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“Just like the moon. The Poetic Life of Jerzy Harasymowicz” - Meeting with Alan Weiss
On June 29 this year The Nikifor Museum in Krynica-Zdrój held a meeting with Alan Weiss - philologist, author of a doctoral thesis and a book devoted to the life and work of the outstanding poet. The event accompanied the exhibition presented in the museum entitled "Harasymowicz at Nikifor's".
The author shared his extensive knowledge with the meeting participants, among others: less known aspects of J. Harasymowicz's life and work. He recalled the poet not only as the "Prince of the Land of Gentleness" or the "Poet of Krakow, the Bieszczady Mountains and the Sądecczyzna region", but also indicated works that were the artist's poetic reconciliation with the tragic contemporary history of his beloved Lemko region, also bearing traces of the poet's emotional conflict, creating at the intersection of Polish and Polish culture. Ukrainian, elements of both inherited from his ancestors played an important role in his work. He also talked about his personal contacts with P. Maria Harasymowicz, the poet's wife, who until the last days of her life was involved in all activities related to recalling the poet's achievements and preserving the memory of the poet. The lecture was illustrated with a presentation of archival photos by Jerzy Harasymowicz, and a short film was also played presenting a speech by Mrs. Maria Harasymowiczowa during her visit to the Nikifor Museum in 2015, when she talked about the poet's fascination with the Carpathians, the Sądecczyzna region and the Lemko region.
The ethnographer Zbigniew Wolanin, who led the meeting, talked about J. Harasymowicz's acquaintance with Nikifor, dating back to the poet's early youth. Harasymowicz greatly appreciated Nikifor's work and had great respect for the painter. Wolanin pointed to the mutual "complementation of the work" of the two most outstanding artists, for whom the fascination with the Lemko region became a source of creative inspiration. He also recalled Jerzy Harasymowicz's friendship with Tadeusz Szczepanek, former director of the Museum in Nowy Sącz, and the poet's visits to the Nowy Sącz museum at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
The president of the Polish Tatra Society, Jolanta Augustyńska, revealing her great recitation talent, read several beautiful poems by Harasymowicz, including the Nikifor Triptych, the most important of several poems the poet dedicated to the painter, and - at the end of the meeting - the iconic poem entitled "There is everything I love in the mountains", which is a version sung as an informal anthem of the mountain people.
The famous Lemko poet and regionalist Piotr Trochanowski / artistic pseudonym Petro Murianka / told about J. Harasymowicz's friendship with the Trochanowski family, whose family home in Bielanka the poet visited many times and recorded these stays and meetings with people in his poems. Murianka also read fragments of "Triptych." in my own translation into the Lemko language.
The president of the Polish Tatra Society, Jolanta Augustyńska, revealing her great recitation talent, read several beautiful poems by Harasymowicz, including the Nikifor Triptych, the most important of several poems the poet dedicated to the painter, and - at the end of the meeting - the iconic poem entitled "There is everything I love in the mountains", which is a version sung as an informal anthem of the mountain people.
The famous Lemko poet and regionalist Piotr Trochanowski / artistic pseudonym Petro Murianka / told about J. Harasymowicz's friendship with the Trochanowski family, whose family home in Bielanka the poet visited many times and recorded these stays and meetings with people in his poems. Murianka also read fragments of "Triptych." in my own translation into the Lemko language.
The poet's daughter, Sława Harasymowicz, conveyed warm greetings to the meeting participants. The artist, who is currently abroad, accepted the invitation of the organizers and announced her visit to the Museum.
An exhibition at the Nikifor Museum, conceived as an artistic meeting of the Master from Krynica, as Nikifor was called, with the Bard of Muszyna / this is how J. Harasymowicz was described by prof. Kazimierz Wyka/ will last until August 5.
By the way, another event accompanying the exhibition was announced, which will be organized soon - an educational trip "On the Trail of Nikifor and Harasymowicz in the Lemko region", which has already become a cyclical event of the museum.
Zbigniew Wolanin
The ethnographer Zbigniew Wolanin, who led the meeting, talked about J. Harasymowicz's acquaintance with Nikifor, dating back to the poet's early youth. Harasymowicz greatly appreciated Nikifor's work and had great respect for the painter. Wolanin pointed to the mutual "complementation of the work" of the two most outstanding artists, for whom the fascination with the Lemko region became a source of creative inspiration. He also recalled Jerzy Harasymowicz's friendship with Tadeusz Szczepanek, former director of the Museum in Nowy Sącz, and the poet's visits to the Nowy Sącz museum at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
The president of the Polish Tatra Society, Jolanta Augustyńska, revealing her great recitation talent, read several beautiful poems by Harasymowicz, including the Nikifor Triptych, the most important of several poems the poet dedicated to the painter, and - at the end of the meeting - the iconic poem entitled "There is everything I love in the mountains", which is a version sung as an informal anthem of the mountain people.
The famous Lemko poet and regionalist Piotr Trochanowski / artistic pseudonym Petro Murianka / told about J. Harasymowicz's friendship with the Trochanowski family, whose family home in Bielanka the poet visited many times and recorded these stays and meetings with people in his poems. Murianka also read fragments of "Triptych." in my own translation into the Lemko language.
The president of the Polish Tatra Society, Jolanta Augustyńska, revealing her great recitation talent, read several beautiful poems by Harasymowicz, including the Nikifor Triptych, the most important of several poems the poet dedicated to the painter, and - at the end of the meeting - the iconic poem entitled "There is everything I love in the mountains", which is a version sung as an informal anthem of the mountain people.
The famous Lemko poet and regionalist Piotr Trochanowski / artistic pseudonym Petro Murianka / told about J. Harasymowicz's friendship with the Trochanowski family, whose family home in Bielanka the poet visited many times and recorded these stays and meetings with people in his poems. Murianka also read fragments of "Triptych." in my own translation into the Lemko language.
The poet's daughter, Sława Harasymowicz, conveyed warm greetings to the meeting participants. The artist, who is currently abroad, accepted the invitation of the organizers and announced her visit to the Museum.
An exhibition at the Nikifor Museum, conceived as an artistic meeting of the Master from Krynica, as Nikifor was called, with the Bard of Muszyna / this is how J. Harasymowicz was described by prof. Kazimierz Wyka/ will last until August 5.
By the way, another event accompanying the exhibition was announced, which will be organized soon - an educational trip "On the Trail of Nikifor and Harasymowicz in the Lemko region", which has already become a cyclical event of the museum.
Zbigniew Wolanin
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