On 28 May, the exhibition Nocturnes. Homage to Chopin, with original drawings by the Polish artist Wojciech Siudmak in the Sala Kioto 1998 of the Antiguo Hospital de Santa María la Rica in Alcalá de Henares. The exhibition can be visited until 27 June and has been organised thanks to the City Council of Alcalá de Henares, the Águila Blanca Association and with the collaboration of the Instituto Polaco de Cultura.
“The common denominator between the way in which Chopin expressed his spiritual experiences in the nocturnes and the inspirations taken from the nocturnes in my drawings is the unexpectedness of the measures they present,” says the author of the drawings. Chopin knew the classical measures of the architecture of form, but he used melody, especially harmony, in a new and unexpected way. His works are dominated by an extraordinary harmony, a fascinating cosmic order. The creation of sequences through the grouping of phrases in Chopin’s work is not done algebraically, as in Mozart’s pieces, but intuitively, marked by emotions and marvellous harmony.
