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Polska - Travel Memories

POLAND

I haven’t been there in such a long time but

For some reason I often still think about one

Particular image that reminds of the nation.

The strawberry kiosks on the street corners.

Folks selling fresh strawberries on the ends

Of the roads, and the blood red intensity of

The berries … And, the ironical mix of the

Alcohol shops dotted around the streets, mixed,

Almost door to door, with the pharmacy shops.

So, you would see the neon lights of the alcohol

Stores in one place and then twenty yards down

The street there would be the green neon beam

Of an APTEXA sign. Health and poison aligned.

But there are far many other visions and memorial

Content, too. It’s just that they are swirled up

In a type of dreamland that I rarely want to

Go back to, because I miss this country so much,

And the person that I used to visit there with –

I miss her as horrifically as any mental pain

I can describe in any of my writing. But, I

Suppose that by writing about this country

It can be a type of therapy. And so here goes.

The city I spent the most time in was Lodz.

A huge town with a population of around

700 000 people. And we would head through

The city on the wasp coloured trams that

Dinged and danged with their bells, along

The streets that were often filled with weeds

And under the tall buildings that were often

Left cracked and dilapidated. Sometimes

Because nobody was living in them and

Other times because they were still ruins

From the war. And, on so many walls nearby

That you glanced, there was football graffiti.

Or, other slogans that I didn’t know the

Origin of. Whenever you walked out on the

Street you were aware of high rises in the

Distance. Some folks find them ugly but I’ve

Always found them pretty in an off key way.

Those were hard fat bulky Soviet buildings

Of concrete that yomped up way high in the

Sky and there must’ve been hundreds of

People living in each domino set that you

Looked at: and they were dazed and delirious

In the central European sun. We would

Ride out to the outer parts of the city and

The flats would just go on and on into the

Distance. And whenever we rode on the trams or

On the train it always took thirty minutes to get

Anywhere – the town was that huge. Industrial.

We went to museums of textile works, ex-factories.

There was the sense that this city was one of

Working people, of GDP, of output. And yet it

Was still obliterated by warfare and mass crime,

Even in the late quarter of the 21 century.

We went to the Jewish cemetery, far, far away

From where we were staying. And it remains

One of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

For reasons that I don’t need to explain.

And most of the graveyards were surrounded by

Lofty trees in full bloom. Was a sunny day

When we went there. And the graves weren’t

Proper graves. They were merely little

Placards that stung meekly out of the soil,

And most of them didn’t have names. Just bodies,

Under the earth. Skeletons. … And, my girl

And I went travelling out of Lodz a lot, too,

Between Warsaw and Opole and Krakow.

Thus, I witnessed much of the dense countryside

Between the cities. And the fields were rich

And lush and they almost didn’t belong to the

Hard urbanity of the towns. There were still

Houses by the farms, but most of it was a series

Of long landscaped fields, flat and dazed in blue

Yellow, and hooker’s green. … And I remember

One time walking with her, and her parents,

And her mother said, “There was a great battle

Here, back in the war. Against the Nazis.”

And, we were literally just walking through

This angelic countryside. It was surreal

To hear her mention the Nazis so casually.

That they had been on this very turf,

70 years earlier, with their Blitzkrieg rage.

Her mother and father spoke only in English

To me; but I tried a few times with Polish,

And they found it funny, because my accent

Was so awful. But, when they were all speaking

In their own tongue, I liked the sound of their

Language and how it crashed and thrashed

With noises I couldn’t understand. It had

A rough, clumsy, dance-like quality to it:

That Slavic thing that I wished I knew how to

Speak. But there was very little chance,

Considering all of their cases, and so on.

Or, maybe I wasn’t smart enough to learn it

Properly. … But in those summers, too, there

Were the football tournaments. And, because

Polska are usually a decent football team,

They were often involved in the competitions.

This was unusual for me, since I come

From Scotland. And so the city squares and

The main streets would be filled with folks

Wearing soccer shirts, and there would be

Huge public TVs; and there was steaming pierogi,

And gaudy piwo [which is always high strength

In Poland, no matter which brand you pick]

And there would be an eruption whenever

There was a goal. Even though it was unlikely

That Poland would win the tournament it

Was still glorious to be involved.

When the games were over we would head

Elsewhere in the city and sit by the thick river and

Dabble at those intense beers. Yeah, I remember

Being in Warsaw by the Vistula and it was

Maybe eight in the evening and still piping

Hot and Poland was still throbbing and pulsing

With hundreds of other folks lacing the steps

By the bankside. The nation had been through

So much mayhem throughout its history,

And yet it was still here: there was a whole

Generation here by the banks of this mammoth

River: and even though I was a foreigner,

I still felt a part of the generation.

No, I wasn’t Slavic: but I loved this nation indeed.

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Polish artist Pawel Bownik (born 1977) makes large-format photographs inspired by the classic iconography of historical still lifes, genre painting and 1940s American cinema aesthetics. By carefully dissecting and reconstructing the elementary components of his subjects, he examines the artificiality of the medium.

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contact: michalinasuminska@gmail.com

She was born in 1994 in Warsaw, Poland. She is currently studying at Faculty of Graphics and Painting, at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. She specializes in serigraphy. In 2016 She took a part in Erasmus student Programme - she studied abroad at ESAD College of Art and Design, Matosinhos, Portugal. In June 2018 she took a part in VII International Symposium at the Artistic University Centre of Culture and Art at “Dwór Kossaków” in Górki Wielkie 2018. In September 2018 Michalina participated in the FLASH DRAWING TOUR - Urbino - Fano - Pietrarubbia - International Symposium of the Intaglio Techniques Studio at the KAUS Urbino International Art Centre in Italy. Apart that she frequently takes a part in exhibitions and contests:

AWARDS:

- 22.11.2018 - First prize at 12th competition for students “Small graphic form” organized by Amcor Gallery , Łódź, Poland

- 23.08.2018 - Honorary mention in international poster contest “Vielfalt ist Kunst!/ Różnorodność to sztuka!/ Diversity is an art!”, Berlin, Germany

- 15.06.2018 - First prize of Zofia Kossak during VII International Symposium at the Artistic University Centre of Culture and Art at “Dwór Kossaków” in Górki Wielkie, Poland

- 12.04.2018 - Prize sponsored by Olimpia S. A., contest “Strzemiński Projekt 2018”, Łódź, Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:

- 14.11.2018 -  “Zapis \ Transcript” - Exhibition of silkscreen artworks; “Gallery of Flat Print 14”; Rzeszów University, Al. mjr. W. Kopisto 2a, Rzeszów

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

- 28.02.2019 - CARMO AND THE HEART OF DARKNESS - Arts in the Public Sphere; Sala Vieira da Silva Maison Andre Gouveia, Paris, France

- 06.02.2019 - CARMO AND THE HEART OF DARKNESS - Arts in the Public Sphere; Sala Iberia, Cuenca, Spain

- 05.12.18 -  "O!świecenie", Exhibition of finalist of Graphic contest named after Jan Feliks Piwarski; Gabinet Rycin BUW, ul. Dobra 56/66, Warszawa

-  22.11.2018 -  Laureats’ Exhibition of “12th contest for small students graphic form”; Gallery Amcor, Aleksandrowska 55 street, Łódź

- 11.11.2018 - “Za wolność / For Liberty” - The Academy of Fine Arts students’ exhibition of the works from Poster Studio and Textile Workshop; Central Museum of Textiles ,Piotrkowska 282, Łódź

- 25.09.2018 - „Metal is cool / Flash Drawing Tour 2018: Urbino/Fano/Pietrarubbia” - The exhibition of the Intalgio Workshop; Oratorio San Giovanni Battista Sala Salimbeni, via Barocci 31 25, Italy

- 23.08.2018 - “Vielfalt ist Kunst\1/Różnorodność to sztuka!/Diversity is an art!” - Międzynarodowa wystawa plakatów; Instytut Polski w Berlinie, Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin, Germany

- 19.06-11.07.2018 -  "Mikstury \ Mixtures" - Nationwide Exhibition of Graphics accompanying The Final of II edition of Festival “Mikstury Kultury”; National Forum of Music, plac Wolności 1 street,  Wroclaw

-22.06 - 12.07.2018 - “Eksperymentarium i goście \ The Association Eksperymentarium and the guests” - Gallery ASP, Piotrkowska 68 Street, Łódź

- 17.04.2018 - “Innowacje w Grafice \ Innovation in Printmaking” - Exhibition of students’ artistic Graphics; Gallery “Pomiędzy”, Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts, Wojska Polskiego 121 street, Lódź

- 21 - 22.02.2018 - Laureats’ Exhibition “Konkurs im. Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi - Projekt 2018 \ Contest named after Władyslaw Strzemiński - Project 2018”, Art Inkubator, Tymienieckiego 3 street, Lodz

- 09 - 23.11.2016 - “Harenda/Soczewka 2016” - Students’ ASP Exhibition of painting from open air in Soczewka; Gallery ASP, Piotrkowska 68 street, Łódź

- 2.10.2016 - “Wystawa prac studentów z Pracowni Podstaw Grafiki Warsztatowej 209 \ Exhibition of Students work from studio of Basic Graphic Workshop 209”; Gallery ASP, ul, Piotrkowska 68 street, Łódź

- 16.12.2016 - 31.01 2017 - „Nowa przestrzeń. Czwarta wystawa prac studentów ASP / News space. IV exhibition of ASP students ”; at Filharmony named after A. Rubinsteina, Narutowicza 20/22 street, Łódź

- 01 - 31.05.2016 - “Otwarta wystawa / An Open Exhibition” - An Exhibition of the students from Graphic Basics Studio at Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts , Wojska Polskiego 121 street, Łódź

- 11 - 25.09.2015 - “INTERAKCJE / INTERACTIONS” - The Exhibition associated with “Łódź Design Festival”; at “Niebostan” Piotrkowska 17 street, Łódź

- 9 Maj 2014 - Students’ of Faculty of Materials Technology and Textile Design of the Lodz University of Technology Exhibition “Retrospekcja/Retrospection”, Willa Józefa Richtera, 10/12 Skorupki Street, Łódź

[michaladamski1987]

Dziękuję za zaproszenie na niezwykłą wystawę - „Christian Dior i ikony paryskiej mody z kolekcji Adama Leja” 😊😊😊 Oryginalne stroje, uzupełniające je akcesoria - kapelusze, buty, jak również biżuteria – to tylko wybrane kreacje spod znaku domu mody Dior, które będzie można zobaczyć na wystawie „Christian Dior i ikony paryskiej mody” od 26 kwietnia do 26 sierpnia 2018 r. w Centralnym Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi, budynek D, III piętro 🙂 fot. Michał Radwański Modelka ubrana jest w strój Christian Dior lata 60, jest to prêt à Couture całość Dior 🙂 Żakiet i suknia wykonane są z jedwabiu z żakardowym motywem kwiatowym. #dior @dior #christiandior #fashionhouse #icons #parisian #fashion #parisfashionicons #parisianfashion #parisfashion #collection #adamleja @lejaadam #lodz #central #museum #textiles #centralmuseumoftextiles #cmwl #piotrkowska282 #photo #michalradwanski @michalradwanski #invitation #exposition #thankyou @pawel_bouvier (w: Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź)

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Impresja 180°: Biała Fabryka #lodz #łódź #poland #polska #art #artistic #artisticphoto #artisticphotography #piotrkowskastreet #piotrkowska #secession #autumn #water #jesień #factory #museum #textile #textilemuseum (w: Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpiIYgYF-DZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rkoomoguzbna

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