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Jan Głowacki (Polska — Italy)

“Paintings and drawings”

08. 11. 2011 – Tuesday
1 pm
Łódź Culture Centre, ul. Traugutta 18, Old Gallery

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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Jan Głowacki — searching painter by rev. Witold Broniewski

Jan Głowacki – painter, drawer, stained-glass maker, essayist, born in Warsaw in 1911 – died in Rome in 1985. Born in a Warsaw patrician family, very early came into contact with arts and culture. Came close with death during the war times. Deported after the Uprising to Vienna, managed to reach the Anders Army in Italy. Together with a group of young art students He received an excellent "initiation" into the world of art thanks to such a great man as professor Marian Bohusz-Szyszko. After a short stay in Great Britain, he came back to the rest of his life to Rome. Here he completed artistic studies and with time grew into the Polish and Italian environment. His impeccable manner and creativity evolved around such spheres as European, Christian and Polish – to name just a few.

He was also very eccentric, which resulted from his passion for aestheticism and landscape. He placed very high standards for his art and would never even consider creating for public’s sake only. He belong to those who consider creation as vocation and thus a way of life.

He combined solitude with a taste for meetings and conversations. He would never escape from difficult subjects. Even though he rejected communism, he never refrained from contacts with people entangled in "the (party) system". Though he knew nazism from experience, he did not avoid the Germans. He was particularly fond of students and professors coming from Poland. He used to be their "cicerone" and a shoulder to cry on, sometimes a teacher that for some of them meant turning a new leaf. Though poor himself, he would share with others both time and place at home. He also had some people on whom he’d rely.

If I were to describe Jan Głowacki in one phrase, I’d say: a searching man. In more than one respect. He would reach out for meaningful pieces – not only literary ones. He was able to reach for a theological book, a rare thing among people nowadays.

There is not much he left behind – a few oil paintings and a massive amount of drawings made with a sponge and a stick. His stained-glasses are very few. But it is not his fault that stained-glass is a rare thing in Rome.

His essays are yet another thing in his oeuvre – on the edge of art and religion. And they deserve a separate comment.

If his drawings were made in a flash, his paintings developer similarly to the trees. He was in no rush here at all. Another thing is that very often he had no money for the paints.

His drawings could be put in cycles. There are quite a few Roman motifs. He was particularly fond of ancient and baroque Rome. He would not forget the Roman times either. Głowacki looked up to St Francis, thus Franciscan subjects that he left behind. Another thing is the works connected with the Virgin Mary. Or with Passion. The Saints were also close to him. Perhaps the most fascinating turned out to be the landscapes. He was charmed by the trees, the sea and water. He would present them in various ways. Sometimes at night, dramatically, sometimes in a more musical way or more poetically. One can find fragments of prose at the back of his drawing, e.g. Achmatova. His works he’d call mystical on occasions.

One could think that this man was engrossed by nature. Głowacki would often wait for some inspiration.

It could have been that Jan took a bundle of memories from e.g. "Zachęta Gallery", he often recollected Malczewski’s paintings.

He could not come back to Poland. But he had the privilege of freedom. He was one of those for whom the sacred subjects came out of inner need. Much ahead of Polish independent culture, a some kind of Christian renaissance on the banks of the Vistula River during the civil war times.

His oeuvre had been practically unknown in Poland for many years. The author of this piece is aware of some exhibitions only. Appropriate foundations did not seem interested. Jan Głowacki deserves the justice and deserves to be saved from being forgotten. Safe journey!