{"id":16777,"date":"2025-04-02T16:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?p=16777"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:10:55","slug":"photography-exhibition-song-of-a-lonely-traveller-by-maciej-plewinski-in-gent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2025\/04\/02\/photography-exhibition-song-of-a-lonely-traveller-by-maciej-plewinski-in-gent\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography exhibition: \u201cSong of a Lonely Traveller\u201d by Maciej Plewi\u0144ski in Villa de Bondt in Gent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The greatest formal achievement of <a href=\"https:\/\/plewinski.com\/maciej\/\">Maciej Plewi\u0144ski\u2019s<\/a> iconoclastic artistic activity is his total disregard for the niceties of form. And since form as such has of late been discarded or at best remains the ruinous phan- tom of derivative artists, so much the better. What than do Plewinski\u2019s frozen images impart? What do they say? What is in them?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16781\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16781\" class=\"wp-image-16781 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/06_Siena_II-1024x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/06_Siena_II-1024x514.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/06_Siena_II-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/06_Siena_II-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/06_Siena_II-1536x771.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/06_Siena_II-2048x1027.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maciej Plewi\u0144ski &#8211; 'Siena II&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>\u00a0<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cWandering through the world, I try in various ways to capture its visible manifestations through photography\u2014supposedly objective and believed to bear witness to its existence. I prefer to do this on film, to have a tangible proof of the event, place, and moment. I trust matter more than information\u2026\u201d \u2013<\/em> Maciej Plewi\u0144ski<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_16789\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16789\" class=\"wp-image-16789 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/04_Roma-2000_01-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/04_Roma-2000_01-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/04_Roma-2000_01-1019x1024.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/04_Roma-2000_01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/04_Roma-2000_01-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/04_Roma-2000_01.jpg 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maciej Plewi\u0144ski &#8211; 'Roma&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maciej Plewi\u0144ski<\/strong> was born in 1955 in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. He began assisting his father, the renewed photographer Wojciech Plewi\u0144ski, with assignments and darkroom work at the age of 10. He later studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krak\u00f3w. In the 1980s, he worked as an assistant to Prof. Andrzej Pietsch in the Intaglio Workshop of the Academy\u2019s Graphic Faculty, where he specialized in photogravure techniques and teaching. From 1985 to 1986, Plewi\u0144ski moved to New York, where he assisted the celebrated photographer, Ryszard Horowitz. After returning to Poland in 1987, he embarked on a successful career as an independent photographer and printmaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Photography exhibition: \u201cSong of a Lonely Traveller\u201d by Maciej Plewi\u0144ski<br \/>10 April \u2013 10 May, 2025<br \/><\/strong>Visits from Friday to Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00 or by appointment: <a href=\"mailto:info@villadebondt.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info@villadebondt.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Opening<br \/><\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">10 April, 2025<br \/><\/strong>18:00-21:00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/villadebondt.be\/\">Villa De Bondt<\/a> <br \/><\/strong><strong>Art Gallery<br \/><\/strong>Krijgslaan 124<br \/>9000 Gent<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16788\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16788\" class=\"wp-image-16788 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/05_08_Don-Giovanni-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/05_08_Don-Giovanni-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/05_08_Don-Giovanni-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/05_08_Don-Giovanni-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/05_08_Don-Giovanni-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/05_08_Don-Giovanni-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maciej Plewi\u0144ski &#8211; 'Don Giovanni&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest formal achievement of Maciej Plewi\u0144ski\u2019s iconoclastic artistic activity is his total disregard for the niceties of form. 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And since form as such has of late been discarded or at best remains the ruinous phan- tom of derivative artists, so much the better. What than do Plewinski\u2019s frozen images impart? What do they say? What is in them?\n[caption id=\"attachment_16781\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"] Maciej Plewi\u0144ski - 'Siena II'[\/caption]\n\u00a0\n\u201cWandering through the world, I try in various ways to capture its visible manifestations through photography\u2014supposedly objective and believed to bear witness to its existence. I prefer to do this on film, to have a tangible proof of the event, place, and moment. I trust matter more than information\u2026\u201d \u2013 Maciej Plewi\u0144ski\n\u00a0\n[caption id=\"attachment_16789\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"298\"] Maciej Plewi\u0144ski - 'Roma'[\/caption]\n\u00a0\nMaciej Plewi\u0144ski was born in 1955 in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. 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After returning to Poland in 1987, he embarked on a successful career as an independent photographer and printmaker.\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\nPhotography exhibition: \u201cSong of a Lonely Traveller\u201d by Maciej Plewi\u0144ski10 April \u2013 10 May, 2025Visits from Friday to Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00 or by appointment: info@villadebondt.be\nOpening10 April, 202518:00-21:00\nVilla De Bondt Art GalleryKrijgslaan 1249000 Gent\n[caption id=\"attachment_16788\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"] Maciej Plewi\u0144ski - 'Don Giovanni'[\/caption]"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2025\/04\/02\/photography-exhibition-song-of-a-lonely-traveller-by-maciej-plewinski-in-gent\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/Firenze.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/Firenze.jpg","width":1312,"height":821},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2025\/04\/02\/photography-exhibition-song-of-a-lonely-traveller-by-maciej-plewinski-in-gent\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Photography exhibition: \u201cSong of a Lonely Traveller\u201d by Maciej Plewi\u0144ski in Villa de Bondt in Gent"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Brukseli","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#\/schema\/person\/189bcd8821552f49e45a6efb38dfefd2","name":"lemanczykp","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c1e8f012eccfa768a7328187848d023b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c1e8f012eccfa768a7328187848d023b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"lemanczykp"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/author\/lemanczykp\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16777"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17216,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16777\/revisions\/17216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}