The appearance captured in the photo does not deceive, this really is a colourful character that matches perfectly the look. He was born into a rich, art loving family, nevertheless he soon left home only to live a life of a genuine artistic bohemia. He started his career twice. Once in Holland where he escaped …
By using a very frequent element in Florian Doru Crihana’s work, namely a metaphor, we could call him Don Quixote of satirical painting. Within the area in which we are prepared to face strong expression, his paintings are striking with their pastel tones and gentleness, in some of us they provoke associations with an idyll. …
Florian Doru Crihana. LEGNICA – SATIRICAL IMPRESSIONS Przeczytaj całość
Exhibitions International ExhibitionSATYRYKON – Legnica 2014Copper Museum in Legnica(6 July – 31 August 2014) FLORIAN DORU CRIHANALEGNICA – satirical impressionsRING Gallery in Legnica(9 June – 31 July 2014) SHARP-EYE SKILLSKatowice Fine Arts Academy students’ exhibitionModrzejewska Theatre, Legnica (4 June – 30 August 2014) GEORGE VAN RAEMDONCK – drawingsSATYRYKON Gallery in Legnica(5 June – 31 July 2014) Catalogues Satyrykon …
They would have been present in Legnica in their special way anyway. However, don’t the memory tables, designed by Tomasz Broda, reflect our warmest thoughts of Them?Zygmunt Januszewski himself was the author of the previously unveiled plaques, which makes impossible to capture the rush of feelings and reflections over this special situation… ZYGMUNT JANUSZEWSKI (1956-2013)A graphic …
Zygmunt Januszewski, Tomasz Jura. In memoriam Przeczytaj całość
interview with Jacek Staniszewski Satyrykon: Your posters are often referred to as hard, controversial, scandalous. However, your Satyrykon series, despite including its perverse sense of humour, is rather subtle, poetic and inspiring a lot of various associations. I was just about to ask whether you’d dropped scandals and hard means for more indirect thought provoking …
13th June 2014 (Friday) International ExhibitionSATYRYKON – Legnica 2014Copper Museum in Legnica SATYRYKON 2014post-competition exhibition opening –ul. NMP in Legnica (near Satyrykon Knave Statue)13th June 2014, 5.00 p.m.(before opening – unveiling of memory tables dedicated toZygmunt Januszewski and Tomasz Jura) FLORIAN DORU CRIHANA LEGNICA – satirical impressionsRING Gallery in Legnicaexhibition opening 13th June, 6.30 p.m. GEORGE VAN RAEMDONCK – drawingsSATYRYKON Gallery …
Jacek Staniszewski Satyrykon has been for years one of the most important and prestigious international competitions in its category. It has always stood out with the extent and quality of the selected works. This year it also distinguishes from the previous editions with a spirited, in my opinion, organisers’ decision: a jury comprising only women. …
International Exhibition SATYRYKON – Legnica 2014 Przeczytaj całość
interview with Florian Doru Crihana Satyrykon: You are famous for the fact that you choose the topics of your cycles very carefully. These are not just ordered pieces, the topic has to be important and interesting to you. You are the author of the series of paintings dedicated to Don Kichote, Titanic, Eiffel Tower and …
interview with Ronald Vanoystaeyen Satyrykon: The exhibition of drawings by George van Raemdonck refers to the period of 1st World War, was it a good time for him? Ronald Vanoystaeyen: This period was for him like a knife that cuts on both sides: 1) a terrible time for him and his family, 2) a time of …
