Exhibition of Jerzi Skolimowski on the 37th FEST

The 37th FEST will host the exhibition of paintings of the distinguished Polish Director Jerzi Skolimowski. Skolimowski shall present his works from the previous ten years. The oil on canvas exhibition will comprise some fifteen most big format important works of the Director.

The exhibition was organized in cooperation with Jerzi Skolimowski, Polish galerist Boguslav Vojtovic and the Fest Directorate and agreed upon at the Cannes Film Festival, where Skolimovski presented his new film Four Nights with Ana, opening the program Fifteen Author's Days. The film will be shown in the program Horizons on the 37th FEST.

The exhibition will be inaugurated by Skolimovski in person on Februar 21st, 2009 in the Kuca legata gallery, Knez Mihajlova 46. The exhibition will last until March 8th.

Jerzi Skolimowski has exhibited his works in Europe and the United States. He has taken part in the Venice Bienale and his paintings are comprised by many private collections in the US, Italy, France and Great Britain.

"Jerzi Skolimowski has been painting all his life, but as the majority of painters of the 20th century, he has turned to film as a form of expression. I saw his paintings for the first time a couple of years ago and I thought they were merely non-figural works. However, by observing more carefully, I have seen that his paintings were never completely abstract, that they always remain connected to the figure and the landscape. His plays always refer to man. Skolimowski is first of all a painter; painting is his solace in between two films, a solace with which he transcents filmmaking.

 

Julian Schnabel, painter and director