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Zdzisław Sowiński (Częstochowa)

“Wojciech Kilar — prezent presence. Composer’s Jasnagóra ways”

09. 11. 2010 – Tuesday
1 pm
Łódź Culture Centre, ul. Traugutta 18, Old Gallery

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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Zdzisław Sowiński

Photographer, film producer

He has been fascinated by photography since he was seven. In 1969 he was accepted to the Film School in Łódź. After the first year of studies, professor Kazimierz Konrad asks him to be a camera man for Jerzy Passendorfer’s film “Akcja Brutus”. Sowiński also made a series of photos for this film, which gain him much approval in the film circles. In the second year of his studies, Sowiński has a chance to learn how to organize a film set and the work of the film crew for many weeks, while observing Andrzej Wajda as he makes his “Promissed Land”.

Next to his friends from PWSFTviT, Zdzisław Sowiński takes active part in the works of the avant-garde film group Warsztat, who represented Poland at the 12th Arts Biennale in Sao Paolo.

He is the author of the first film photos that were processed using a computer, for the film “Seksmisja” directed by Juliusz Machulski. As a camera man, he also works on production of “Przyjaciel Wesołego Diabla” directed by Jerzy Łukaszewicz and “Wiosenny spacer” by Ryszard Rydzewski.

In 1979 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture. During the martial law, influenced by fr. Jan Golonka, he is a co-organiser of an open air artists’ meeting in Częstochowa, Jasna Góra. Since that time, his spiritual connections with this place are deeper. A fruit of this is an album devoted to the sanctuary and marvelous photographic documentation that depicts the phenomenon of pilgrimage. The last fire in Jasna Góra (1990) unfortunately destroys part of this huge undertaking. The time of martial law is also the beginning of a valuable co-operation between him and Wojciech Kilar.

Artistic activity of Zdzisław Sowiński was noticed and appreciated by the Fund of John Paul II and in 1989 he receives a papal scholarship. During his visit to Rome, the artist had a personal conversation with the pope who shows real interest in Sowiński’s works. In 1998 he makes a documentary that describes catholic missions. In five weeks, he travels across the whole of Brazil, the dangerous jungles and the currents of the Amazon River, the poor quarters of the big cities. The result of this journey is over a thousand pictures and an impressive exhibition that travelled through the whole of Poland.

For twelve years Sowiński has been working in the Office of Częstochowa Katowice TV. Knowing what Jasna Góra means for the Poles both in the country and abroad, he makes films that touch on various aspects of life, art and beauty of this particular place. In over twenty years, he makes about thirty films that are either educational or documentaries. Since 1978 he has been a member of the Polish Photographers’ Association. Honoured with the title of the Artist of the 20th century.

Fascinated by the personality and sensitivity of Wojciech Kilar, he undertakes an attempt of trying to show this composer to the Word in a place that is close to both of them — Jasna Góra.

Andrzej Kalinin
(from the exhibition’s catalogue)

(…) This time [Zdzisław Sowiński] has a more difficult task. The whole exhibition is devoted to just one man, Wojciech Kilar. They have been friends for years, Sowiński is fascinated with his music and respect of the artist for the Sanctuary of the Holy Mother and thus he attempted at registering and describing it using his camera.

As a result of that we are presented with a beautiful story about a Great Man and his so ordinary and noble human piousness. Pictures from this exhibition, even though they are just a moment frozen in a snap, make an image that says more about Kilar than any words or a static painting ever could. They are true. In each shot they freeze the time, gesture, face, prayer, not ordinary everyday life of Jasna Góra.

(…)