Tadeusz Rolke exhibition in Ludwik Zamenhof Center is his first individual show in Białystok and probably will make viewers feel life's incessant curiosity - utrwalanym hot, true, and sometimes with a certain distance and a sense of transience, present in his work.
Opening: 10.04.2015 (Friday), at 6 pm - 8 pm,
Curator: Marek Grygiel,
exhibition open until 06.07.2015,
Places. Reconstruction
The exhibition presents a selection of images from the extensive, accounting for more than 50 years of Tadeusz Rolke. This is the first individual exhibition of outstanding Polish photographer in Bialystok. Is composed of several threads that are constantly intertwined in his work. The first is the man and his surroundings - images of people and places, including Warsaw street portraits from the 50s, Moscow at the beginning of the 60s and a decade later the Parisian mood. So are photos of famous people associated with culture and art, where the artist met while traveling through Poland and the world. Equally often heroes Tadeusz Rolke images are anonymous people. These meetings are not only the nature of the documentary, stopped at the helm of the person and the situation leads to a deeper reflection - going beyond time and place, the subject of the photo.
Another part of the exhibition are the photos from the "We were here", started in 2003. It consists of images that Tadeusz Rolke made on the former grounds of the Second Republic, as well as Central and Eastern Europe, which were associated with the presence of the Hasidim, and that ultimately destroyed the Second World War.
The exhibition "Places. Reconstruction" is designed to introduce dozens of the most important and characteristic of photography - fragments of Tadeusz Rolke unusual. The modern touch is the projection formed in 2013 documentary "travel diary" dir. Piotr Stasik. This is a story of friendship Tadeusz Rolke, more than 80-year-old master photojournalist and a 15-year-old Michał was fascinated by photography. The axis of the narrative is a photographic project - the title of trip we set off characters.
Tadeusz Rolke exhibition in Ludwik Zamenhof Center is his first individual show in Białystok and probably will make viewers feel life's incessant curiosity - utrwalanym hot, true, and sometimes with a certain distance and a sense of transience, present in his work.
Tadeusz Rolke
b. 1929 in Warsaw, shooting begins in the 40s of the last century, and in the 50s his interest in moving towards photojournalism. The next decade working for innovative writings edited graphically: "Polska", "Ty i Ja" and intensively documented artistic and intellectual environment centered around Warsaw Foksal Gallery. Stay in Germany in the years 70s, there continues his photographic passions, but as a freelance photographer, publish your photos such as the renowned weekly "Stern" and "Der Spiegel". The avant-garde scene photographs theater festivals, among others, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. At the same time performs original series, such as now the famous photo essay from the Hamburg markets "Fishmarkt." He is interested in fashion, which was photographed in a precursor in the 60s in Poland and later in the West. He participates in fashion shows in Paris, where he created a series of photos from the series pret-a-porter unknown scenes showing contemporary fashion designers work. After returning to Poland in the 80s creates a series of individual images including a series of acts "Beatrice". He is the founder and curator of the exhibition "Violence, Sex, Nostalgia". Constantly corresponds to German writing about art "Art". In the 90s works with weeklies "Wprost" and "Magazynem Gazety Wyborczej". For many years a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, juror many photo contests, a lecturer at the Warsaw School of Photography and at the Department of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. In 2009 held his largest exhibition "Everything is a photograph" in the Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw. In 2009, the medal is awarded the Gloria Artis. Photographs Tadeusz Rolke shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, and published in a dedicated artist albums. In recent years appeared: "Tadeusz Rolke. Photographs 1944-2005 " (2006),"Woman is ..." (2008) and "We were here. The last traces of the lost culture" (2008).