Lettra - Krakow 2009
Venue:
Jagiellonian Library in Krakow
al. A. Mickiewicza, enter ul. Oleandry 3
Krakow
Date:
21.09 - 10.10.2009
An exhibition to read
A bit paradox idea, a bit misleading. A couple dozen works, each one different. Digital printouts and spatial objects, synthesis and expression, rebellious colour or a noble whiteness and blackness. The ideas run aside as wild, mutinous vectors, although they are definitely connected by something. Or someone.
Who did not get to know the Cracow graphic artist Teresa B. Frodyma, will never understand what "Lettra" is. It is a method and a madness, it is a passionate flicker in the eye, the Benedictine patience, fervency and empathy, and at the same time the virtuosic, diabolic know-how.
This explains the presence of such real poems at the exhibition, as: the "A2" by Chris Macfarlane, full of watery nightmares, the "Namida 07 11" by Tuka Hasegawa, full of water drops, or the splendid, lacy "Mandala X" by Triin Lille. There is the simple "Koperta" by Dariusz Mlącki with the repeated (to the borders of madness or boredom) statement "the possibility of the non-existing objects' existence). Or the sensual "Blizny 3" by Monika Wanyura-Kurosad, thick, spacious and mysterious alike the abysses.
And the books. Books-caprices, books-chimeras, books-mutants. The phenomena difficult to read in a traditional way. Only one of them can be picked up with a hand!
Not all graphics at the "Lettra" exhibition astonish. Not all of them convince at the visual level, not all of them stand the comparison with the best ones. It is good if Teresa appears in the Gallery at the time... The genuine spiritus movens, the inspiring ghost. The jumbled, sometimes incomprehensible "text" of the exhibition is immediately brought back to form a clear, logical wholeness.
Justyna Nowicka
Opening 6 p.m.
A bit paradox idea, a bit misleading. A couple dozen works, each one different. Digital printouts and spatial objects, synthesis and expression, rebellious colour or a noble whiteness and blackness. The ideas run aside as wild, mutinous vectors, although they are definitely connected by something. Or someone.
Who did not get to know the Cracow graphic artist Teresa B. Frodyma, will never understand what "Lettra" is. It is a method and a madness, it is a passionate flicker in the eye, the Benedictine patience, fervency and empathy, and at the same time the virtuosic, diabolic know-how.
This explains the presence of such real poems at the exhibition, as: the "A2" by Chris Macfarlane, full of watery nightmares, the "Namida 07 11" by Tuka Hasegawa, full of water drops, or the splendid, lacy "Mandala X" by Triin Lille. There is the simple "Koperta" by Dariusz Mlącki with the repeated (to the borders of madness or boredom) statement "the possibility of the non-existing objects' existence). Or the sensual "Blizny 3" by Monika Wanyura-Kurosad, thick, spacious and mysterious alike the abysses.
And the books. Books-caprices, books-chimeras, books-mutants. The phenomena difficult to read in a traditional way. Only one of them can be picked up with a hand!
Not all graphics at the "Lettra" exhibition astonish. Not all of them convince at the visual level, not all of them stand the comparison with the best ones. It is good if Teresa appears in the Gallery at the time... The genuine spiritus movens, the inspiring ghost. The jumbled, sometimes incomprehensible "text" of the exhibition is immediately brought back to form a clear, logical wholeness.
Justyna Nowicka
Opening 6 p.m.
