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Where: Gallery Aferro, 73 Market Street, Newark, NJ
(a few blocks from the PATH station)
When:
Saturday, October 19th at
7:30PM
Admission is free
Presenting a 24-minute preview of Jan Sawka’s The
Voyage, a critically acclaimed performance of projected
artworks with the music of the Mickey Hart Band. This
preview will be followed by a Q&A with producer and director
Hanna Maria Sawka, who is also the late artist’s daughter.
Gallery Aferro is currently hosting a large exhibition of
Jan Sawka's paintings, prints and sculptures, titled
"Reflections on Everyman: The Work of Jan Sawka." The
screening will take place upstairs, in the
Media Room.
Currently in development, Jan Sawka’s The
Voyage is a
90-minute performance by the late, internationally acclaimed
artist Jan Sawka. This powerful visual journey, consisting
of 1200 hand-made paintings symbolically represents an
individual life as well as the greater story of humankind.
Every image used in The
Voyage is a
fine-art piece by Jan Sawka, who created a visual narrative
sequence.
A pilot
of Jan Sawka’s The
Voyage with
music and video editing by Czeslaw Niemen was awarded a Gold
Medal in Multimedia at the 2003 International Florence
Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 1989, Jan Sawka designed
the historic, 10-story tall fine-art set for the 25th anniversary
tour of the Grateful Dead, of which Mickey Hart was an
original member.
Additional information:
Jan
Sawka was born in 1946 in Poland. In 1977, he settled as a
political exile in New York, where he continued to work as a
painter, printmaker, set designer and sculptor. As a set
designer, he worked with Samuel Beckett and New York
off-Broadway theaters and he created large set designs and
projection installations for NASA, Steve Winwood and the
Grateful Dead. His work is in over 60 museums around the
world, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern
Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; Victoria
and Albert Museum, London,; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Isreali Museum, Jerusalem; and National Museum, Krakow,
Poland.
Mickey
Hart is one of the original members of the Grateful Dead.
Since the band’s dissolution following the death of Jerry
Garcia, Mickey Hart went on to develop his independent
career, which includes Grammy-winning recordings and
important charitable and cultural work. He has been
collaborating with the Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter
in creating the music of the Mickey Hart Band, which
released Mysterium Tremendum in 2012 and Superorganism in
2013. On October 11, 2011, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
released the ‘Mickey Hart Collection’ to preserve and
further the Grateful Dead percussionist’s endeavor to cross
borders and expand musical horizons.
Hanna
Maria Sawka is a film, television and theater director. She
has directed professionally for the theater and she is a
published author. Hanna has written and directed 5 short
films, on 35mm and digital, which enjoyed success at 14
festivals around the world. “Beyond Iconic: Photographer
Dennis Stock,” her critically-acclaimed portrait of Magnum
photographer Dennis Stock, will premiere on Dutch Public
Television in 2014 and is distributed to the educational
market by Alexander Street Press. Beside developing “The
Voyage,” she is currently producing a documentary film about
her late Father, Jan Sawka.
For
more information visit:
www.voyageproduction.com
www.jansawka.com
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