Artur Nacht-Samborski, “The memory of motif”

30.12.2009 14:15

“Wozownia” Art Gallery is holding an exhibition of Artur Nacht-Samborski’s works from the deposits of the National Museum in Poznan. This is a representative collection of works created from the twenties to the seventies of the twentieth century.

It covers all the motifs present in the work of the artist: still lifes, female acts in intimate interiors and landscapes. The artist treated those motifs as a kind of media. He presented them in ever new contexts, spatial and color combinations. Nacht compositions are characterized by the harmony of the whole. They show the painter’s artistic sensitivity to the nuances of color, which he skilfully combined with the ability of extracting expressive tones from them. Two traditions: Polish Colorism and German Expressionism contributed to the Nacht’s art. They have shaped his personal path to achieve his own unique style. The exhibition will be complemented by a lecture “Faces of Nacht-Samborski” delivered on January 28 (Thursday) by Łukasz Kiepuszewski.

Artur Nacht-Samborski was born in 1898 in Cracow, in a Jewish merchant family. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts — including the studios of Joseph Mehoffer and Wojciech Weiss, then spent several years in Berlin and Vienna, where he encountered German expressionism. In 1924 he left for Paris, where he lived and worked until 1939. He returned to Krakow, from where his family moved to Lviv. Friends rescued him from the local ghetto, after the escape he was hiding in Warsaw under an assumed name of Stephen Samborski (hence his subsequent name Stephen Artur Nacht-Samborski). After the war he was a professor of Sopot State School of Fine Arts (today’s Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk) and then for twenty years a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (with an interval of 1950-52, when he was removed from work). He died in Warsaw in 1974.

The exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Artur Nacht-Samborski Foundation for Contemporary Art ARTek and National Museum in Poznan. Presented works come from the deposits of the artist’s family in the National Museum and private collections.

• Opening: January 8, 2010 (Friday), at 6 p.m.
• Exhibition: January 9-29, 2010

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The idea behind our “tradition of the revolution”

22.12.2009 19:57

It was one of the most anticipated meetings of the end of 2009. As declared, the director of the Toruń 2016 institute on December, 18 presented the outlines of Toruń’s strategy in the efforts for the title of the European Capital of Culture. He also presented the slogan worked out by a panel of experts.

Our bid for the title will be lead under the “The tradition of the Revolution” motto.

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Programme Director 2

17.12.2009 15:37

The Municipal Institute of Culture TORUŃ 2016 announce for the second time recruitment process for the Programme Director. The deadline for application is January 6th, 2010. The criteria of new recruitment process are a bit different and the job offer hopefully reach wider number of potential candidates.

At the first attempt, there was no suitable candidate identified due to incomplete application. The new director of TORUŃ 2016, Krystian Kubjaczyk, has decided to change some of the selection criteria to broaden the circle of potential competitors. Of course, the competition remains open to proposals not only from Poland but from other countries, as well.

Program Director will be the one to coordinate the artistic and social development programmes for the city until 2016. He or she will be a key figure for the European Capital of Culture project deciding on how the culture and the city will look like for many years to come. Among other things, the future Programme Director will be required to posses skills in the fields of managing multinational teams, general management and quick decision-making skills.

CVs submitted by candidates must demonstrate their experience in scope of developing cultural concepts and concrete examples of successes in carrying out interdisciplinary projects. Experience in running international projects will be an asset.

Detailed information about the recruitment process can be found in the „Jobs” section at our website.

The deadline for application is January 6th, 2010.

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