From 2 - 31 October, we invite you to Galeria -1 (Czapski Palace) for an exhibition dedicated to the work, teaching and research activities of Professor Włodzimierz Szymański - ‘Włodzimierz Szymański 1960-2023’. Curators: Klaudia Kiercz-Długołęcka, Dorota Kozieradzka.
Prof. Włodzimierz Szymański was an outstanding artist, a long-standing and valued teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, an active Senator of the Academy, the Founder and Director of the Prof. Ryszard Winiarski Institute of Media Art.
He has held many group and solo exhibitions, in Poland and abroad. He has led a number of projects for the benefit of Polish contemporary art, the Academy of Fine Arts, its students and staff. In 2009, he founded the Alternative Imaging Studio at the Faculty of Media Art, which has been extremely popular with students over the past few years.
Committed, dedicated and spirited, he passed away at a time when his vision and endeavours were beginning to gain momentum and shape into viable ventures. To many he will remain an unrivalled Teacher, Mentor and Champion. He died suddenly on 23 May 2023.
‘The aim of the exhibition is to present Prof. Szymanski’s comprehensive activities and to show the areas of his increased artistic, teaching, scientific and research activities. Thus, alongside his own works (paintings, multimedia or intermedia), we will show flagship student projects realised under his supervision.
We will present a selection of projects that the Professor led or initiated as the founder and director of the Professor Ryszard Winiarski Institute of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw,’ say the curators of the exhibition: Klaudia Kiercz-Dlugołęcka and Dorota Kozieradzka.
part of the work
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Włodzimierz Szymański, ‘A Quarter of a Shadow’. - multimedia performance 2008, XXI Gallery Warsaw
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Włodzimierz Szymański, OR Light, 2015, 2 m, dia. 40, glass, acrylic, wood, led light, multiplied module (multimedia performance)
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Wlodzimierz Szymanski
He completed his studies at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – he obtained his diploma in the atelier of Professor Ryszard Winiarski in 1987. Since that year, he has worked at his alma mater. Between 2006 and 2016, he cooperated with the PJWSTK in Warsaw, where he co-created the Interior Design faculty. In 2011, he was awarded the title of full professor. Since 2009, he has taught at the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he founded and led the diploma studio of Alternative Imaging in the area of intermedia.
For teń years (1999-2009), he was a curator at the Ericsson Gallery in Warsaw. He took part in several dozen individual and collective exhibitions at home and abroad. As a result of a competition, he realised a permanent exhibition in Esslingen ‘Painting and objects in architecture’ (about 100 works) between 1996 and 2000. He also took part in numerous non-exhibition activities.
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‘Włodzimierz Szymański 1960-2023’. Exhibition dedicated to the work, teaching and research activities of Prof. Włodzimierz Szymański
