{"id":3303,"date":"2020-12-11T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:51:56","slug":"fryderyk-chopin-jan-sawka-virtual-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2020\/12\/11\/fryderyk-chopin-jan-sawka-virtual-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Fryderyk Chopin + Jan Sawka virtual project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ongoing virtual project to connect two artists across time and piano players across the globe.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Both Polish-born \u00e9migr\u00e9s whose work incorporated themes of memory and exile, the extraordinary composer Fryderyk Chopin and the visual artist Jan Sawka are united by their biographies, which have resonances in their similarities, separated by 100 Years. The Dorsky Museum and the SUNY New Paltz Department of Music invite submissions to an online project<\/a> which considers the themes of memory and exile by connecting Chopin\u2019s music and Sawka\u2019s artworks through your own individual experience and the lens of the current reality of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zachary Bowman and Alex Peo Introduce Chopin and Sawka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a time when our world is practicing social distancing, itself a form of displacement, our former way of living seems like a distant, but ever-so-close memory. The exhibition Jan Sawka: The Place of Memory (The Memory of Place) focuses on the artist\u2019s works<\/em> about memory and the places through which a human life passes. These artworks possess a deep empathy and a sense of loss that only exile can bring and express an expansive sense of the beauty that hope, art and nature make available to human beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In conversation: Frank Boyer, Hanna Maria Sawka and Aleksander Laskowski.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fryderyk Chopin, one of the worlds most renowned composers, dedicated himself to the piano. While living in Paris, at the time the center of European culture, he created ties with many Polish \u00e9migr\u00e9s and inspired generations of composers. He found inspiration from the Polish mazurkas and polonaise he heard as a child in Poland, while expanding on themes from this music to create some of the finest and most influential compositions in the history of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ask piano students, teachers and professional players to consider the following question: \u201cWhat does the piece I am playing by Chopin remind me of?\u201d<\/strong> After you answer that, we ask that you find a work or theme in the exhibition which relates to that memory or idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, create a video where you:
1) provide the name of the artwork you are relating to
2) briefly describe the connection between memory, song, and artwork
3) play the song<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can send your video to Zachary Bowman at bowmanz@newpaltz.edu<\/a><\/strong> if you’d like your video to be considered for the website. We will feature selected videos on our web site and some on our social media accounts. Everybody is welcome to put up videos on your personal social media accounts and add the hashtag #chopinsawka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pianist \u0141ukasz Krupi\u0144ski discusses artist Jan Sawka and composer Fryderyk Chopin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To explore more about the themes of exile and memory present in the work of Chopin and Sawka, watch a recorded conversation between curators Frank Boyer and Hanna Maria Sawka,<\/a> and<\/a> Aleksander Laskowski<\/a> of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n