One of the most famous portraits of Chopin at the exhibition in Warsaw – Warsaw and Mazovia – the latest news in RDC
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One of the most popular portraits of the composer, by Ara Scheffer, can be viewed until January 30 at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. The painting, on loan from the Dordrecht Museum (Netherlands), the painter’s hometown, is on display at the temporary exhibition ‘Chopin. The Power of a Sign “.
“Over the years, this image, the most common, idealized and uncomplicated in terms of composition, has transformed into an exploratory image of the highest range”- Marta, curator of the exhibition. “There is less to it, looking for the portrait – as more or more processed – in the works presented at the exhibition: Marcin Maciejowski, Anna Piesiewicz, Robert Kuta, Anna Suwałowska, Jerzy Sacha, Piotr Micherewicz and Agata Anna Gaber”- a Pole.
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Andrzej Heidrich also referred to this portrait when he designed the 5000 zloty banknote issued in the 1980s. As Stefan Kisielewski wrote: “Chopin is like that magic object having a different reflection in each mirror“. “In these contemporary mirrors, but also in human needs, expectations and values“- we read on the website of the Museum.
January 8 at 16 visitors of the museum will be guided through the exhibition by Marta Tabakiernik, and on January 22 – by Dr. Seweryn Kuter.
January 15 at 15, in the “Chopin Salon” series, there will be a lecture by the art historian Przemysław Głowacki, presenting the figure and work of Ara Scheffer.
The event comes true as part of #RokRoktyzmuPolskiego.
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Source: PAP | Author: FP
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