14/05/2022
film
Icon for the Road
as part of Night of Museums
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We invite you to a special screening of the documentary Icon for the Road (directed by Róża Fabjanowska and Sławomir Malcharek) about the artist Leon Tarasewicz. The screening will take place as part of the Night of Museums at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.
- Leon Tarasewicz is an artist who is already a classic and one of the masters of contemporary art. He is Belarusian, lives in Waliły (Poland) and has Polish citizenship. However, he does not have his own country, because for him “the Republic of Belarus is not an autonomous state, but Russia’s puppet.” Leon Tarasewicz is one of those who have been rebuilding the Belarusian culture; he himself has gone a long way to “rebuild Belarusianness: history and literature” and “this world between Poland and Russia,” to which he belongs.
- For Leon Tarasewicz, art is “a sense of the impossible.” “The only problem is,” as he stresses, “that with every work the artist crosses the borders of which he himself does not know yet. And you have to trust firmly that there are doors to be opened ahead of you, roads that neither you nor others have yet walked.”
- Leon Tarasewicz is a member of the Villa Sokrates Foundation, one of the animators of the Krynki gallery and Trialog, a cultural and artistic event initiated by Sokrat Janowicz. He is also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
- At the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art his works were presented at the exhibition David Nash, Leon Tarasewicz in 1991, Nowosielski, Smoczyński, Tarasewicz in 1997 and at an individual exhibition in 2003.
- Icon for the Road is a documentary journey with Leon Tarasewicz through his biography, inspirations, creative path and places. Next to the artist appear his relatives, friends, artists and the Belarusian poet Sokrat Janowicz.
