Witkacy i inni — ile może pomieścić jeden Staś?
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The question “how much there is to Witkacy” accompanies reading the album from
“Witkacy and others” exhibition in Wilanów, that — as Piotr Sarzyński writes in his
review — “covers everything that linked Witkacy with photography”. The exhibition
and the catalogue are a large project which would not be possible if not for Stefan
Okołowicz and Ewa Franczak, owners of hundreds of photographs by Stanisław
Ignacy Witkiewicz. Their contribution to making Witkacy-the photographer a figure
in art history cannot be overestimated, and neither can their efforts of many years to
keep his photographic self-portraits in public awareness. It was Okołowicz who
showed the world Witkacy photographing. For thirty years, he has been collecting
his works: paintings, drawings, photographs. He published the album “Against
nothingness” and significantly contributed to the emergence of psychoholism. In his
recent project, he marked out his presence and his role in propagation of
Witkiewicz’s art more clearly than the previous time. He seemingly placed himself
aside. In fact, he put himself in the center of the whole project. He showed, as
Wojciech Nowicki put it in one of “Fundus’” essays, that photography cannot exist
without an archivist
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