JAN PRUSKI Exhibition

3 February 2017 In Jan Pruski journal No Comment

mellowness

A great event is coming! Artistic Loft gallery will host new works by Jan Pruski. What to expect? I have a feeling they are going to be very mature. Mature as in temperature, succulence and colours. I am not referring here to Jan himself, nor am I attempting to define a period in his work. These works are ripe like fruit in the fall that hasn’t been picked too early but was left to ripe in the sunshine. Art ready to be enjoyed in its best moment, matured to perfection like a bottle of excellent wine covered with patina. I perceive these works as replete, exuding fulfilment and luring the viewer to contemplation. A safe harbour for souls in emotional turmoil. These works evoke desire so don’t fight it!

I wish you only pleasant experiences,
Małgorzata Żółtowska, exhibition curator

The exhibition opens on Thursday, 16 February at 6pm. You can visit Artistic Loft, 16 February-18 April 2017.

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After the meeting with Jan, do stay for dinner in Galery 69 restaurant. No table booking required, the dinner is banquet style. The idea is to talk about Art, share the experiences, meet other soul mates (may oh may, and there will be soul mates galore!), drink wine and have some delicious nibbles. Galery 69 restaurant will be serving goodies complementing wine and vodka- you certainly may expect our curried herring, smoked trout tartare and farm cheeses- all served on one platter to be shared.

FREE NIGHT

A room with Jan Pruski’s work. Oh, yes, the hotel is an integral part of our living Art Gallery. I would like to encourage the guests who are coming from far away to see the exhibition and enjoy the opening to contact the reception as we have prepared a special offer for you. If you book the room for the weekend, Friday to Sunday, we shall give you Thursday night free. A room with Jan’s work, of course. Contact us on the phone or email, please.

The skating ring (i.e., the lake) is frozen solid and there will be no shortage of ice till March, which means vast space for skating and walking-the skates are already razor sharp and waiting!

WINE

It is an undisputed fact that wine aids the artists in their creative endeavours and the wievers in contemplating the works of art. Sommelier’s `Corner: Mr Krzyś, our sommelier, shall offer you with alacrity the treasures from our cellar- wines from all corners of the earth, from Spain and Chile, sophisticated or unfussy, fit for any palate and pocket. A toast to the artist!!

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The relation

The exhibition was opened in the presence of a group of respectable art admirers. The atmosphere was warm and friendly, thus, quite uncharacteristically for openings, the guests felt free to discuss their emotions, or the lack of thereof, what they liked or did not understand at all. Once again, for us, the artists, it was a confirmation that art is truly an elite notion not for mass consumption. So we drank in the succulent colours of Jan’s new creations and engaged in discussions on the ephemeral. We brooded on the fact that inspiration has a separate existence and lucky is the person who manages to ‘domesticate’it. Henryk Cześnik claimed that the main picture was inspired by the very piece of copper sheet worked into it and insisted that if Jan Pruski had not decided to build his house with his own hands he would not have got this particular copper sheet, thus the picture would not have been created, ditto for the other ones. Inspiration is definitely a must, but fate should not be neglected- all these meandering paths we walk every day. And as the exhibition is entitled ‘Patina’should the pictures be buried and forgotten for a while so that they can gather more of it? Henryk, my dear, of course we could bury them but do we literarily want to see the patina? Is imagination not enough? And envision someone indignantly remarking that they could get dirty, and what then? And as we indulged in these half serious half playful musings two paintings got sold for a pretty serious sum.

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Jazz and ART… it was worth to be there

15 December 2015 In Jan Pruski journal No Comment

Time for reflection.

5^th December in Artistic Loft – in other words our gallery hall – there took place a vernissage of Jan Pruski’ art and a concert of Grzech Piotrowski who played a duet with Indian tablist, Rahul Pophali.

First of all, Jan Pruski asked many questions showing his works. He gave no answers, because he does not speak about the meaning of his paintings. He avoids the subject, weaselled out, doesn’t give an answer. The only way to learn something is to study the personality of Jan and a contemplation of his works with reference to own experiences and emotions. I lean the fragmentary knowledge of Jan’s life, which one he prefer to pass over or treat as unimportant. We couldn’t be more wrong. Therefore, from scraps of revealed life, time spent together and varieties of his works – I comment on his art and build my relation with Jan’ works.

For me the latest exhibition is a continuation of “windows series” which send to considerations… To work out Jan Pruski is not so simple. You walk, consider, think over… And somewhere, far away from paintings, it flashed through my mind that I know these WINDOWS. The windows of places which we did not dare to come get to. Windows of big museums and galleries, of outstanding artists who succeeded to become known, and windows of friends, who shown them their indifference. Hazy windows, frosted of cold unapproachability. The only place we have is outside, where like the little match girl we are waiting for a warm little flame. Will we ever find ourselves on the other side? They are there – I still stick here. I’m waiting. The sadness, delicate hope and huge shyness lie in wait for us.

This shyness I read from Jan. And anger, too. These are his dominating features –shyness and anger. The anger of man who does not allow for immorality. He has just talked about it. He is always clear in paintings dedicated to prisoners of concentration camps and victims of everyday quiet violence. In each part of his life, Jan talks about current emotional states –there were erotic, landscapes, works simply aesthetic which proved his present life’s harmony, and also these which were dripping with black, conveying chaos and destruction and illustrating disintegration of family and friends’ relationships. Emotions always. His works are full of them and they always bring subjects up deeply.

There is no place to lack expression. And even thought suddenly Jan’ works became white, they don’t become blank. The white emanates as a most vivid colour. A lot of things happen in it. Maybe it’s the end, or maybe a beginning? We don’t know that – yet, because to be continued.
Damn, Jan! You are not alone below these windows. There are lots of us here and we all look through them trying to guess how to get inside. How to be there where THIS is understanding and value? What does decide about the way to these places? This question is very significant and the answer demands own place. So, not this time.

Music has simpler way to cross THESE borders. Through wave, river or creek it filters to our space, reaching us with easiness. Therefore, after inconceivably resonant concert, Grzech opened his suitcase and the CD’s from his value collection spread to people. In it, the latest one – “World Orchestra”, with record of fantastic concert from Gdańsk.

Few words about concert in Galery69. Duet set us on fire with variety of sounds and rhythms. We were not able to take photo of Rahul’ hands by sports shutter. He is a table’s virtuoso – very important percussion instrument in India.
O koncercie w Galery69 słów kilka. Duet nas zadziwił bogactwem dźwięków i rytmów. Dłoni Rahula nie udało się sfotografować sportową migawką. To wirtuoz tabli – bardzo ważnego w Indiach instrumentu perkusyjnego. Grzech’ multi-saxophone resounded so diversely like never before. It happened through a device, which systematically recorded the music only to after a while plays with Grzech in next part of saxophone. A lot of records which overlapped resounded together and made an unbelievable effect – as an orchestra, exactly. “World”, of course.

For this visual-sounds moments and some new thoughts written in mind it was worth to be in Galery69!

Works of Jan Pruski we are honoured to store in our gallery till the end of January 2014. Next, in February, the collection will be exhibited in “Galeria Kuratorium” in Warsaw, on Sienna str. 43A.

Record “World Orchestra”, CD+DVD, available in Empik.
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I truly recommend! M.