as one can construct
the valile of soilnd In musie
Visunl płeturea as conve"yors
of ideas associations ex-pefienc- es
omotións of ab-stract
specitlation do not
interesl me I want to free
myself from the idea of a
single piclure vtherefore I
piefor to work through se-ries
in which the pheno-meno- n
of time-oecur- s and
which give a greater possibi-lil- y
of cleanliness of plastic
conceplion
Inleiitlonally 1 use a tech-niqtt- e
of colour mixlure so
that 1 can blend thousąnds
of concerns in ono hancl and
leave a tracę which will In-tegra- te
itself with light stop
limc register changes
During the period of my
Canadian sojourn I would
often return lo Europę Al-most
ovcry year lo visil and
quieten that need of longlng
after somelhing familiar and
near From the fiords to tlie
Bosphorus lo the farlhcsl
rcaclies of the Medilerranean
I crossed this nativc conli-nent
many times so that I
could once moro affirm my
concept
A mulliludencs of things
super-impose- s itself blurs
and fixes ilself on the image
of a vibrating smudge from
which if one wants to one
can brłng forth iilteJesling
dctails
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tej samej pracy jest niesłuszne i bezprawne
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