Warsaw. Opening of Lengrenówka. Weekend of attractions in the former studio of the creator of “Adventures of Professor Filutek”
Lengrenówka is already open. Educational and artistic space of the Museum of Caricature in the first one. It was created in the apartment where Zbigniew Lengren, a cartoonist and author of children’s literature, lived and worked. Several attractions for children and adults are planned for the weekend.
Lengrenówka is located at Brzozowa 6 / 8a in the Old Town. The two-story “house” was conceived as a place for meetings, education and small artistic events, as well as workshops focused on drawing, comics, architecture, theater and literature for children and teenagers. At the short-term point.
Former apartment of Zbigniew Lengren
– After almost five years, Lengrenówka again gradually and its substantive activity loudly. It is true that we have been organizing meetings since February 2010, such as workshops for adults or adults or for fans that Lengren is already opening comics for such children or that Lengren is already an official activity of the Museum – said Paweł Płoski.
The new educational and artistic space is located in the former apartment of Zbigniew Lengren, who was a cartoonist, illustrator, author of satirical texts, as well as a set designer and author of children’s literature. He collaborated with radio, theaters, cabarets and Polish Television. He was very popular with the series “Adventures of Profesora Filutek” and his dog Filuś, which originally appeared in “Przekrój”. He also illustrated books on the adventures of Dr. Dolittle.
The collection includes the Museum of over 130 and posters by Lengre. In the form of a deposit, the facility also acquired a large part of the collection from the artist’s family and heirs. there was one presentation during the presentation and its promotion
Attractions during the opening weekend of Lengrenówka
The official opening of Lengrenówka on Friday was graced by the Open Air Lengren Review prepared by the Warsaw Comedy Club and the concert of The Real Gone Tones – a Warsaw band playing rockabilly, rhythm’n’blues, swing and country, whose singer and leader is Maria Lengren – the granddaughter of the famous cartoonist.
The following days of the week, celebrations under the slogan “Lengrenówka”.
On Saturday, there will be KARYKATOUR, a walk around Warsaw’s Old Town, with a map – a game drawn by Marcin Surma. The walk will be led by the director of the Museum of Caricature, Paweł Płoski. – During this task it will be valuable that the Museum of Caricature has two departments, one affects one on Kozia Street, and the other on Brzoz Street – this street.
Odem as being also a joke workshop with Michał Rzecznik, an author really uninhabited, who is also a writer, and a literary workshop with Uzdański poems, writer and author of the novel “Wypiór”.
On Sunday, an open drawing will be hosted by Weronika Reroń, designer and graphic designer, as well as a comic meeting with Jacek Świdziński, a cartoonist for the day shown with “Przekrój” – the author of comic books (scripts and comics). The day will end with “Filutki. Storytelling workshops for children” together with Stowarzyszenie Studnia O.
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– These are the events that during the opening weekend are a “pill” that is to show what Lengrenówka is. We now want it to be a space for meetings and education, and even for small artistic events or exhibitions. In our idea, Lengrenówka can also be a workshop, this is its official name, i.e. Lengrenówka – Caricature Museum Workshop. We are planning that from the season, after the holidays, a new way of coworking development in Lengrenów, where cartoonists, comic bookers, to enable problem-solving, to solve problems – informed Paweł P.
The celebration doesn’t end at the weekend
However, the celebration of the opening of Lengrenówka does not end this weekend. As the director of the Museum of Caricature noted, “because of the patron of the place and the man who searches for this place, at the end of June we are organizing an exhibition” Zbigniew Lengren. Humorist'”.
– It will be an intimate exhibition, which is to interest people walking around the Old Town or passing the panorama from the terrace on Skarpa. We want to achieve successes quickly, like Len Grena, and only hers, also, and not or not, also, not to do, for example for the series of novels about Dr. Dolittle, to supplement the drama, jokes, jokes and photo drawings. The exhibition will be a tribute to Lengren, as well as a signal that we remember him and want this memory to last – Płoski’s advertisement.
The exhibition will be open to visitors from June 25 to October 2. The museum is also worthy of the educational program: OUTDOOR – a series of air workshops, and further KARYKATOUR walks.
– We are at an action meeting. Create plans that we will need, neighborly surroundings. also to make the creators feel that they are in their place, that they can meet here, promotion of the latest comic book album, discussion or workshops – said Płoski.
Lengrenówka is to be an “environmental address”
The artists in Lengrenówka will host a convention of the Polish Caricature Association. – Therefore, we would like Lengrenówka to become an environmental field, so that the place not only lives, but that we organize, but also to establish contacts with the environment and open to it – he emphasized.
Lengrenówka’s partner is the Przekrój Foundation, which provided the Museum with, among others, animations with Professor Filutek, as well as archival materials related to Zbigniew Lengren. The patron is “Komiksowe Notebook”.
The Caricature Museum commemorates valued cartoonists
Director Płoski recalled that this year, the Museum of Caricature commemorated Szymon Kobyliński with an open-air exhibition. – This exhibition stood both in the green area next to the Caricature Museum, and it was possible to show it at Plac Defilad during the Book Fair – he said.
– At the end of the year, we will try again on the question of how to deal with the legacy of an important cartoonist and artist. We are preparing an exhibition devoted to Koziołek Matołek on the 90th anniversary of the publication of the first book about his adventures, informed Paweł Płoski. The exhibition is intended for children. – We plan to make the exhibition a place of salvation – a space in which, above all, children have an opinion, and the Billy Goat accompanies them during their visit to the museum – the position of the director of the museum.
The figure of Koziołek Matołek is a joint work of Kornel Makuszyński (text) and Marian Walentynowicz (color illustrations).
During the year, when the Caricature Museum is celebrating its 45th anniversary, a large exhibition will be organized devoted to the organization’s patron, Eryk Lipiński. – We’re trying to show you. Now show me not only as a cartoonist, but also as a man who – in short – announced People’s Poland. Models, models, examples, examples, illustrations, animated films, puzzles and layouts, as well as advertising – Paweł Płoski Set. As he noted, “this can be an intriguing exhibition, he underlines how a draftsman, satirist and designer is able to influence Polish everyday life.
– We check similar solutions. All you want to make jokes is, explaining why something is supposed to make you laugh. These great and important artists do not need it, summed up Paweł Płoski.
We also informed about the exhibition of works by the legendary cartoonist Grzegorz Rosiński, creator of Thorgal:
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