The Alliance française, in collaboration with the Instituto Polaco de Cultura in Madrid and the Association of Poles in Spain “Águila Blanca”, opens today at 7 p.m. the exhibition Chopin. Nocturnes by the Polish painter Wojciech Siudmak, curated by Małgorzata Kierzkowska. The exhibition can be visited at the headquarters of the Alliance française (Cuesta de Sto. Domingo, 13, Madrid) until 31 March. Free admission.
Polish painter and sculptor Wojciech Siudmak was born in 1942 in Wieluń (Poland). He has lived and worked in Paris since 1966. Siudmak is a magnificent creator of fantastic realism in painting. Throughout his career he won numerous prizes and awards for his work. Among others, he received, in Paris, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (March 1999) and the Grande Medaille d’Or avec Plaquette d’Honneur of the Académie des Arts-Sciences et Lettres (June 2013), as well as the Golden Hippolyte statuette (August 2014) and, recently, the Oxigenus statuette in Poznań.
In the painter’s own words, “the common denominator between the way 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. Chopin knew the classical measures of the architecture of form, but he used melody, and above all 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 in an algebraic way, as in Mozart’s pieces, but in an intuitive way, marked by emotions and a wonderful harmony”.
