The ‘JAZZ FREE PHOTO 2017’ exhibition is now in Katowice – City of Gardens
Gallery 5 – Katowice City of Gardens, Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Institution, pl. Sejmu Śląskiego 2
Opening on Friday, 11 May at 6 p.m., exhibition until 1 July 2018
Exhibition prepared in cooperation with ZPAF. Curators: Piotr Spek, Andrzej Zygmuntowicz
The opening of the exhibition will be accompanied by a jazz recital by Tomasz Kołakowski
An exhibition of photographs and visual media works by participants of the nationwide JAZZ FREE PHOTO 2017 Photography Workshop, held as part of the 47th CHOJAZZ 2017 International Jazz Workshop in Chodzież in August 2017.
Fifteen renowned and emerging artists working in the field of photography and visual media accepted the invitation to participate in the plein-air event. Their works are presented at the exhibition: Wojciech Beszterda, Anna B. Gregorczyk, Tomasz Grzyb, Zofia Kawalec-Łuszczewska, Włodzimierz Kowaliński, Kasia Kalua Kryńska, Zdzisław Mackiewicz, Krzysztof Madera, Jowita Bogna Mormul, Paweł Opaliński, Kacper Spek, Piotr Spek, Jalanta Rycerska, Magdalena Wdowicz-Wierzbowska, Andrzej Zygmuntowicz.
Born in 1997. Hails from Bytom. Vocalist, saxophonist and master of ceremonies.
Student at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music. Multiple participant in the International Jazz Workshops in Chodzież and the International Jazz Workshops in Leszno
in the vocal and saxophone classes. In 2016, he took first place in the 4th National Spanish-Language Song Contest. More at tomaszkolakowski.pl
Piotr Spek:
[…] Photography is often compared to a mirror that reflects and simultaneously records reality – but is it really reality? Doesn’t it merely record the authors’ perceptions through their filters, becoming an improvisation of reality resulting from time, place and emotional state? Doesn’t the mirror of photography, through the viewer’s filter, become yet another perception of reality, an improvisation resulting from time, place and emotion?
The challenge of creating a ‘mirror of reality’ for the 47th CHO-JAZZ 2017 International Jazz Workshop was proposed to 15 photographers during the JAZZ FREE PHOTO 2017 National Photography Workshop.
Jazz was everywhere, and so were we – it was a pleasure for us to create ‘mirrors of reality’ together. We would like to thank our fellow musicians, the workshop organisers and the partners supporting the plein-air event – we hope that our mirrors of reality will be a good introduction to improvisation on the subject…
Andrzej Zygmuntowicz:
[…] Stay a while! What about the photos? Maybe tomorrow? Right now, I am immersing myself in sounds that purify me from worldliness. I am floating away on a flying carpet into Leśmian’s fairy-tale world. It was worth coming here. Will the photos tell the story of what happened here?
Will they show the emotions, excitement, joy and elation?
Inspired by their surroundings, people with cameras delved into the space of jazz as much as possible. The energy born in the space of music infected everyone, including the photographers. And through them, it entered the recorded images. Can this beautiful state of mind be recreated in an exhibition? I am strangely calm that it can. Jazz is a positive virus, so why shouldn’t those infected by it succumb to its influence?
