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“Icon — word, way, prayer”

Supraśl Museum of Irons exhibition, Podlasie Branch in Białystok

08. 11. 2010 – Monday
1 pm
Main Textile Museum, ul. Piotrkowska 282

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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Exhibition “Icon — word, way, prayer”

Exhibition ICON — word — way — prayer concerns three essential layers of the iconic presentation. They actually make the presentation, dividing it into consecutive parts in which we point out the essence of the deliberations.

The first part of the exhibition is devoted to the meaning of “a word” in the icon.

A word becomes the content of the icon, which is called a picture-word. What it presents is a notice shown by colours, signs and symbols. In the theological meaning an icon is written, thus it has to be read. Every single piece of it makes its meaning. An icon becomes an artistic explanation of the Gospel, its revelation – the visible gospel. It holds the gift of the coming Word, Existence and God’s Wisdom. It’s the interpretation of the words of The Holy Bible, the story of Jesus Christ and the recollection of the history of church.

The next subject says about the way which is and which is represented by the icon.

The way to God leads through an icon. It becomes a kind of border between heaven and earth which is perceived as a link that divides and joins while leading to the unity of the two worlds. An icon, being an indirect existence between the visible and invisible world, is called “a way up” and “a way down” The way up is raising, entering the divine space, an isolation from temporality.
The way down is a descent, returning of the altered heart to the Earth’s reality. In this pilgrimage an icon is an enlightenment, fellowship, finding, relief, joy, but above all these, the greatest love which is a perfect way to eternity.

The exhibition is completed with the lines dedicated to the prayer in the icon.

A prayer which is written in the icon is a kind of never-ending artistic piety and creative meditation. The thoughts and deliberations included in it become a prayer of its author and worshipper while looking at it.(…) Standing in front of an icon, contemplating its content and looking at its representation, we can feel how concentrated the individual is, the one who does not look at us, but listens to our thoughts. Teodor Studyta mentioned that an icon is a salutary act of the God’s economy. In it we can find a sign of God’s presence for our prayer and a place of encounter.

The display presented here contains more than 100 icons written on panels, as well as representations made in metal. These are the images of Christ, Our Lady, the saints and images of holy days. Both thematic and artistic variety of the presented icons and their dating (17th — 20 th century), let us make familiar with the diversity of creative realizations that can be seen in an icon itself. It is worth paying attention to canonical icons, in order to read the iconic theology by admiring the transcendent beauty of the truth included.

The display consists of the exhibits from The Museum of Icons in Supraśl which is a branch of The Podlaskie Museum in Białystok. Script by Krystyna Stawecka, artistic arrangement by Ewa Zalewska.