23.06.2022 - 9.07.2022
Klamerus Family Exhibition.
Mom Maria Klamerus
Extremely talented brothers.
Sculptors, painters, printmakers, poets, cartoonists - Growing from one source: the unique atmosphere of the mountains, combining great talents with family.
They say blood's thicker than Water, and certainly, the uniqueness of the talent accumulated in the Klamerus family confirms these words; despite this, however, each of them is a very individual and unique artist.
Piotr Klamerus
Piotr Klamerus comes from Zakopane, where he was born in 1957. He graduated from the Antoni Kenar High School of Fine Arts there. In the 1980s he was employed as a stage designer at the STU Theater in Cracow. He led to the realization of two original stage designs - for the play Earth, Earth directed by Adolf Weltschek in 1986, as well as for the performance Night by the KANA Theater from Szczecin in 1995. The main means of artistic expression, however, remains sculpture for Klamerus. He composes in wood, stone, and bronze. His beloved Podhale region itself seems to provide him with materials and inspiration. He specializes especially in small sculptural forms. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and a whole host of group exhibitions. Family motifs can be found in his art - for example, in a series of sculptures called Wladek, created after the death of his brother, who was one year older than him. His father's persona appears in the work Metamorphosis - it is because of this sculpture that Klamerus won the Grand Prix at the XI International Dante Biennale in Ravenna. He teaches at the Kenar High School of Visual Arts, as well as at Zakopane's "Jutrzenko". He and his family happily settled in Chocholow, where he creates and lives to this day.
Ryszard Klamerus
Ryszard Klamerus was born in Zakopane in 1949. He is a graduate of the Antoni Kenar High School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. He received a diploma in sculpture in the studio of docent Barbara Bienulis-Strynkiewicz. At that time he met his future wife, Renata. He directed and managed various cultural centers - the Cultural Center in Miasteczko Krajeńskie, the Municipal Cultural Center in Raba Wyżna, and the Wladyslaw Orkan Museum in Rabka. In addition to sculpting, he deals with graphic art - for example, he designed the badge, "Meritorious for the municipality of Raba Wyżna". Traces of his work are imprinted in Raba Wyżna - a monument to soldiers of the Home Army, Brzostow - there is a bust of Michal Drzymala, as well as in Rokiciny Podhalanskie - in the local Primary School there is a wall dedicated to the skier, Boleslaw Czech. In addition, he made a tombstone monument to his mother in the cemetery in Zakopane. His exceptional person was honored and distinguished by the Provincial Office in Nowy Sacz. He has long lived in Spytkowice, where he continues to bring art to life.
Renata Klamerus
Renata Klamerus was born in Bydgoszcz in 1946. Already as a child, books read by her mother awakened her literary curiosity and writing enthusiasm. She drew, kept a diary, and as a 16-year-old was already writing poems. She always carried within her the seeds of art and poetry, but they had to mature with time to germinate. When it came to choosing her studies, she hesitated between Polish Studies and the Academy of Fine Arts. Eventually, and by her own admission, unexpectedly, it fell on the Medical Academy in Lodz and the Faculty of Pharmacy there. After graduation, she married a sculptor from Zakopane, Ryszard Klamerus. After she served her apprenticeship at Bydgoszcz's largest pharmacy, she started running her own - St. Theresa's Pharmacy in Spytkowice. In total, she worked in the pharmacy for more than forty years. Surrounded by artists on all sides, she often supported their activities, especially her husband's, absorbing the spirit of inspiration herself. She designs jewelry. In 2004, she decided to publish a collection of her own poetry, which included works collected from the 1960s until the moment of publication. The saga of children's books, which begins with the volume There from the Land of Beautiful Horses, was a huge success both artistically and in publishing. The artist is also the author of illustrations for her fairy tales - she makes them using the collage method. Her latest literary project is the poetry volume Theatre of the Golden Branch.
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Julian Klamerus
Julian Klamerus was born in 1952 in Zakopane. At first, he was not eager to learn. In the fifth grade, thanks to Maria Jarzębowska, who taught geography, there was a real breakthrough in his education. Young Klamerus became fascinated by the Tatra Mountains, and it was then that his love of mountain climbing was born, only to blossom deeply later. He has climbed peaks in the Alps, and the Dolomites, and has Noszak in Afghanistan (7492 meters above sea level) behind him. He once attracted the attention of filmmakers with his skills - hence he can be seen in Zanussi's Illumination. He is an ethnographer by training but stresses that he is self-taught. A born storyteller. Communing with him, you get the impression that you have a real book of folk knowledge in front of you. He sculpts. Sometimes from found or broken objects. He is the creator of shrines in Krynica and on Walowa Gora in Zakopane. He paints. Primarily images of Christ and the Virgin Mary. He is sometimes compared to Nikifor Krynicki - according to the artist himself, rightly so. He likes challenges. He created a mural with saints in Nowy Targ, where he lives to this day. He cites the lives of the saints from memory. His special spiritual patron remains Brother Albert - the embodiment of mercy. He devotes himself to altruistic activities with unquenchable enthusiasm. For many years, despite various difficulties, he ran a shelter for the homeless. Care is united in the artist with spirituality. Klamerus is a man deeply immersed in the Christian faith, although, as he says, he came to it relatively late. He writes - poetry, he says - that when the urge strikes him, he writes down words on whatever he can find. He lives modestly, deriving wealth from art and closeness to others.
Władysław Klamerus
called Wladek by his relatives, begins his life on January 13, 1956, surrounded by the Zakopane Tatra Mountains. From the very beginning, he creates his own legend - if only by his endearing manner and distinctive clothes. People say that under his subtle beauty with bright eyes, there is great determination and a true spirit of bravery. At one year old, he infects himself with infantile paralysis urgency. From then on, he studies at a school combined with a sanatorium. However, he makes an over-ability out of his disability - wishing to become a mountaineer, he climbs rocks. He is able to joke about his own disability, which sometimes surprises others. He sees art in every little scrap of life. He dreams of sculpture. He is released from the sanatorium to attend the Antoni Kenar High School in Zakopane. Then he leaves for Warsaw. He begins studying at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. He used to say about himself that first of all, he is a sculptor. Various materials easily yield to his hands - he sculpts in clay, bronze, and stone. He composes textiles, assemblages, and creates stage sets. He is a man of great devotion to his work - when forging a work, he lets himself be absorbed by it. As one of the first, he recognizes the need to mark the Jewish presence in art. The result of this need becomes the monument at the Umschagplatz in Warsaw - a joint project by Klamerus and Halina Szmalenberg. He works at the School Sociotherapy Center - he conducts art classes with young people with drug problems. She is friends with Nika Strzeminska - she somehow identifies with her father, Władysław Strzeminski, sharing physical infirmity and opposition to the political system. He never limits himself to one technique - life itself puts artistic material under his nose. He designs stage sets. He likes to drink red wine and smokes lots of cigarettes. Sometimes he is bothered by everyday life, but never by the darkness in his soul. His colorful fate is imprinted on his famous sweater. He dies young, in 1992, but it is not his early death that makes him a legend. Vladislav Klamerus himself created his own legend - both with his personality and the unique art he created.
Bartosz Sawa Klamerus
Bartosz Sawa Klamerus was born in Bydgoszcz in 1975. Like his father, Ryszard Klamerus, he attended the Antoni Kenar High School of Visual Arts in Zakopane. He received his diploma from the Jan Matejko State High School of Visual Arts in Nowy Wisnicz. He primarily practices sculpture. As he says, he is deeply inspired by different cultural circles - he is especially fascinated by Africa and the culture of indigenous Indians. He says that through art he transports himself to the mentioned spaces. He mainly creates small sculptural forms, cast in bronze. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. Apparently, his talent was discovered by his uncle from a generation above - Wladek. Bartosz Klamerus remains an active member of the Association of Polish Artists to this day. He lives and creates in Zakopane.
Projekt Pokoleniowe Rodziny Artystów finansowany jest z programu sztuki wizualne 2022 MKIDZN
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