Bernhard Heisig: Die Wut der Bilder (Gniew obrazów)
17.02.06 - 02.04.06
The National Museum in Wrocław
pl. Powstancow Warszawy 5
tel. 071/ 372-51-50

The exhibition opening Friday 17.02.06 -18:00

Since 1990, iconographic controversy over the evaluation of GDR art has centred on the personality and work of the painter Bernhard Heisig, born in Breslau in 1925. At that time, the prevalent resentment towards “state artists” hampered our view of an ouvre that had already broken with the doctrine of Socialist Realism in the GDR during the 1960s - through images of doubt and despair in face of the physical and mental destruction that war had left behind in Germany. All his life, Bernhard Heisig has struggled to come to terms with the traumas of a biography that passed from war and dictatorship to a further dictatorship and the Cold War.
Showing more than 42 paintings and 20 litographies, this exhibition gives a comprehensive survey of the painter’s work.

Bernhard Heisig has never permitted himself to be distracted from his search for the subjective truth of war. 60 years after the capitulation of Germany, therefore, it is logical to see him as the German painter, who - like no other - made the madness of the past war into his theme.

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Kormorany composed and plays the music for the play “Book of Job” (Księga Hioba). Michał Litwiniec tells us about the band - Kormorany - and the composition and inspiration of the music for “Book of Job.”

Interview - bookofjob01.wav (WAV / 2:47 / 2.5MB)

You can also download the audio sample of the “Book of Job” here:
../../podcasts/bookofjob02.wav (WAV / 3:07 / 2.8MB)
This audio sample is recorded live and published with the permission of M. Litwiniec.

Księga Hioba (Book of Job)
from Saturday 11.02.06 till Monday 13.02.06 - 19:15
Współczesny (Contemporary) Theatre
(ul. Rzeźnicza 12, reservation: 071/ 358-89-22)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 2.5 License by Wrocław Weekly

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Chromosomos
10.02.06 - 20.00 (Friday)
FIRLEJ (ul Grabiszynska 56)
Tickets: 15zł & 20zł

The local eclectic Jazz quartet - Chromosomos - returns to Wrocław for the first time since last year’s concert with Skalpel. Their music is a mix of jazz, ethno, jungle, and progressive rock. In this concert, they will play not only the tracks from their last album - “Phonophobis” - but also some new compositions.

Artur Dominik - drums, electronics
Marcin Lamch - double bass
Łukasz Kluczniak - sax
Tomek Kasiukiewicz - trombone, electronics

You can check our previous Podcast entry to listen to their “Vitamins Jungle” from “Phonophobis” here

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After the concert at Firlej on 19.01.06, we met The Magic Carpathians Project and asked about their music and their evolution as a project. Here is what we found out:

It is “Magic” because they play hundreds of peculiar-looking ethnic instruments with a fantastic and peculiar sound. It is “Carpathian” because Anna Nacher and Marek Styczynski take their inspiration from traditional Carpathian mountain culture and environment.
They combine the sound of their various traditional instruments played by Marek with Anna’s electric guitar and powerful throat singing. The final product is “pretty wild,” says Anna, “We improvise a lot, so the music is always different.”
During their cooperation, which started in 1998, The Magic Carpathians Project has shifted away from folk-inspired world music towards more improvisational and experimental, even meditational sounds.
Anna remarks, “You do not only listen to sound with your ears. There are instruments that produce sounds you experience inside your body.” — alice

You can download the extract of “The Place I Come” from their last album “Sonic Suicide” here:
magiccarpathians01.mp3 (192kbp / 2.4MB / 1:41) — by courtesy of The Magic Carpathians Project

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