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Malevich and the birth of Minimalism, 1975

September 18, 2014 By Adam Zulawski Leave a Comment

The 'Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian Art' exhibition at the Tate Modern, 2014

I visited the impressive Malevich retrospective at the Tate Modern recently, and thought I’d see if Marek had a few words on the man. I found this dense extract which talks about Malevich’s role in the minimalism of modern art. The gallery visit he describes near the end left me with the distinct impression he’d be shaking his head at a lot of today’s art were he still alive… - AZ

There is no doubt that, independent from art as a deliberate activity of man, there exist artistic phenomena which move us with their monumental simplicity. The desert, oceans, ploughed fields, steppes, the heavens and earth.… Keep reading

Filed Under: Art reviews, London, Memoir Tagged With: 1975, De Stijl, Malevich, Mondrian, Robert Self Gallery, Tate

Richard Hamilton at the Tate, 1983

August 14, 2014 By Adam Zulawski Leave a Comment

Epiphany, by Richard Hamilton, 1964 - photo taken at the Tate Modern, 2014

Earlier in 2014, the Tate Modern in London put on a fantastic retrospective exhibition of Richard Hamilton’s work (I snapped this post's main image, "Epiphany" 1964, while I was there). I was unfamiliar with his art but left the gallery hugely impressed, particularly by Hamilton’s sense of humour. To my surprise, I came across a review by my dad of Hamilton’s Tate exhibition in 1983 (now the Tate Britain) in his autobiography.  I can’t seem to find any reference to the dog show he mentions unfortunately – I’d love to see footage of that. – AZ

The Hamilton exhibition at the Tate.… Keep reading

Filed Under: Art reviews, London, Memoir Tagged With: 1983, Richard Hamilton, Tate

Art vs entertainment at the BBC, 1965

August 7, 2014 By Adam Zulawski Leave a Comment

The Polish section of BBC Radio, photographed sometime during the 1940s or 1950s

Marek worked at the Polish section of BBC Radio for decades as an art critic.  That occupation, along with the books he wrote on the subject and actually being an artist himself, meant he was, unsurprisingly, quite opinionated about it all.

I don't know if The Times ever published the letter he quotes. I hope so, as then there'd be a written record of my dad's use of English, rather than just my translation. Throughout his memoirs, he quotes several letters he wrote to The Times and The Observer. He was a bit of a busybody by the looks of things.

… Keep reading

Filed Under: Art reviews, London, Memoir Tagged With: 1965, BBC

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Adam Zulawski

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I run the English section at Culture.pl, and am co-founder of the podcast Stories From The Eastern West. I'm also a freelance writer and Polish-to-English translator. In my spare time, I also run TranslatingMarek.com. Download my free e-book about Poland's capital after it was almost completely destroyed by the Nazis: 'In the Shadow of the Mechanised Apocalypse: Warsaw 1946'

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