{"id":2016,"date":"2023-07-17T12:44:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kinoteatrbluboks.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=2016"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:50:19","slug":"tristia-around-exodus-4","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.kinoteatrbluboks.com\/index.php\/en\/portfolio\/tristia-around-exodus-4\/","title":{"rendered":"TRISTIA \/ AROUND EXODUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In AD 8, Ovid – a Roman poet was banished to Tomis, on the Black Sea, by the exclusive intervention of the Emperor Augustus. This event shaped all his following poetry. Ovid wrote that the reason for his exile was carmen et error \u2013 „a poem and a mistake”, claiming that his crime was more harmful than poetry.
\nIn exile, Ovid wrote – Tristia, which illustrated his sadness and desolation.The Tristia („Sorrows” or „Lamentations”) is a collection of letters written in elegiac couplets.\n<\/p>\n

In 2022\/23 Sami and Siergiej – two exile artists talk about their experience of leaving their home towns – Damascus and Kyiv. Following the example of Tristia elegies, they remember their last night at home, the object they left behind, friends and family. They also talk about their new artistic ventures.\n<\/p>\n

Tristia \/ Around Exodus
\nKatarzyna Wi\u0144ska (May\/June 2022)
\nThree elegies based on recordings with Sergei Verenich,
\nan architecture painter, an exile from Kyiv (following the Russian attack on Ukraine)
\nin May 2022 in Warsaw, at the cafe at the Academy of Fine Arts\n<\/p>\n

Elegy 1<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe Last Night in Kyiv\u201d
\nThe thing is, there was no time to wonder what to take;
\nI was rounded up by friends \u2013 already packed for the road;
\nMy wife, daughter and I had an hour, maybe two to get ready
\nwe got our passports and I asked my wife if I shouldn\u2019t
\ntake the papers showing my Verenich-Stachowski noble lineage
\n(you can look it up on Wikipedia.) I thought I\u2019d show them.
\nAt the embassy, the legation, but I can\u2019t speak Polish:
\nmaybe better to play the artist card?
\nTo navigate our new situation, our new country…
\nIn the beginning, a blank canvas, to tell it more precisely
\nto tell it from the beginning of the war? … I\u2019d rather not talk about it…<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a story with my elder brother, always there behind me
\nthen he went to the Military Academy in the town of Pushkin, near Leningrad.
\nHe visited on holidays, brought us Stones records
\ntold us all about the gigs he saw
\nWent in depth about Polish musicians: about Skaldy about Niemen \u2013
\nthey were a big deal to me. But soon he grew out of it.
\nIn the summer, after the fourth year, he came back to Donbas
\nwe were sitting in front of the TV, watching sports.
\nMy brother didn\u2019t say much. My father could tell we were growing apart.
\nHe asked: Listen Vitya, as a future elite officer, what do you think
\nAbout the sorry state of the government? They\u2019ll get us nowhere;
\nthey call themselves heroes, they award themselves bonuses…
\nI, the younger brother, expected a firm response
\nbut I got the classic Soviet buffoonery; to Father, always our compass,
\nfor how to live, be objective, know history,
\nto that same father he said: Don\u2019t ask useless questions
\nthey\u2019re doing what they have to, it\u2019s none of our business…
\nAs I recall it now, that foreshadowed
\nthe disaster that would fall between us.\n<\/p>\n

Elegy 2<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAn Object Left in a House in Kyiv\u201d
\nMy paintings stayed at home, in Kyiv, twelve km from Bucha
\nSome Poles, here in Warsaw, asked for one from a gallery online
\nBut because of the war I couldn\u2019t deliver it to them
\nI\u2019m repainting it, the same subject, with new energy
\nI haven\u2019t got a studio here \u2013 I\u2019m painting in an attic
\non easels borrowed from a friend’s child.
\nThe picture is mostly yellow and blue, like the original
\nI hate to repeat myself; I look for new inspiration
\nI listen to the clients, like when I work as an architect;
\nI saw pictures in their home; their taste isn\u2019t bad
\nBut now they want a historical feel to it;
\nThey chose a castle in Olesko where Polish magnates once lived
\nOne became a king; their choice was aesthetic and moral,
\nseven years ago I called the picture \u201cbetween heaven and earth\u201d;
\nspace is the protagonist \u2013 the castle is just a pretext;
\nit\u2019ll be a castle, as they want it, but my intention stays;
\nwhat I paint is composed on rock ballads
\nI search for music in the structures of castles and churches
\nI seal it in the proportions, textures and colors,
\nI break the mold and embrace the abstract
\nit begins with eyeing the object.
\nIn my pictures impressions of buildings from centuries past;
\ntraces of old harmonies give me mystical signs.
\nMy pictures have no people; I don\u2019t mean to create tributes,
\nwhen I paint I am one-on-one with the space
\nBut the castle in Olesko still speaks to me;
\nIts \u201cOgoncik\u201d emblem \u2013 part of two pictures there
\n \u2013 was also my family crest.\n<\/p>\n

Elegy 3<\/p>\n

\u201cEpitaph\u201d<\/p>\n

\nI thought I was wasting time at the architecture department
\ntaking worthless courses in building supervision
\nBut a friend helped me see the light; you met a mentor in those classes!
\nAnd though you could have been drawing more, exploring art history
\na professor appeared \u2013 Yuri Himich; a star to guide your way
\n\u2013 life brought me a teacher \u2013 a Ukrainian genius.
\nHe didn\u2019t take me by the hand: you know what\u2019s right, paint as you wish, he said
\nAfter Dad\u2019s funeral I returned to Kyiv to see him
\nHe was Dad\u2019s peer, so I took the leap:
\nYuri Ivanovich, take my father\u2019s place, please
\nHe agreed: I\u2019m with you \u2013
\nit was our spiritual understanding<\/p>\n

I dedicated this picture to Vysotsky. It\u2019s called \u201cIn the Circle of Light\u201d \u2013
\na chunk of the cosmos \u2013 you can turn it whatever way you like
\nThey rejected it for the Republican exhibition \u2013 a member of the jury said:
\nwe don\u2019t need a modernist here \u2013 he made it sound like fascist or onanist
\nonly in Kyiv can one be told this<\/p>\n

I\u2019m over sixty \u2013 here in Poland I\u2019m trying to find my feet.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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