29 May 2003

You can still visit the jubilee exhibition of works by Józef Szajna at the National Museum until June 8. The project is another in the series of shows organized in Warsaw and Cracow, marking the 80th birthday of the great artist and the 55th anniversary of his artistic work.

Józef Szajna is among the most remarkable Polish artists of the 20th century. Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, painter, draftsman, sculptor, stage designer, and a real Renaissance man, he has proven over the 55 years of his artistic life that one can create independent art, based on one's own profound experience, contemplating and provoking contemplation on the human condition. His devoted work was rewarded by this year's series of events held in the largest cities of Poland.

The National Museum offers a wide range of events within the series Szajnatown. The series covers films on the artist's life and work, installations, stage design projects, pictures, photographs from plays, reviews, the newest version of Deballage and an outdoor Sculpture Gallery opened specially for the occasion, which presents Szajna's work Ladder to Heaven. The exhibition curator, Łukasz Szajna, points out that the exhibition at the National Museum was designed primarily to expose that part of Szajna's work related to theater. Three-dimensional installations and fragments of stage design projects have been arranged by the artist himself in a new manner and in new contexts. The show is supplemented by a catalogue and two monumental biographies of the artist: Józef Szajna and His World and Józef Szajna. Kunst und Theater.

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